This Is Why We Mark 'Em Non-Machinable

Made a trade last week with TCDB user tntcardsstg (Trevor from Bump And Run Football blog) for 25 cards.  20 of them were for Angela - mostly Eli Manning, a Brett Favre and a John Riggins.

I get the daily USPS emails that show what mail is coming that day.  There was a picture of the mailpiece there, but it didn't appear in my mailbox.  But the postal gal (I could tell by the handwriting) said contact them to verify that it was mine.  It looked like this:

It probably was marked "non-machinable", but we all know they try to put it through anyway.  This one lost so much of the envelope that there was no destination or return address left at all.  I'm guessing it just arrived stacked between the other couple trades I got that day.

Here's the envelope, or what was left of it.

Luckily, the cards were fine.  I showed the gal at the post office the TCDB trade page when I went to pick them up.  It was the perfect way to verify where they were supposed to go.  I should have said that any stray packages of cards are probably mine, but who knows?

Thanks Trevor!  Looking forward to the next round!

I don't blame him for anything.   This just happens now and then.  Glad they made it OK.

Night Owl Knows Rock'n'Roll

Well, I'm back into trading on TCDB, and pretty heavily at that.  I posted that I had passed the milestone of my 500th trade on there, and got over a dozen new offers in the same week!.  At one point I had 21 active trades going and a handful of offers pending behind them.  

Plus, I got most of my collection back into the proper places - cabinets, shelves, closet, etc.  There will be another post on the card room soon.

So among all that, I've blown like three weeks between posts here.  I've got a couple ideas for posts after this one, so hopefully I don't forget them before I get 'em up.

Meanwhile, I had the images from this mailday ready to go, so that's what you're getting today.

Night Owl sent me this one that I kinda gushed over for my player collection:

It's the Archives black parallel.  I probably would have a hard time finding this one in the wild.

The rest of the package threw me off for a while.  I thought he had tossed in some random RockCards, which I had already completed a while ago.

I was like, "that's nice, but I have all those."

But then I turned them over....

They were all consecutively numbered, and had a 1990 copyright date.

There was a Megadeth sticker too, shown here with the last card in the set.

When I compared it to the sticker I already had, it was different in that it had the band name across the bottom.

The one in the regular set does not.

I looked them up on the database, and these are the complete set of promo cards for the Brockum RockCards.

Whoa!  Thanks Night Owl!

Here are the rest of them - Mötley Crüe and Aerosmith

Rock on collectors!

Fuji Sticks It To Me

Another quick loot post, this time from my west coast man Mark at Chronicles Of Fuji.  He texted me a while back and became the first blogger to send me stuff at the new Hivemind Headquarters.

A very Washington centric payload, and a lot of them were very fancy!

OK, the Action Packeds aren't that fancy, but they're still cooler than regular cards.  Contrast them with the two more current autographs, though.  Sweet!

 Not one, not two, but three encased Topps Pristine 'Skins!  You don't see those, or any other encased cards very often!

But the coolest thing Fuji included was this vintage stamp album.  I've seen these before, and have several of the four-stamp panels that includes 'Skins guys, but this was even better than all of those....

It included all the stamps!  Can't say the application was the best, but they're all in there!

Thanks to Fuji for all the additions to the 'Skins collection.

Bo Blazes, Priest Performs, and Sheena Shines

Just a quick mailday post from a couple weeks ago when Gavin from BBC Breakdown fulfilled a request I had a year or two back.  As you've probably seen, he does some cool custom work.

Five different finishes on a silhouette version of that iconic Bo Jackson Score card with the shoulder pads and baseball bat.  I arranged them in pretty much the order that I like them, although the last one is cooler than last place...

A Santa-ized and framed piece featuring another PC of mine.  The Topps All-American card looks like the hat was there when they printed it.  I'm glad it's on a hanger thingy, because it would be hard to add to the binder being oversized as it is.

And finally, the one I was most looking forward to.  The rainbow flowers fit this card very well.  Before I discovered the sound of metal guitars, Sheena was my first favorite singer.  She's got a few trading cards, but this one is the hottest image.

Thanks to Gavin for all his work! 

 

Slaying The Exorbitant Price Dragon

As I'm settling into the new house, I'm finally getting the card room up to a functioning level.  Angela has even started a collection of her own - Peyton Manning, but only in a Denver uniform.  I pulled out a binder for her and went to put some pages in it.  We had to dig a bit to find the 1.2 boxes of Ultra Pro pages I had left.  That's enough for a while, but I hadn't checked on the current price for a while.  To my horror, Amazon lists 100-count boxes of Ultra Pro Platinum pages at about $26 each.  This is like $7 more than I'm used to seeing.  

I searched around and couldn't find a better deal until I came across a gaming site called Noble Knight Games.  They had boxes of 125 pages for the same $19.95 here.

I got three.  Hadn't seen this type of packaging before.  I'll let you know if they're any different.  Unfortunately, at press time they are out of stock, and rightly so.

Currently, they have 100-count boxes at the same price here.  Or $2 less for gently used.  Check them out if you need sheets.