Especially today when Thick McRunfast gave me a fairly one sided trade because he knew the cards were going to loved and enjoyed more in my collection than in his trading card pile.
The first one up is a big one - literally a 5 by 7 "card" which is more like a paper insert...
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This is a 1982 O Pee Chee Poster. A nice add, though a bit harder to store, except luckily I still have a number of 5 by 7 pages (they fit two cards perfectly, but the page is a little smaller on the width, so I have these sized cards separately kept.
A nice card, in any form regardless.
Since we started with a Jay, let's take a look at the rest of the Blue Jay collection cards he sent across.
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These include the first Pinnacle Express cards for my collection. Not a big fan of the horizontal design, but it does stand out at least.
A nice Stroman first Bowman card too.
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A Drew rookie card refractor which looks quite snazzy in hand too - and I like the J&J Heritage card as well.
The other part of the baseball cards - a big help to the 1986 Topps set.
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A good bunch of cards which bring me close to 700 of the almost 800 card base set. Not sure I will get this one done this year, but would expect I can do so next year.
There was also a few hockey sets which received some completion help...
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Here we have the final card I was missing out of the 1990-91 Score American set. I have checked and double check and put it together - nothing missing - yay!
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Still have about 30 cards left for the 1991-92 O Pee Chee Premier set now and...
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about 50 cards left for 1991-92 Stadium Club.
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A couple other set needs, a UER Wayne Gretzky, and the first Leaf card with Dimitri...but plenty more Leaf cards to come...
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Some nice vintage cards which I am happy to add, especially the Paul Henderson. Actually was on a retreat with out firm a number of years ago and we ran into him while he was vacationing at the same place. Very cool guy and down to earth.
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Will always be happy getting new Doug Gilmour and Wendel Clark cards!
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It is tempting to want to take the peel off....off...but I know I shouldn't.
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The Wolanin card has a fantastic photo - it's these odd ones that always stick out with me and that really make the cards some times.
Wow - that was a lot to get through and as always, very appreciative, and a big thank you to Thick McRunfast for being so generous.
That was an extremely generous package! Because of the difficulty in storing them, I'm not usually a fan of mini-posters, but that one you got sure is snazzy looking.
ReplyDeleteExtremely generous indeed, and yes, the size does make them a bit more of a hassle to store - but when they look that good, you just have to find a way.
DeleteWow. There's so much variety... this post could be used as a hockey card timeline.
ReplyDeleteThat 1990-91 Brind'Amour was the set completer? Cool! Happy to know all the cards in the trade have a good home now. Hope to trade again sometime.
ReplyDeleteIt did indeed, and many thanks for it!
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