Tale Of The Tape: TCDB

Well, if not for the Ephrata show, I'd have slacked off here for another whole month.  Too much going on with the new house, the old house, trades and everything else.  Anyway, enough complaining...

 

 

Made a rare purchase on the Database a couple weeks ago with Frank, aka RockyCola.  He sent a whole list of matches to my wants and corresponding prices.  With the new toys I've been buying (zero turn mower), and all the expenses getting the old place ready to sell, I wasn't prepared to splurge at the moment, so I went through and picked out some that I liked the prices of and probably couldn't trade for otherwise. 

The package arrived from Canada, and didn't take a really long time as is the expectation these days. 

Opened it up to reveal a flat inner sheet...

...wrapped around four inner packs.  Each was bagged and wrapped in index cards.  I separated the four packs and saved the painter's tape, as I usually do.  I was in the kitchen so I stuck it up on the range hood.

Already, I could see there was going to be a lot of tape to be re-used later.  Nice packaging though...

Unbagged each packet and pulled the tape apart.  I didn't really save much of it from this part since it stuck to the wrapper.

Inside each pack was another tape wrapped bunch of sleeved cards. 

So this pack is completely freed.  Repeat three more times. 

After all that, I had this many pieces of tape to collect.  Started a second row!

But wait!  There's more!

There was a second small envelope for the oversize cards!

With another inner pack...

Which was a cleverly configured combo of four index card wrappers.

Made it all the way across twice in the end!

Which almost doubled my tape supply on the side of the computer desk!  (All that on the right is from these packages.)

I'm sure you're wondering what was inside cardwise!  The Bernie Heritage SP and Phil UD Golf insert were part of it.  Along with some regular 2023 Heritage SPs, some miscellaneous player hits, including something like this:

This is the TCDB image for a regular prism refractor from 2022 Topps Chrome Anniversary, but mine was a fancier parallel that doesn't have any image.  I got a black and white diamonds parallel of the Keith Hernandez too.

An insert for my Sergei Fedorov collection...

A very rare Priest Holmes 1999 parallel - Pacific Opening Day.  The top image is the regular base and the stamp is what makes the OD different.  They are all numbered out of 45.

And finally, I knocked out some more vintage O-Pee-Chees of my player collections.  Innocent looking regular fronts, but the cool alternative backs of the Canadian flavor. 

This was our notes after we both got our mailings:

Sent: Mon, Apr 6, 2026 7:06 PM

Got 'em both yesterday, thanks! Heck of a tape job. I will post about that on my blog :)

-LoQtus

Sent: Mon, Apr 6, 2026 6:29 PM
Awesome! Im glad they made it. Yeah I go through a lot of painters tape lol

Thanks again

-RockyCola

Ya gotta love enthusiastic packing!