Contending

 Not showing all the cards from 2020 Panini Contenders which all came from the 2026 lot today, but this will give a good sampling...

Aaron Rodgers as card number one - we have the usual Cobtenders design. I don't know what the significance, if any, for the game number is. I did however get 3 copies of the Gronk card for what it's worth.

The Titan uniform could easily go for a CFL Argonauts uniform.

Big Ben, and backs that lack stats. 

No inserts or parallels, but about 100 cards with a few dupes, but a good part of the base set. Should be good trade fodder for when I get active enough to reach out and initiate trades on TCDB. Which I promise will happen one of these days...

More Flagship

 The 2026 Lot is back with some more Topps baseball and we get some more set help today too...

No surprise for the flagship set that the help is mostly RCs since I think the lot I got before had many of them pulled. For the Opening Day set, I was working mainly from a couple blasters I bought, so still some holes to fill there. The Smith card is actually an error card addition given it's not Smith in the photo, but seven keepers works nicely for me.

Traders a plenty that I can, hopefully, eventually, turn into the cards I am missing...

A double shot of Martinez and EE...

I still love the ballpark photos on the team cards, and Rosario with the bunch of dirt still looks like a great card and stands out.

Almora and the Ivy stand out similarly as well. The more I see of these 2019 sets, the more I think they were one of the best sets of the 2017-2022 period and might stretch it even further than that actually.

Incompletions

Too much football today...see below, so let's share a trade in baseball since that will be a better share (well, better for my collection). I had a nice little PWE trade with TCDB member baseball_752 which netted about 1/3 of the remaining 2021 Topps flagship set cards I am missing - down to 20 on that front.

I don't think I have any big name rookie cards left, so completion is possible. We also had some Jays content in the trade too...

I have never been a big fan of the Fire set designs, but I'll take the Jays, thank you. Clase is a Jay if you look at the card. On the back, it's the Toronto name and logo....still counts to me, but I will want a second copy for the error collection as well.

A great trade and many thank yous.

Football on tap with the 2026 Lot today, and a few neat things to point out...

We start with an 80s 1000 yard insert - nice.

The bulk of the cards from today are what would have been completed box sets which were broken apart for whatever reason. The box set has the foil logo on the front, but otherwise is the same as the Topps set for the year.

Not sure why the single 2000 year card and a bunch of 1999, but so be it. As for the Platinum set cards, unlike the last ones, this bunch is actual base cards and not parallels.

We end with a Kelce card. I wonder how much of a Swift impact there has been, if any, on his card prices.

On Topps

 Baseball from the 2026 Lot today being some unexpected keepers...

Flagship Topps helpers isnt unusual but from the early 10s - nice....and a JJ Bowman insert too. The cards have generally been from the last few years, or the high production "junk" years, so nice to see a bit different here.

Some more 2019 Topps Heritage, though no keepers. Still need to see a bunch more before I consider collecting the massive set.

I may not be a big fan of Prizm, and in this case, the "Tier" system of the base set, but I can get behind seeing newer cards for Ozzie, Brooks, Robin (below), Brett (below as well), and Rod - very cool.

Not too bad a day and some solid trade fodder.

I Don't remember These...

 A bunch of football from the 2026 Lot today, but I'm going to focus on one card - top middle in the first scan....

I don't think I ever realized that the 1990 Pro Set football set had these Superbowl inserts. Apparently one a pack from the first series, I don't think I have ever had one in hand, and since I never opened football packs, wouldn't have come across them other than in a lot purchase like this. Well, with as much of the base set I have seen, this is the first insert that crossed my path.

It isn't anything specifically spectacular, but would have been cool for the time. I like the idea of an insert set highlighting all the Super Bowls to date, so thumbs up on content, and now I can at least say I have seen a card from it.

The Joe Montana league leader card from Fleer 1991 is a nice card highlighting a great.

Draft Pick sets are not my thing, but are big to Panini so we have some 2016 Contenders cards here - I know Rob at least. I'd much prefer more 2008 Topps Chrome cards like the Marshall card instead though, but maybe that's just me.

I do like the 2001 Donruss retro design and insert set from the 2021 product, nice.

If you were looking for "hits" for the day, the couple Brady cards are probably the winners as anything Brady is a good pick up when talking football. Last card up...

Doesn't show in the scan, but the corner is so bent out of shape, I am deeming this to be packing material. I try and be pretty good about condition of trade bait, and some, I just can't put up for trade, but I also can't just throw out cards, so it's a good way to keep them going with purpose.

By Any Other Name and...Anyone Collect Stamps?

I have decided to get rid of my stamp collection. It isn't much and was a focus as a kid, but I wanted to see if anyone out in the blogosphere was a collector, as I would happily send some of it along by mail knowing it was going to a good home. I do have a bunch of the stamps "loose", so can send by PWE easily enough. Drop me a message if interested at all. Some pictures for a look...

Anyway, on to cards as today we get to talk about a silly - well, to me anyway, variation that the set from the 2026 Lot highlights today - the name variation. The set in question, 2019 Donruss...

Photo variations to base cards, I can accept and can be cool if there is a "basic" photo, and the variation is maybe more of a short print and more of an action shot or something, but here we Jacob Tyler, but as you see in the next scan, we also have J.T.

It doesn't appear that these variations have a big value difference, thankfully, but still a variation and I will keep the variant (which is apparently his full name) but my insert/parallel/short print and variant collection, but it is a minor variant. 

If variation photos is your thing, the Torres, Baez cards above and Chapman below are all apparently the variation photos according to TCDB. I guess these are not really short printed given how many I have popping up here, but still a cool card to keep, even if not for value purposes.

I thought for a minute the retro cards may be a parallel, but no, just the last subset in the base set - still a nice use of the design while still making them clearly 2019 cards with the dating, which I can appreciate.

A decent set, and a couple keepers for me - though no Jays, but plenty to trade if anyone is working on building this one.

Cards That Traveller

I recently was able to be the first trade partner and completed trade of new TCDB member travellerofdawn, a fellow Canadian - actually, fellow Ontarian, as the member lives in Ottawa, and in the trade, hockey cards, and of course Tim Hortons cards as part of that, came my way.

The 2022-23 Flow Of Time card is a nice add as I SLOWLY continue to inch through some of the tougher insert sets to complete for that year.

The Above The Ice insert gives me my Toronto team copy in addition to the copy for the set completion.

It's Their Time MVP insert is a nice one and done fir my Leafs and some 2024-25 flagship Upper Deck help to finish.

Appreciate the trade and being the TCDB fiest for a newer member.