The post office tends to "save up" trade mail and packages for Mondays. The Monday after the second show weekend in a row was especially fruitful. I had all this waiting in the box or by the door.
Most of it is trades from the Database, but one was an eBay purchase.
The late 80's are to finish a few sets I have for sale that ran short. It's nice to be able to just trade extra stuff for them. I'm probably going to end up with extras of the last few I need for '89 at least. The '09 black Topps are for my Update set build. Still annoyed that they didn't make whole blasters of these at the time.
This is the second half of that trade from BigOinPA. Some Capitals and Sabres. The latter are not the regular base set, but special team sets numbered out of 20.
TCDB trader RangerFreak94 contributed all this to set builds. Anyone need a Pete Rose? I'm ending up with four or five extras. The basketball card was a nice try, but not going to make that set. All the other football is for set builds, except Sam and Richie. Anderson is a PC, and that one is the blue back retail flavor.
He also chimed in with hockey. A couple Fedorovs and a Manon Rheaume for my PCs, more Finests for the Premier set, one OPC base hit, and more recent Caps.
The other large package contains two parts of an epic trade with SirNailhead. The guy has been on quite a life journey, and has set me on one to gather another Heritage set. We swapped almost 300 cards one-for-one. My side was all 2023 Heritage - the '74 design. I figured why not? The first cards I ever owned were '74s. So even though I only recognize about 20% of the fellows pictured, I went for it. (I might do another post to see what the actual percentage is like I did before.)
Glad I don't have to find the Ohtani. And there was at least one of the "other Aaron" Specials included too.
The flat rate box is the eBay purchase. I'm going to save that reveal for the next post. But I'll give you a hint ~ One of my other pages has been revived. Go there and check out the last two entries. (They're the only ones linked to full images.) More on both of those in the next one.
Thanks to all three traders, and to you for tuning in....
Someone you know completed the 2023 Heritage set and has just a few extras living in a closet.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I have some 23' laying around too.
ReplyDeleteNice to see another hockey card collector. I wish I had known you (and any others) collected 90's hockey back in the early 2010's. I had purchased a decent sized collection at the flea market (mainly for some inserts and the Sharks). I let my buddy pick through them as well... but the rest was taken to Goodwill. Although I don't really go out of my way to find hockey, I still pick up some here and there. The next time I do, I'll try to remember to compare them to your wantlists.
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