The Hobby Boards

Treated myself to a birthday present last week

Really like the inclusion of the actual card on the back. More inspired than most plates

Likely my last one for a while... I have a couple of TTM requests out that may pan out. Hoping Elvin Hayes comes through for me! haha...

While I was at a local card show this weekend I had a dealer give me a gift thanking me for doing my local card show walkthroughs. He said he enjoys watching them with his kid. Was very wholesome.
He does custom framing for cards, jerseys, and other memorabilia, and knowing I'm a Majerle fan from my random comments and pickups at the shows, he made a super cool piece for me.
It checks all the boxes for me. It's my favorite card brand, in one of my favorite design years, of my all time favorite basketball player, and it's autographed. One of the coolest gifts I've received in a long while.

That’s an awesome gift!!

^ That is one cool ass dealer.

that is awesome, what a cool gesture.

something a little different for me. Kyle from Wax Museum podcast posted a link to this on twitter and for $30 I had to scoop it up.
the floor piece came loose from the backing in the mail, which is fine by me because i wasn’t crazy about that part. trying to think of some way to repurpose the relic … or maybe will just display it loose on my shelf.

cookies wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 8:19 pmthe floor piece came loose from the backing in the mail, which is fine by me because i wasn’t crazy about that part. trying to think of some way to repurpose the relic … or maybe will just display it loose on my shelf.

I think it'd be sick to get a few cards made by Reclaim Customs (check him out on IG). He's done some cool stuff for Kyle from Wax Museum and I see his work on IG and it's fantastic.

Perhaps that'd allow you to keep one or two and offload the rest too. Dunno if that's your thing.

We already spoke about this set in the Photography thread, but I finally got the Penny in.

Recent pickup on the bay. Raywaves are so nice.

Love the Penny acetate.

Great looking parallel on that Raywave. First time seeing one of those. Reminds me a bit of the Prizm shock parallels but maybe a bit nicer even.

All pickups from my most recent Basketball Mail Time. Solid pickups.

I had won a single retail blaster pack of OTE 2021-22 for like $2, and the seller shipped it in a PWE. I was 100% positive I'd open the pack and they'd be ruined, but when I opened it, I got a pretty big surprise and it's in great shape.
Gold Raywave /50 (Retail Exclusive)


Another OTE Hobby Box:


A few Majerles from 2021 Topps Finest for the Majerle PC


Classic 1976-77 Rick Barry


And a Tony Parker Chrome RC

I love that Barry. Eventually I want to start adding pre-90s cards, I only have a handful in the collection.

Just in. Always thought this set was propped up by their steep pack odds and isn’t anything remarkable. Something like this could’ve easily passed as a Metal subset, for example. There’s also a few cards in the set with some really boring photos imo, but thankfully the Penny isn’t one of them. Love the shot used.

I never understood the 'Hardware' set either and my sentiments reflect your own. Probably one of the more overpriced for no reason sets ever from the 90s.

darz90scardz wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 6:28 am Just in. Always thought this set was propped up by their steep pack odds and isn’t anything remarkable. Something like this could’ve easily passed as a Metal subset, for example. There’s also a few cards in the set with some really boring photos imo, but thankfully the Penny isn’t one of them. Love the shot used.

Seems like this set would have major edge issues with the gold color and foil.

AbraCalabro wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 9:08 am I never understood the 'Hardware' set either and my sentiments reflect your own. Probably one of the more overpriced for no reason sets ever from the 90s.

Once people started obsessing about perceived print runs of unnumbered cards the set really saw a lot of “coverage.” There’s really nothing notable about them other than the fact the player specific odds are 1:5,000+. I’ve seen people absolutely fawn over the design.

FrankAZHP wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 10:37 am Seems like this set would have major edge issues with the gold color and foil.

Someone had commented that it’s got a copper kind of look which is pretty accurate, but yea it’s that typical super thin Metal stock. I knew going in that the bottom right corner had a bit of white but I anticipated a surprise issue. Not the case. I don’t think it would be lower than a BGS 8.5. I guess I’ll find out eventually, still haven’t ever subbed cards before but this one will def be in the pile. My plan is probably the same as many others, which is to sell certain graded pc stuff just to buy them back raw as well as fund additional cards.

darz90scardz wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 1:24 pm

AbraCalabro wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 9:08 am I never understood the 'Hardware' set either and my sentiments reflect your own. Probably one of the more overpriced for no reason sets ever from the 90s.

Once people started obsessing about perceived print runs of unnumbered cards the set really saw a lot of “coverage.” There’s really nothing notable about them other than the fact the player specific odds are 1:5,000+. I’ve seen people absolutely fawn over the design.

Lol. I have a Duncan, got it years ago. It's not terrible or anything but definitely one of my least favorite 90's inserts of his tbh. If it had a better photo like the Penny i'd probably like it more. I have also seen the more recent IG posts talking about how great these cards are, which seems to mostly revolve around how hard they are to pull..

It's like how people fawn over the 97 PMG's reds when there is nothing all that special about them except for the constant propping up from big names in the space. It's all hype. I see so many dudes justifying paying big money for those cards based on print run, perceived rarity, pop count, how iconic they are, etc... They just need to face reality, they bought the hype.

LOL

The pack odds stuff always cracked me up. It's one thing as a cool factoid for collectors, but when people start quoting the player specific odds in their impassioned IG posts, it's so obvious what's going on 99 times out of 100.


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This weekend's card show got me a decent haul of basketball.

I always wanted these gold Jordans even if "WCG 10s" are a joke. Maybe someday I'll send them to PSA to see what they actually grade while getting them out of these dirty/smoky weird slabs.
The Decade of Excellence sells for like $20 raw, and I paid $30 for all 3. I call that a big win.


Some classic Topps & Topps Chrome Penny. I shared them with darz90scardz on IG before I posted the pickups video as I was hype to share with someone hahahahahah
Both for $30. Another win.


And some young guys in Optic I didn't pay much for. Peep the Bagley label and tell me what PSA did wrong lol.

I have shown parts of my mailday on Instagram already. But I want to post the whole mailday here as well.

1000018344 by Aron Gerstmann, auf Flickr

1000018345 by Aron Gerstmann, auf Flickr

1000018343 by Aron Gerstmann, auf Flickr

Dual Refractor
1000018342 by Aron Gerstmann, auf Flickr

1000018341 by Aron Gerstmann, auf Flickr

Love the graded pickups Frank! Great Jordan’s, those Topps 40th refractors are awesome too! Looks like they missed the “Optic” on that Bagley..

Great Duncans! Totally jealous of that finest gold, that card is killer! I also really like the side by side refractor. I was looking for one of those awhile back then kind of forgot about it. Those are hard to come by!

Two nice pickups came in the mail today!

First up, can't say no to Topps Chrome Colored Refractors of All Time Greats!!



And I've been wanting a Luka Cosmic Rookie FOREVER, the ones on Ebay have just always been so expensive but I finally found one where the seller was willing to let go at a decent prince

ChrisP57 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:38 amFirst up, can't say no to Topps Chrome Colored Refractors of All Time Greats!!

That Black Duncan refractor is absolutely amazing!!!


Here's my most recent pickup from 1 of the 2 Arizona shows I attended on Saturday.

^ I’m partial to some of the later year Chrome inserts including Zone Busters. I had to trade away the Kobe refractor as part of a deal for the Penny ud3 season ticket, but that is a great looking set.

Speaking of, if no one’s seen an In the Paint refractor in hand before, you might wana try dat.

Small Luka Mailday today. 2022-23 Panini Chinese Revolution Emerald Parallel numbered to 88