Attended the National Battlefield Card Classic in Gettysburg over Memorial Day weekend. Held at the All-Star Sports Complex near the Eisenhower hotel, it is now only 15 minutes from my house, making it the most convenient show venue.
Unfortunately, it was steadily showering when I got there, and I had to walk close to a quarter mile from where I parked to the entrance. So standing in line was a little damp. The show was pretty much 50/50 sports vs. Pokémon/MagicTG, but that's par for the course these days. Those gaming cards sure are colorful, but they all look the same to me.
The other "as usual" was that the majority of my days' haul was the same things I usually find at shows now - namely player collection singles from the most current sets, and base, parallels and hits from my two modern football PC guys: Jayden Daniels and Jordan Addison. An addition that I can make to that list now is Angela's guys: Brett Favre, Eli Manning, Peyton Manning & John Riggins.
Here's what I got, but not in the order I got it:
Some parallel '25 Ginter action with both the silver and Chrome Bo, silver Torre, X black Fisk, and mini Sutter. This kind of stuff is hard to track, even when I try to make lists. I don't put it on their web page, because it would make the listings way too long, but only having odd lists of certain years and certain sets isn't much help either.
As were most of these Brett Favres. The first two are numbered, so they may have been a buck a shot.
The Modern Artist (blue) is /99 on the back.
The Resurgence is /275 on the top left corner of the front.
And finally, the first purchase I made was this Jordan Addison Flawless Collegiate Gold patch auto /10 for $40. It was marked something like $175 on the sticker underneath. The dealer said he was surprised it had not sold in four shows up until then. I'm glad I got the markdown. It still showed the three digit price on COMC, which is what I gauge prices with.
The Phoenix Rookie Rising Jayden Daniels is a regular mainstream insert....
The middle card is something else. I asked the dealer what it actually was and he wasn't sure. (It was the dealer's young son and he said Dad handled all the buying.) They were priced at $25 and $15 or so, but I asked the Dad if he'd take $30 for the pair and he did. I managed to find out later what the middle one is.
It's a custom from a WhatNot user (who's a Giants fan...??) and sells them for exactly what I got mine for. I think it was worth it for a nice looking and unique addition to my collection, whether it's official or not.
That's really all I came up with. There were only a few vintage dealers at the show, and they seemed rather overpriced, so I didn't look for my '61 set build at all. I'll wait for the bigger shows in the fall. Thanks for stopping by!
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