Trade cards takes a lot of time. It also sometimes costs a lot of work.
Everyone collects differently and sometimes it is difficult to match with another collector. That always happens. No problem actually. Then there are the colleague collectors who drag transactions too damn long.
I never participated in collector forums, but I have heard that transactions were often the case there. I have no problem exchanging beautiful cards, but I am not going to send a few dozen messages back and forth to reach an agreement about an exact accounting of precise compensation. I have had this to do with a few bloggers in the past. It’s not fun. Trading should be fun.
That’s why I tend to be super simple transactions. My favorite is: “I’ll send you some cards when and you send anywhere.” That is how most transactions go on the blogs. It’s about the only ones that I make nowadays.
This time I selected a number of heavyweights from the Topps football set of 1985. Look at the small way in which the set recognized all -pro. Certainly not the treatment of the 1970s! But how many large, daring looks do you need on the ’85 football set?
Two cards from the 60s, but they arrived in different ways. The Pete Runnels from 1961 came in the traditional way. The Turk Farrell from 1968 was a selection “in -time in time”, one of those cards that has waited four years until someone selected it. Farrell is perhaps without a hat and limited by the design of ’68, but I had to claim him.
But this is my favorite pick-up. It is a wing stamp from 1982 by Steve Garvey. I remember that these came out in 1982 and they shunned when I saw them for sale. Stamps ??? That’s not even a sticker !!
I have rejected these for years, not even bothering the Dodgers. Now it is 40 years later and I wish I hadn’t waited that long to add them.
So that is an easy trade and here there is one of an old friend of the old blog days.
He recently made some artworks from some classic maps from my era (’70 and ’80) and placed them all together with a mosaic for this folding panel. If you know the 70s and 80s, you know the Topps card, the 1981 Al Hrabosky, 1972 Dock Ellis, 1978 Glenn Burke and 1977 Mark Fidrych. They appear on both the front and the back of the panel.
A look at the intestines. There you can see the Bob Uecker Mosiac Topps from 1965. Just a great job. Still don’t know how he does it.
So of course the cards are meant to be cut, just like a hostess panel! So I did.
There they are, some brand new customs for my customs binder! And each of them has an individual “transfers advertisement” on the back, as you saw on the previous photo.
That is if you cut wisely, because if you didn’t do that, you would have cut the Uecker Mosiac.
I was careful. This beauty is 5×7 and I only have the page to save it. Really genius how this was made, so that I can have the individual cards as cards and also as a panel on the back (or front) of the Uecker photo.
All I had to do was send a few beaten vintage cards for this, that’s all he wanted. And he sent a few important cards together with his adapted work.
Man, this card (Pinch Hitter !!!!!). I had the Nestle Jackie Robinson card from 1987 from the early days of the blog and have picked up seconds and third parties over the years. But until this package arrived, I had never seen the Snider – the only other Dodger in the set – up to that moment.
I don’t hardly have anything from the tops set of 1954 that is not a dodger. But this is a legendary map (one that I recently wrote in a Beckett article). I don’t care about the creases, it’s a map from the 1950s, it should look like it’s that old.
The back of this card is almost as fascinating as the front.
And those were two very easy transactions. All I gave up were a few duplicates. And nobody was checking a ledger and ensured that they got “their share” and that it was no less than what I received.
I was very lucky with finding the card blog world and this kind of trade, I don’t even want to think what it would be like if I grew up on the forums or in the world of assessment whether Rookies or something of things like that. This is much more my speed.
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