Trade with Robert at $30 a week habit !

I have a policy that every trade deserves a post on my blog. Today's great trade clearly deserves one as well !! Recently, Robert at $30 a week habit gave up on his quest to complete the full 2012 Gypsy Queen SP set and offered the ones he already had up for trade. Lucky for me I still needed a few so a cool trade was quickly born. I send Robert some cards for his Insanity Collection (and I agree with Robert, it's an insane but fun project!) in return for 4 missing GQ SPs. They arrived safe and sounds on my doormat last week. Here they are !

First up the newest Yankee: Youkilis ! An old man replacing another injured old man some might say. A rookie was included as well, Matt Moore !

Two more cool cards, Griffey and Votto !

These 4 brings me 12 SPs from completing the 2012 set. Hopefully this can be arranged before Gypsy Queen 2013 comes out ! So if you have any for trade please let me know !!

I am still looking for the following SPs: 67 Josh Hamilton, 71 Ian Kennedy, 84 Freddie Freeman, 110 Jose Bautista, 120 Mickey Mantle, 142, Carlos Gonzalez, 149 Ryan Zimmerman, 226 Johnny Bench, 240 Tim Lincecum, 248 Wade Boggs, 258 Mike Schmidt, 288 Yu Darvish

Thanks Robert for a great trade ! Thanks everyone for visiting my blog today !

Trade with Community Gum: Minis !!!

Recently Jon at Community Gum showcased 2 boxes of 2012 Topps Minis with most of them for trade. With my quest to complete the full set not done yet, I contacted him right away to see if we could set up a nice trade. And so it happened that Jon send me a nice bunch of Topps 2012 Minis, bringing me close to completing the full set, only 7 cards to go !!

Here's what Jon send me, a nice Mickey Mantle to start with ! Also another Yankee, Brett Gardner in a nice catch !

In total Jon send me 21 Minis, here are a few more,  a great catch by Cabrera and a cool no-hitter this season by Philip Humber !

 A leader card was also included, Batting Average Leaders Reyes, Braun and Kemp !

Jon, thanks very much for the trade and helping me get close to completing the full set. In case anyone has the following minis for trade do let me know !!

I still need: 253, 310, 380, 400, 550, 639, 650

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SP Signature Edition: Glavine !

A while back Upper Deck came out with its SP Signature Edition with a checklist that included Tom Glavine. Clearly, as a Glavine junkie....euhhh...I mean "supercollector", I was on the look-out for this card and a while back one finally hit eBay. The great thing about Glavine is that there are not that many Glavine collectors around which keeps prices fairly decent. Therefore, I had the chance to pick this one up for a nice price and it arrived at my doorsteps a few days back !

As Upper Deck does not have a license or anything, the card has no Braves logo and not even a picture of Glavine. Still, I acutally like this card very much, it has a nice "old" feel to it but please judge for yourself...here it is !

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My Latest Kershaw !

Quick post today to show of my latest Kershaw addition, a 2012 Panini Signature series. I like this card and the lack of official Dodger logo doesn't really bother me. I also noticed that I have been picking-up more Panini cards lately (stamps anyone ?) and it feels that they are moving into the right direction. Hopefully they can keep this up to provide a nice alternative to Topps !

Well, let's stop talking and show the card ! Here it is !

What do you guys think, have you also been buying more Panini lately ?

A Sterling Rivera

The key focus of my collection when I started collecting were Mariano Rivera and CC Sabathia. However, as time went by that gradually moved towards Glavine, Blyleven and Kershaw with Rivera moving a little to the background. I recently started to put a little more focus on my Rivera PC and when I saw the following 2010 Topps Sterling relic card on eBay I decided to give it a go. I won it easily as it seems that much more people have apparantly focussed less on their Rivera collections habit as well...maybe it's his injury but hey, it gave me the change to get this beauty on the cheap !! Here it is !

Numbered to only 25, it's one of my nicest Rivera cards I now own !!

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Stamps ? Are we collecting stamps now ??

When I was a kid, growing up in Europe, stamp collecting was kind of often seen, usually collected by grandpa's and grandma's. In the last 10-15 years that hobby gradually died down I think with the emergence of sticker stamps and changes in postage systems. Therefore, I wasn't expecting to be starting to collect stamps in my lifetime.

Well, that all changed last week !! I noticed a new 2012 Panini signature card of Blyleven and this one included a stamp. It seems Panini has a complete insert series called Signature Stamps in its 2012 Panini Signature Series....so there I went, picking up my first "Stamp" baseball card. It arrived a few days back. I think it's interesting and kind of strange at the same time....judge for yourself !

Any of you own a "stamp" baseball card ?

Another Panini !

I noticed that recently in a lot of new sets there is a place for Blyleven, a lot of new relic cards and also a lot of new Autograph cards as he is seemingly signing a lot of cards lately. This is all clearly helping reduce the scarsity value which is not great for my current collection but on the other hands makes it much cheaper to expand my collection. So that's what I did and last week received another cool relic card, numbered to only #/49.

As I said before, I do believe Panini is improving with this card being another clear example. Hope they can keep this up in the future !!

On the same day I also received a card with a very familiar feel to it....after some digging it became clear that after last week's Blyleven's double card I again bought a card on eBay I already had a copy of. I really have to start paying more attention !! Luckily it was a cheap one but still !! So in case you are interested in a trade let me know !

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