January and February was very busy.

 January and February was a very busy month for me. I went to Jacksonville 3 days in Feb. One day was at Fred's house, the next day was at the Jacksonville Sports card shop (he hosts the shows), and the third day was for the Feb. show that was a week later than normally. I also went to that card shop in Leesburg, made to two trips over to Ormond Beach, and I went to the quarterly card show in The Villages (Jan). To top that off I started a new Franken-set (technically it is two in one) don't worry it is still in the formation period. I also started one of those Bigger projects I set once I came back home from GA. My Braves display shelves. That I gave my self 3 months to complete. Five weeks in and I did all that I can do for now (I ran out of supplies). I have to finish with years 2019-2024. That was a big deal as I had to strip all of the binders that I had of Braves, empty all of those boxes I accumulated while in GA. Comingle them together and then resort them by year then set and re-page them. Previously, my Braves were bindered by "brand". I am happy to say now they are by year. I will miss some of the pluses from the "old way", but all in all I needed to do this. I will break out the details whenever I get new supplies and finish the task complete with a few pictures.

From all of the "trips" I took I have quite a bit to get scanned and posted. Tonight I will start with The Villages card show. I only made one purchase. Rather one bundle of purchases from one seller. I bought from this guy before, never cards, but vintage sports board games.

The first thing that caught my eye was this vintage stadium giveaway. It is not in the best condition but when I asked how much he said $10.00 I had to have it.

In the glass case below the fan there was this stack of "baseball guides". On top of them was a book.

Eight stars on the cover including two Braves (Dale Murphy and Hank Aaron), throw in Ruth, Mays, Reggie, Mantle, and Schmidt.....I had to look.

That is when I realized I never heard of "Kessler". I was intrigued. I grabbed the stack.

Turns out Kessler was a distillery that made whiskey. 

Nice little run of years there. I asked how much he wanted $50.00 firm (included the books below too).

Orel is a PC guy (we share the same birthday). It's a Christian magazine, and I didn't know White Castle had a baseball almanac. Of course down here in the south Krystal's is the preferred of the two.

There was some baseball cards in this case too, and something caught my eye. You'll have to wait until the end to see what that was. I grabbed it up and put it in my stack and asked how much? He said he didn't know and would need to go ask one of the vendors who was a full time card dealer. He came back and gave me a price on that and totaled everything up so far to $100.00 A hundy, but you know me I want to feel like I got a really good deal so I told the guy he have to throw some stuff in. 

These were in one of those nicer 50 count plastic boxes. I didn't open it and figured it was complete. My brain wasn't thinking (oh...it was definitely complete). There were actually 4 complete sets inside. I found that out after I got home and was going through the stuff. I know that I probably have the complete set for my PC guys, but I'm not 100% well I am now and in fact I can put a card in each of the guys PC's. 22 of the 24 are PC guys. So to cover myself I am putting two of these sets in the PC boxes to make sure that I have both guys covered, and one set will go into the coca-cola binders, yes I have binders of coke cards and there are a lot of card sets.

I grabbed up these two boxed sets and had the dealer throw them in too. I knwo I have some singles of Braves and PC guys, now I know I have the 1994's covered. Kraft also did a 93' set too.

Now for the baseball cards that CLOSED the deal for me. 

A complete set of 69' Deckle Edge. I have most of these cards in my PC guys, but I was also putting together a set for my 69' Topps binder. The checklist above was not in this guy's set nor was the Hoyt Wilhelm. The Jim Wynn was. Wynn is the variation, not Hoyt. I seen the set was complete with the 33 cards and the 3 key cards (SPs) were in there Rose, Mays, and Clemente. The guy came back from his dealer friend and said it was complete but no variations (I disagree). He said $40.00 and I was like DONE, let's put a fork in this and I am outta here. I knew I had the Hoyt at home, he was sitting on top of my "stack" of this set I was working on and literally would see it everyday. So now I only need the Joe Foy variation. It books between $5-12.00. The cheapest decent one on ComC tonight is $12.00. I looked up the pricing on the Rose, Mays, and Clemente on Beckett.

Pete Rose: $30-80

Willy Mays: $75-200

Roberto Clemente: $60-150.

Now I checked those out ComC too. The Rose can be had for about $10.00 in good conidition, the other two are a bit pricey even there. So considering this set is excellent condition I know I got a good deal at $40.00 on it. Very happy with the fan too. The Kessler books I could go on living without them, but I had never seen/read, or heard of them before and they kind of compliment my breweriana collection (yes I have one of those too).

There you go, very busy.