I focused on the small stuff this time around, there's a monthly show next week and I'm going to be paying off the bill of my road trip for awhile...
50 cent vintage!
Some junk wax
I did splurge on one purchase, just too good to pass up Hammerin' Hank:
I also found a couple oddballs:
love the Hank! congrats!
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DeleteThat's a big time pickup with the Aaron. Sweet card from one of my all-time favorite sets.
ReplyDeleteI found a '68 Topps Maury Wills and Luis Tiant similar to those Killebrews at my local flea market a few years ago. I thought it was kind of cool that someone took the time to attach those Topps Decals to them.
That's funny - the vendor I bought those from had several others that a collector had be-decal-ed from 68 and 69, I wonder if it was a trendy thing to do?
DeleteSerious question: do you consider early 1980s cards -- say, before 1985 -- to be junk wax? For whatever reason, I feel like the junk wax era began in 1985 or 1986 and then got worse from there. So, I'd call the 1986 Fleer and the 1989 Donruss The Rookies as junk wax, but the rest would just be "cards."
ReplyDeleteJust curious.
I guess I call vintage 1979 or older, junk wax from 1980 - 1989, 1989 - 2009 overproduction era...
DeleteIt's not that I think 1981 cards are junk, just that if I wanted to buy an unopened pack of 1981 cards, it might cost me a couple bucks, but any older and it gets much more expensive. I don't know of official definitions from the hobby, I'm just using price / supply as the guide...
The Aaron is a great pickup. That set with Hoosier great is kinda cool. I've picked up a few former Sox for myself. I've seen a few examples of cards like the Killebrew. I wonder if the same person did them and now there scattered all over the country
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to know the story on those decals. The vendor I got them from sells at shows around the midwest and is moving out east some time this year - he's done shows out in Virginia and has done the national convention show for some time now, those could have come from anywhere...
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