Okay another week has flown by, then again I know exactly what I did all week. That was a lot of work and to think I still have plenty to do.
Let us get to the cards from the "Last but not Least" binder.
Have a great weekend and may your Holidays be blessed!
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?
Then there was this oddly minor league insert cards I assume from Heritage minors from recent past (not the current year).
I found this scan sitting in the files, and my best guess is that I was going to dig up a bunch of them (90's inserts) and make a theme (run of posts).
Mets are up to bat.
I guess stating that the Mets were up to bat was misleading as there was only 1 bat card and I already pulled it out. Another short one next with Nationals.
I feel the title is an appropriate one as this is part two of the Bubble Gum Franken-set. I would like to make mention of something that I should have stated with the previous bubble gum post. When I started collecting them about 10 years ago, I gathered up whatever sport was showing the gum. I have whittled them down to just BASEBALL cards. Although when I redid the binder for this series I found three that didn't belong. I have (as of the scanning of the binder) 252 baseball bubble gum cards. I do have a little stack building that I'll need to check against my list in the New Year. I also just today got a PWE from the Bob of "The Best Bubble" blog. BTW he has over 1200 counting all the sports (I was never close to that before I dispersed the non baseball..... maybe 400 tops). Bob had my list so I can bet I got some new to me ones (now they might be in that stack I'm building).
Let's get get the next 44 cards out.
Alrighty then. Time to pick the winner of the night. With that said round 1 obviously has to go to Bevacqua. Even though several others were in the running.... sort of. Who will win round 2?
I'd also like to address the giveaway winners from last week. I said there would be three randomized winners. There were only 4 commenters one of which I had already decided to send some of those style cards to. So Mark you have some mixed in the stacks I'm building for you. That leaves Jeremy who will be here tomorrow to gets his and I'll mail out Sharp and RJ cards to them.
Next Monday is Christmas and I have my annual tidbit to do. Likewise the following week Monday January 1st will also have an annual post to get done leaving three weeks for Bubble Gum #3.
You may remember last week I told y'all that I broke this binder up after I listed and scanned everything. We are now on the 2 round so here we go.
As mentioned last week the 2012 and 2023 Museum sets are the only completed sets from this run so far. I have a needs list on my Set Builds under the Topps category for the rest.
I completely forgot about these cards I pulled out of the dime boxes at Ormond last time. (Remember that $20.00 3K count monster box?)
Here I was thinking Upper Deck was DONE with baseball cards, let alone Skybox and Metal Universe. Do you remember those guys/sets? How about this set: 2022 UDC Skybox Metal Universe Champions set. It is a multi sport product. I pulled these baseball out plus I also grabbed the female athletes for a buddy in California.
Rules for the freebies: 1) be a follower of this blog and comment on this post before midnight December 16th. I will randomize the qualifiers a few times and the top three spots will get 6 cards each from the last two scans (seen above).
