Thursday, February 20, 2025

More incoming cards. This time borrowing from Mark: Flea Market finds

 Probably need to post a few of these Incoming from bloggers/trader next week to get caught up. Meanwhile, last weekend I went to one of the local flea markets. I hadn't been since right after I got back home from Georgia. After two years I figure let's just see. There were probably 6 or 7 vendors with baseball cards....maybe a couple more. That in and of itself shocked me. I was figuring that I'd see a a couple. They were pretty all over priced crap. Like 10 for a penny cards charging a buck, yeah not for me. I actually walked every aisle looking at everything. Didn't buy a thing....that is until I got to the very last row. Three table outside no cover with a variety of mainly older antique like items, but I spotted some cards and comics.







Nearly the complete set, plus there were plenty of dupes. I think there were 50+ in all, and after a couple minutes of negotiating regarding the card set below I made a deal and these 1979 Topps comics were free. He initially wanted $5.00 which I would have gladly paid anyways, but I wanted the set below and wanted it for a better price. That my friends is the Art of the Deal (on a much smaller scale of course). 




These cards were in a binder (which I got too), but these 1934 German Tobacco cards were not in order, and there was a slew of them. I don't read German, but these Pre-War cards were interesting. He wanted $40.00 for the binder, we settled on him throwing in the comics.



After researching and figuring out what the set was I found the set contained 252 mini cards, and I got them all but 6 cards. They are basically military depictions of the old army. Old is the key word there, you can tell what I mean by the pictures, lol. Anyways. They are now in order and sitting in a box of non-sport cards waiting for me to get some more of those square pocket pages. They'll be fine in the box. I did wind up making one more purchase after the $40.00. It was on the very first row of the flea market on my way out I bought not one but two bags of some Cajun boiled peanuts... mmmh mmmh good!.


Thanks go out to San Jose Fuji for borrowing his theme for a post. 

Have a great weekend everyone.


5 comments:

  1. Glad you were able to get out there and walk around the flea market.

    A. Just added hitting up a flea market in Florida to my bucket list.

    B. The 1979 Topps Comics are awesome! Obviously 70's Kellogg's are my favorite oddball issues of the decade, but if they didn't exist... these wrappers would be right up there with Hostess cards.

    C. Cajun boiled peanuts sound amazing!

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  2. The comics are cool and the peanuts would be enjoyable. Thanks for the PWE I got today with the free card I chose and the three added AU's were fantastic! That made my day. Thanks Johnny.

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  3. Great finds. Those cartoons are pretty rare, great deal you got.

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  4. Love the '79 Comics. I've got to start finding time to hit flea markets more often. Problem is when I have the time, it's always too hot in Texas!

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  5. Good stuff! It may be me, but it seems like any time there's some sort of artistic rendering of Yaz, it never looks like him..

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