The Distinct Aroma of a Super Trade

Tim From I Love the Smell of Cardboard in the Morning bestowed a fully loaded padded mailer in a stunning Super Trade.

Four New Kirbys!

plenty of old friends

Lots of more recent friends

A Jim Thome Party!

Some sneaky vintage in the form of a 1965 Topps Killebrew

And some nice hits to round it all out.

Thanks Tim!

This PWE Smells Like Victory!

Tim from I love the Smell of Cardboard in the Morning sent over this stuffed PWE last week and it was the first piece of mail I opened upon returning from Chicago.

what do we have here?

 Ooh, Shiny!

 The Killer is a bit of an oddball - the card is hand-cut and paper thin.

 Speaking of oddballs. . .

 Then the envelope went into a "parallel" universe - very shiny again!

More great parallels and a new to me Kirby Puckett! Can't beat that. Thanks Tim! This was a great envelope! 

The Envelope Please . . .

The Plain White Envelope, that is. I sent over some 1995 UD Minors Cards to Tim over at I Love The Smell of Cardboard in the Morning, and a stuffed PWE arrived on Monday in return. We've sent a few of these back and forth -  I have come to appreciate the fine art of packing a single envelope.

Check it out:

 A great Stadium Club Insert

 A trio of 3 time batting champions.

 Adam Brett Walker III - Already showing serious power in Chattanooga this year, Adam is working his way north.

 The Greatest of All Time or just The Greatest?

Some great Vintage designs from recent years and a pair of late 70s Twins.

Tim, thanks for another great trade!

The Sweet Smell of Success

WHOA! This was no joke, cats and kittens.

Tim from I Love the Smell of Cardboard in the Morning joined the group trade and scored big with the Yankees including a Reggie Jackson bat relic. You can see the haul here

The return package came on Friday, and it was a doozy:

Packed in the the brown cardboard in the first picture were two Super Suprises:

 They are from the 1980 Topps Super set - each card is about the size of 4 standard cards. They fit nicely in two pocket pages!

The other boxes were filled with all kinds of awesomeness:

 Jims Thome!

 Harmons Killebrew!

 Kirbys Puckett!

 Joes Mauer

 My first from this set of Heritage - just like the original, I think I like the horizontal ones the best

These are my first from this set, too - Topps seemed to take a few liberties with this one rather than emulating the 1953 set exactly in style (not all portraits like the original)

 Is this a Team U.S.A. jersey?

 These were all new to me (no, really!) I like the Big Mac bat flip the most. Golden moments was a cool idea, no idea how people felt about it at the time...

 Some Fleer Tradition as well, some of these are pretty cool!

 Oops! Hey Fleer, Milton is signing a Topps card there...

 Some TCMA cards featuring The old Colt .45s and the Twins...

Shiny! If Adam Brett Walker can bring down the strikeouts and bring up his average, he might be taking Oswaldo Arcia's job in a couple years. There were a bunch of those silver/chrome Bowman Heritage cards as well, very slick!

Whew! That's just a small taste of the things in the package - Thanks very much Tim, these were a blast to go through!