Retirement is nice.
Though we've regressed to the point of staying up really late and consequently waking up close to 11AM most days. We'll have to get back to responsible adulting in August when Angela goes back to work.
But there has been progress. The card room is shaping up nicely. I'll do a post on it when the floor is completely cleared. I've got all the boxes and binders pretty much in their place, and most of the extra stuff is within reach. There are still piles to put away and cards in the spare bedroom to sort and move.
This past Tuesday, we even went to Kevin's Cards in Greencastle and spent four hours digging out singles. She found several of her PC guys and I got some SPs and Jayden Daniels. I haven't taken pictures of those yet, so hopefully I don't forget and you can see them.
But this post is for an eBay purchase I made in May. (This is how far behind I am with certain things.) The seller, andmalts, had all kinds of inserts, reprints, parallels, obscure issues, etc. Everything from '60's Topps stamps, 80's TCMA and Fritsch sets, 90's base and insert singles, to last year's hockey parallels, and more.
I loaded up on my PC guys things that I didn't have and haven't seen very often.
Starting off with a reprint of Charlie Keller's Tip Top Bread from 1947. I have a decent condition original, but sprung for the rerun anyway.
Another Charlie Keller original that I didn't have. I don't think postcards are usually 3½" tall, but I might be wrong. Bud is a standard size card for scale.
The back doesn't feel like it matches the size, but it's real.
Bud is also paired with these two postcard size 1986 Big Apple 3x5 cards. It's a 12 card set of Mets and Yankees. They are blank backed.
More Mets, this time from Kahn's in '91. These are well made.
Manny Sanguillen in the other of two TCMA All-Time Pirates sets. This one has the front in red. I think the backs on the other set are white too.
Julio Franco from the Starting Lineup figures. I would chase the actual figures, but I don't have space to display things like that. I took down most of the stuff I had on the baseball cabinet and boxed it up and sent it all to the basement. Trying to keep it simple in this version of the card room.
A pair of Carlton Fisk additions to his PC. Starting lineup from the same set (1988), and a Mr. Turkey Superstar. Hadn't heard of those until I saw this listing. Tempted to get the whole set just for the goofy name.
And finally, two more from the humongous Target Dodgers set. Ron Fairly (RIP) and a very young Pete Richert.
That's it for today. I hope to get in a few more posts this month. Have a couple in the works, but there's so much to do around here, we'll see.
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