My Blog about my Trading Card Hobby.
A fairly recent buy from Ebay was a 2022 Topps Archives Fan Favorites Autograph card of San Francisco Giants hitting coach Alyssa Nakken. The autograph is on card in blue sharpie, and at some angles it looks like it is a blue ballpoint. 1972 Topps Baseball Design.
In May of last year I blogged about a Topps Now card of Alyssa (here) which I guess is her RC?
The first of the two cards I like better even though the signature is not as legible, and is the one I had gotten a few years back. It was also an oddball type of card as it was originally a sealed "Uncirculated" card, however the gold seal sticker was damaged and was hastily "repaired" with some scotch tape. I don't think I had done that, but maybe. Anyway I probably debated if I should remove and ditch the damaged seal which just adds other problems including not being able to view the entire card. I'm just going to ditch the useless sticker. Maybe back when I got it I thought the seals were cool, but now I don't care. I liked if I could get them, but always hated that they cover up too much info. Also sellers will charge way too much extra for the seal. Anyway that is the older of the two, even though it is from a later series of the cards.
The second more recent acquisition has its own story. I got it from Ebay and even though I paid over $20 ($26 and some change $20 plus postage and tax) the seller sent it by the new Ebay standard envelope. Cards valued over $20 are not supposed to go that way. (update: OK technically my card was just at $20 so it just sneaks by) Which I don't care for. Mostly because the tracking marks the package as "delivered" when it reaches your area's main hub post office, not necessarily your "home" post office that serves your address. I got it a day or two after it was marked as delivered. This has happened with another card I had received via the standard envelope as well.
Not sure what this post will be about just yet.
As usual when it comes to blogs and blogging I have been doing that barely post one post per month per each of my blogs. Another thing about blogs I have been doing lately well something I haven't been doing lately is reading other people's blogs. Years ago I would easily read 20 to 30 mostly card blogs to keep up with the goings on in the blogiverse, but now days I read very few if any. For about a year or so I have still gone through the daily ritual of seeing what the new posts are, but rarely bothering to read any posts in their entirety. I used to have a laundry list of blogs that I HAD to read each and every time they made a new post, now I don't HAVE to read any blogs anymore. Many days I don't read any blogs. My interest in reading blogs daily has dropped down to almost nothing. Now when I check for new posts I scan the initial preview and only if something interests me either in the title, the thumbnail image or the first couple of sentences showing will I read the post. I usually try reading the special Blogiversary posts or the highlighted special achievements.
That being said the few people following and reading my blog will probably drop from only a handful to next to nothing. Oh well that doesn't bother me - much.
Anyway the card I decided to show was one that I have had for sometime. I scanned it last month with the batch of cards I ended up blogging about then. I have been planning on waiting to blog about it until I had gotten a similar card, since it is an autograph card I was waiting until I had purchased and received one of the other autographs from the same series and actor and then would post about both cards. But since I had scanned it and I don't know when (or if) I'll get the other card I present it here and now.
The bonus card that is the header for this post is 2001 Rittenhouse Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Promo Card NNO
This is a super duper quick post as I have less than 10 minutes to publish. OK I'll do a publish and then edit later to make my self appointed monthly deadline. I also had to do this with the January post for my Nationals "Curly W Cards" Blog. It is cheating a little bit as the meat of the post was not published just basically the title and a little bit of blah, blah, blah to get in under the wire.
Both are from the 2006 Inkworks "Charmed Destiny" card set. The set consists of 72 base cards, which these cards are from, 11 Autograph cards, 9 Costume cards ("jersey"/Relic), 6 "Bad Karma" cards looks to be villians, 9 "Unforgettable" cards, which is a 9 card puzzle picture, 3 box loaders cards, a 1 card case loader autograph card of Brad Kern Executive Producer, and 5? Promo cards which I have a few of (at one time I had planed on making a post of those promo cards I do have. Maybe sometime I will). I might not have all the promo cards I'm not sure it's been a while since I've looked at what I have and TCDB doesn't list promo cards very well anymore. I have some promo cards from the television series Warehouse 13 that used to be there but are not there anymore. But I digress.
The first card is card number 20 Ask Phoebe
Here are the backs of the cards with the backs of the COAs
So yeah it took me about 1/2 an hour to actually compose this post. I started the scanning of cards for this post (and my "Curly W Cards" January 2021 blog post) at about 10:30 PM on Sunday 31 January 2021 and it was 10 til Midnight when I was ready to start drafting these posts.
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