Fred's table part 2

 As usual I grabbed a handful of cards from my buddy Fred. 

As per Fred's usual he gave me at no cost a 400 count box of Topps Series 1 and Opening Day. (I was hoping for Big League, Bowman, and Donruss). Maybe next month. Fred always leaves the stars, parallels and inserts in there. I appreciate them. Now with the Braves, I needed the purple Freeman, the Elite Pache, the mojo Pache, and the silver pack Freeman. The rest I already had. 

I grabbed some non sports vintage with the Gun Smoke and Brady Bunch, and the Presidential candidate cards. The Marilyn Monroe cards were not vintage. they are modern earring backer cards, lol. 

Super steal on the Jordan.

The Bart swatch card cost me .75. As did the Sisler proof and Williams framed card. I was especially happy to get the Griffey inaugural Marlins card for .75. I'll finish up Fred's card tomorrow. 

Jax card show

 I was able to head over to Jacksonville for the monthly card show. Normally, I would stay until the show was over, but I headed back at 11am. It's not that there wasn't much there. There was plenty. Too many people early on kept me uneasy for some reason. I hit up my normal tables starting with Fred, then Daryl, Eddie, and made the walk around twice. I was done when my hip started giving me a fit. 

I made basically 4 purchases and plan on spreading them out over the course of this month. Fred first.

I seen this sheet of oddball's from 1992 Cartwright's. I already own the Justice the only Braves. All but one of the cards are PC guys, so why not for a buck. I have the Gold base Maddux from 1994 and the rarer Blue too. 

The cards have backs too. No way am I storing this sheet so I broke the individual cards from there prison.

Here are the eight PC guys (includes the Justice I already owned). I put in a normal card so you can see how well I did cutting them out. I think I did well and proud of that. I was thrown off at first because of the gold border on the sheet. I cut the cards as if the gold was supposed to be on the cards. Quickly realizing that they're too big. I then compared to a normal card and said ahhh..... no gold the cards are black. I cut them all again and bingo, right on the money. I'll have so more from Fred tomorrow. I wound up with just over a 100 cards from Fred.

To honor your mom and your better half

 That is if you have a better half, if not then just for your mom (or grandma) or anyone else who deserves praise on this day. Bless them and love them (everyday). I lost my mom 7 years ago last month. I miss her everyday. She was a remarkable woman and my hero. Just amazing, I miss you mom. And no, I'm not staying out of trouble :).

God bless those mama's!

Cinco de Mayo

 Don't drink the water but the cerveza's are okay. 

Mr. Warren celebrates his birthday on this day. He has a grand total of 24 different baseball cards covering his 7 years in the minor league. Yes, there are several other players that share this birthdate. I am just too lazy to pull out any other cards and this one is sitting in the scan file under "Cinco".

My the Fourth be with you. LOL.

 I haven't posted since last Wednesday. All is well, just prioritizing other stuff this past week. I hope to head to Jax. for a card show this coming Saturday. Meanwhile, When I went back home last month for that card show (the one with all of the Fleer vintage), I also picked up some Star Wars stuff. Initially, I had my nephew in mind as he is a huge fan. 

Two carry cases with figures.

There were also more dupes than the ones in case 2. I bagged them (about 20-30 of them). 

Not really sure what I am going to wind up doing with these. Most of the figures appear to be from The Empire Strikes Back.

The Learning curve.

 While cruising the aisles at the card show back home. I stumbled across the Canseco from this set. The seller then flipped to a folder with 35 of the cards from the set in it. I made an offer on the lot, but forgot the Canseco laying on the side. My bad. The set has 55 cards total. (I think).

These are the keepers (PC) from the lot. 24 out of 35 not bad. I regret forgetting the Canseco laying off to the side. Oh well. I should be hitting the road back to Valdosta in the morning so I doubt I will have a Thursday post.

Fleer Laughlin Black backs.

 As I promised here are the Black Back Laughlin's from 1971. 

Not a lot to say here.

I was able to get an even bigger stack of these. Like the blue backs, I now have plenty of dupes.  I have put a want list for the needed cards under set builds and misc.

I have another post from the Villages card show, but they are not Fleer, nor vintage. Interesting yes.

Fleer Laughlin 1970 Blue backs

 I was very happy to grab the stack of these blue backs.

I already had a bunch of these so I now have dupes.

I'll be really glad to close these Blue Backs out as well as the 71' Black backs.

Although completing these two means my next target is the elusive 67's Laughlin's (black & white).

I've got a feeling I won't find many cheap ones (the 67's) out there.

Hope enjoyed these. I'll have the 71's up tomorrow. I'll be in North Carolina, so the post might be a little later in the evening.

1961 Fleer

 I grabbed a stack of these 61' Fleer. All had a dollar price tag on them with the exception of two ($3, $5). No dupes in the stack. Made a low ball offer on the stack and got it.

This one was priced at $1.00

Turned out I needed 15 of the 23, and of the 8 dupes all are either PC guys or upgrades. $15.00 for the lot! That's half of the asking price. 

Have a great weekend. I am heading to North Carolina next week so not sure about any posts as of right now. I figure I'll get the Laughlins blues & blacks done before I go. That will cover a couple of posts.

Vintage Fleer 2

 Going with the Quiz cards this go around. These range from 69-72. 

These are often called Tall Boys as they are a little taller than a standard baseball card.

Here you can see it next to a regular card. 

These have no official checklist as they were inserted into the packs as "stabilizers"

For me using the web page I linked yesterday, these are easy to pick apart with the exception of the 72's which are the last 4 cards here without a team logo.

I have 9 of the 72's. The rest I've already figured out which are which, so I'm good regardless of TCDB "winging it" as they reported to me. Most of the "quiz cards" are easy to identify using the link. The 69's 70's and 71's have 1 or two cards per team with either 2 or 3 questions that vary. I've made my differences and placed them in the sets according to my research. TCDB is AFU on their 71's. Their 69's is pretty good. 

Next up some more Vintage Fleer that I haven't mentioned yet.

Heavy on Fleer

 Saturday I drove back home for a card show. I was able to spend a little time with one of my daughters and my grandson. That alone made it a great trip. The Villages card show is only 3x per year usually, and I missed that first one this year. I was bummed that I missed that one as I was all set to pick up several partial 50's sets. Turned out, I didn't miss a thing. That particular seller was there this time too, and he had his partial sets in binders out. Problem.... he had quadrupled his usual pricing. That was not a good start to this show. In fact I didn't buy a ton of cards. I did manage to scoop up some vintage. Fleer out the wazzu. I'll spread these out all week and into next week.

I'll lead off with just the Braves additions.  Both Braves logo & monogram 1970 Fleer Patches.

Here we have some 1970 Fleer World series (Laughlin- blue backs). Turns out I only needed one of these to complete my Braves team needs for this set. I bought a stack of these and the 1971 Black backs too. Lots of dupes. I also grabbed a ton of the patches and quiz cards too. Fleer released these sets from 69-72.

I added two more 54' Red Man Braves and 1 53' (Pafko) who isn't in the greatest shape, but the price was reasonable for them.

A view from the back.