Made it up to the Ephrata show again this year. Since the Dulles Expo Center has been sold, the 3-per-year Chantilly show isn't happening until the fall when their new mall building renovation is complete. So this may be the biggest show I get to for a while. Ephrata is halfway between Lancaster and Reading and is still an hour and a half from the new Hivemind HQ, even though I'm farther north.
The show is largely vintage cards, which is more of a rarity these days. I concentrated on my two 60's set builds, but still got a few other player collection things and some stuff for Angela too.
They always have one signer - this year was Penn State star Lavar Arrington. I might have had him autograph something Redskins, but passed. I still haven't really seen where they do the signing in the building. It's not near the show floor.
On to the loot. Found a couple more Jordan Addisons for my PC. The Vikings picked up his fifth year option.
Mahomes was one of the last two inserts I need for 2019 Score completion. (The other is the Josh Allen Signal Callers.) Brady is a promo for the 2005 Throwback set. Been looking for that for a while. Figured I better grab it even though it was five bucks. His stuff will probably only get worse that way.
Some interesting additions to my baseball PCs. The Sutter was the first parallel for his 2021 Chrome Platinum Anniversaries. The other three were the only things I got from my usual insert guy, who lives near the show but I've seen him just about everywhere else but there. He only had the current year Heritage, flagship, and Bowman.
Was hoping to find a few obscure Phillies issues of Puddin' Head Jones, but only found this playing card. Bake is from the 1978 SSPC set, which I still need a lot of my other PC guys from.
The fancy parallel Brett Favre from the top is here with the rest of his that I got for quarters or dollars for Angela. We just got a 230 count trade of all Bretts this past week, (thanks Jake Gepner from TCDB) so his numbers are soaring. Had to put him in his own 3" binder already.
The Manning brothers made a brief appearance in those same boxes. I'm still educating Angela on the distinctions between refractors and x-fractors etc. She does like shiny.
On to my vintage builds. Struck three of the checklist variations for 1961 Topps. The first two have differences on the back, and the third is Aparicio's name as highlighted in red.
I had just traded for a 4th series checklist as well, but unfortunately, neither one of them will likely be the final resident of my set.
The one I got at the show turned out to have creases on the top corners....
And the one I traded for had been marked and erased. The previous owner had alerted me to this ahead of time. If anyone wants one for their collection, let me know.
Moving to 1963, these are all high number short prints. Felt good to find most of these for half or less of the typical $15 price tag without being in lousy condition.
The rookies are the variations with either '62 or '63 up top. I have the other flavors already. Maris looks so sad, I'm not sure why. Herzog and McDaniel were a couple of the low series I hadn't found good copies of until now.
And finally, I got a bargain on Roberto, and the only catch is the small crease through the top of his hat, and a pencil mark in the upper part of the inset circle that rubbed off pretty decently. I'll take it for two digits instead of three.
And that wraps up my show haul. Not sure when the next show will be, but it will probably be one of those where half the tables have Pokémon, which is fine. See you then!
Nice vintage pickups. Maris was still recovering from the pressure of the '61 HR chase. By all accounts it took a lot out of him mentally.
ReplyDeleteThe '61 checklists are beautiful, some of my favorite vintage cards.