More on what I said

 Okay, well maybe on a couple of things I've mentioned as of late.

1) The 90's insert thing. Seems like there is enough interest or at least curiosity for me to put together a series like I had planned but forgot. It won't be in the immediate future though. I will work on it a little bit at a time building several posts worth to last a while. 

2) The 100,000 card pick up. Several things here. Turns out when there are apx. 2500 cards in protectors/top loaders not as many cards. Looks to be somewhere between 75-80,000 cards. Thirty two monsters boxes. That was a pick up for me to have fun with (whatever that may mean). The protected cards were definitely for my collection. There were 41 cards from Kyle's $5.00, two from the $10.00 box with the rest hand picked out of his dollar boxes. If you consider the entire lot as individual cards then I paid a penny each. With that said, the 2500 cards for my collection made up half of the total expense. In reality the 75K+ cards were almost 2 for a penny.... almost. 

    The dime-box cards as the are commonly called were a mix of pretty much all sports, like that lot I bought for that dealer before, just double the boxes for the same money I paid for those. It took me 4 and 1/2 days to sort them into their sport while pulling cards that I wanted as well as for other people. For me I was pulling set needs, PC guys, Braves, and mini collections. I also sorted the baseball by set....sort of. There is apx 5K of series 1, 5k of series 2, and 3k of 2023 Topps Update. Another 3K in Topps Chrome and several hundred Chrome Update. The cards are basically from 2020-2023 maybe 95% of them. This goes for all sports. 

Tonight I will provide you an appetizer from the dime cards (probably should call them penny cards huh)? Just a teaser because there is a lot of work just to scan up some of those to last for many posts. Just the baseball at that. No I won't be scanning them all maybe a few hundred to scatter around from time to time. 

Now for anyone interested in Hockey, Soccer, Basketball, Racing, Football, UFC, and Tennis by all means let me know. I really have no use for them so trading them away for peanuts (I have to cover shipping). Would be more shipping friendly for me to do a medium flat rate box (1800-2400 cards) at apx. $18.00 shipping. That would be ideal to get $20.00 worth of Braves needs (even a single $20 card), or $20.00 worth of set build needs. I only need 200,000 Braves and probably more in set needs. Better yet how $20 cash (not paypal) for a blaster consisting of 2K cards give or take. 

Now why did I buy that mess and bust my butt sorting them (4 1/2 days)? I'll tell you (sort of). When I got to Kyle's shop last Thursday the dime box table was a mess. Cards out of boxes scattered all over the place. I had been through them a couple of times already, but they just fill in the gaps with new stuff so you have to poke through them every time. I immediately said UGH, and started "cleaning" the area up. While, putting cards back into the boxes one card caught my eye. I looked at it for a moment and said eh and put into a box. I spent over 6 hours in the shop hand picking those dollar cards and ALL DAY LONG customers, workers, and Kyle was talking about a specific card. In my head I am thinking the card that caught my eye might be it. It would be a thousand dollar base card if it is. Well, I finished up going/sorting the boxes Tuesday while Jeremy was here pulling set build needs. I did NOT find the card and I know damn well I seen what I seen and put it in the box. So I have gotten about half way through flipping through them again. I prioritized what I have gone through as that would be the quickest way to find the card I overlooked. Still NADA, Pretty sure it ain't in the racing, soccer, ufc, and tennis boxes. But it doesn't mean it wasn't stuck as I quickly ran through the cards on the original sort. So I knocked out the baseball and keepers stuff, now I have to go through the football and basketball cards again. I know the cards is these boxes somewhere. If and when I find it, I will certainly post it and let you all know about the card even if it isn't the thousand dollar card I suspect it is. 

Ready for dime-box I mean penny finds?

This card caught my eye while sorting. I knew the base color of the Authentix set was silver. I was like oh cool it is a gold parallel just not of a guy I collect.

When I turned the card over and seen it was numbered to 5 I was blown away. I have already mailed it out to someone.... call it a Christmas present.

Then there was this oddly minor league insert cards I assume from Heritage minors from recent past (not the current year).

Those definitely get your attention, at least it got mine. The backs are great as well.

Okay that was just the appetizer for what is to come once I get some more of them scanned. A week from today I'll post on some of the $5.00 box cards (half) and 1 of the $10.00 cards. I will say that I only paid $2.00 each for those. A smidgeon less actually ($80.00 for all 43 cards).