In my mind it is only a matter of time before we see similar moves in respect of the NFL, NBA & NBPA. They after all are equity shareholders in Fanatics Trading card company, that Panini decided to sue! Every large corporation has a ‘strategy’ department/division, that is responsible for looking...

I am also intrigued how others store / organise their collection; so it feels appropriate to share my approach! First up is my binders. For a good portion of my collecting life, I was a bachelor living in a one bedroom London apartment; so I had to keep things pretty tidy / organised. I simply did n...

I posted this on 'the other forum that shall not be named' but for me the most interesting thing about the lawsuit, is that it gives an insight into Panini's operations / production chain and why their release schedule has not recovered post the pandemic. The lawsuit describes how Panini has for a n...

I have recently started a little player PC of Chauncey Billups, in order that I can build a binder of cool lower-end cards that do not fit into my the main part of my collection. This card from 2009-10 Upper Deck 3D Stars turned up today and ticks the lenticular box in a big way! https://flic.kr/p/2...

As someone who started out set collecting in the mid-1990s, I do not think I will ever get used to looking at a checklist which has over 10,000 lines on it!

The 1990s was when I started collecting and now that prices have returned to resemblance of normality, I have found myself of late reliving back into that part of my collection. I am currently plugging the gaps in insert sets that I never fully completed; but have also started to re-visit releases I...

Whenever this question pops up, two cards in my collection come to mind. The first is an 06-07 Exquisite Patch Auto card featuring that I picked up a dozen or so years ago on the old Hobby Kings board. https://flic.kr/p/2oK1SRk The second is a an 07-08 Ultimate Collection Commitment Lebron James car...

Oh god, I hope I am not too guilty of this! :shock: Is a couple of paragraphs like this OK? :? https://www.instagram.com/p/CqoHSOQIFR6/ I personally quite enjoy collectors sharing some insight into their collection & rationale for their pickups when the post a new card. I suspect like others, I ...

There are some great other collectibles in here; but that is probably no surprise, as if you have the 'collecting gene' it is often difficult to keep it under control and limit to one particular item / product! ;) Although I have been collecting sports cards since the 1990s, in reality it is my seco...

Coming from the United Kingdom, trading cards were simply not a thing; they were just not available as they were in the U.S.A. For us it was all about stickers. In 1978 (when I was a ten-year old) Panini launched the first self-adhesive stickers (before that you had to glue the stickers into an albu...

From Hobby Kings...to Blowout...to The Hobby Boards! I thought I would launch my account here, with an old fashioned mail-day post. My 25 year collection journey has evolved from collecting modern cards of active players, to focusing on modern cards of HOF to more recently heading down a vintage rab...