Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Slow and steady...

Patience is a virtue, and for a couple sets, a virtue needed because the gains now are slow in getting the base sets closer to completion. 2004-05 Legends Classics - we haven't seen much in a while - and 1991-92 Pro Set Platinum which has been a splattering of cards here and there throughout.

Highlights:

A few adds to these sets, which is great. The Essenza photo seems off centre - or just emphasizes the stick way too much. I like the Bathgate card if for no other reason than, the write up on the back includes noting he won a Stanley Cup with the Maple Leafs...hard to remember that some players actually did that back in the day.

The rest
Keepers:

The Stanley Cup Centennial card is very nice, even for early 90s Upper Deck which was otherwise quite standard. Add in the not often seen 2006-07 OPC and some mid 00s SPx, and these are some decent keepers.

Traders:


More dupe 2007-08 Upper Deck, but my favorite here is the Casey card. This is a great goalie card photo - and more centres than Essensa's card shown above.

Through 7180 cards:
Specific Accomplishments:
- Complete 2003-04 SP Authentic Basketball (90 card pure base)
- Complete 2005 Upper Deck Classics (100 card pure base)
- 3 Complete 2007-08 UD McDonald's Hockey Checklist Subsets (6 cards)
- 1973-74 O-Pee-Chee Hockey #30 Bobby Orr (All-Star)
- 2004-05 Upper Deck Legends Classics Platinum #64 Marcel Dionne Platinum 06/10
- 2007-08 Topps 1957-58 Variations Basketball  #112 Kevin Durant (Rookie)
Hockey Baseball Basketball Football Austin Powers Other
Toronto 115 12
Inserts / Var Kept 272 30
Error 15 2
Keep 1506 216
Doubles/Sell 995 134 1195 2115 256 27
Doubles Inserts / Var 88 1 94 107

3 comments:

  1. I kinda dig the photo on the Essensa card. It's different because of that cropping. Maybe I'm just getting old, but the photos on most cards all are just a blur. It takes something to stand out, like the UD Bobby Ryan and Jamie Benn cards from this season.

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    1. It does seem to take more to have a stand out photo, part may also be due to their being so many cards each year these days.

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    2. Also, it's borderless. That's always a win in my book.

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