Wes Sends Some Giants

 This past Christmas, Wes sent a box packed with so many treasures it was always hard to post them all. So for today, I wanted to sum up most of the NY Giants he sent. Well, at least most of the hits he passed along.

The first card was one on my want list and my first relic card of Greg Comella.

The back of the card features Packers FB William Henderson.

The next ones I will try not to wipe my sweat on,

Davis Webb Towel Swatch cards. It made me look further into possibly adding more of these. How cool would a lot of these look together? By the way, Webb recently was signed back to the Giants to play 3rd, possibly 2nd string QB. Interesting.

Another Andre Williams auto for that massive PC.

Hefty Lefty QB! RIP!

Tiki Barber relic. I don't own a ton of Barber hits so any I get in is always a nice add.

Plax. If only he hadn't had the leg incident, that 2009 Giants team could have repeated as champs.

Always like a cool patch card.

Jesse Palmer is another one of those Giants draft picks that was supposed to be the future of the organization. NOt so much.

Another nice Webb swatch, this time a patch one.

Don't get in his way! Brandon Jacobs could run over anyone.

My first relic card of Super Bowl hero Kevin Boss. Many forget about his momentum changing catch.

Ike Hilliard relic. I don't have a lot of Hilliard either, really need to get his auto at some point.

Thanks again to my buddy Wes for the mail day. Hope to post the rest soon.

Thoughts on my mail day welcomed in comment.

Unintentional Rainbow Chase: 2017 Optic Davis Webb

 

Davis Webb was supposed to be the face of the NY Giants after Eli Manning retired, but instead he became the face of my latest Unintentional Rainbow segment.

I may only have three, but it's a start of something that could grow big pretty easily as they are affordable.

Here is the overall chase,

Base,Bronze, Holo, Lime, Pink, Red/Yellow, White Sparkle, Aqua /299, Orange /199, Blue /149, Red /99, Purple /50, Black /25, Gold /10, Green /5, and Gold Vinyl 1/1.

Here is what I have remaining,

Base,Bronze, Holo, Lime, Pink, Red/Yellow, White Sparkle, Aqua /299, Orange /199, Blue /149, Red /99, Purple /50, Black /25, Gold /10, Green /5, and Gold Vinyl 1/1.

If you have any of my needs and are up for a PWE trade, please contact me via email at sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com.

Tradin' With Pops Again

I know it's Star Wars day and everything, but I haven't added any Star Wars cards recently and didn't feel I should post the same ones over and over again, so let's just check out my mail day from my father a couple weeks ago instead.

Back in January, we finished up our first trade in over a year and I mailed mine out pretty quickly to him and he usually returned the same. Problem was, health issues started to occur.

He got the flu that lasted a long time, then came down with bronchitis, etc, etc, etc. With the world the way it is, he couldn't take himself into the Post Office hacking away so he had to wait it out. Finally, he felt good enough and got this out to me before anything else happened.

I had no idea what was being sent anymore as I forgot with it haven been so long, so it was as much of a surprise to me as it will be to you guys reading this on here.

An almost complete set of E.T. I loved the movie and my father doesn't like non sport cards so he knew where they would be going.

I believe a picture of me when this at-home order is over with. Oh, sorry, I mean a complete E.T. sticker set.

90's cards at their best, Nicknames card of Cal Ripken. Hadn't seen one of these before and when I saw he was trying to sell it, I told him to toss it in my trade pile. This is the one card I remember claiming.

My best 2020 rookie card to date. I can cross off Herbert from my needs list now.

Rutina Wesley relic. I have never seen anything she has been in, but I love my non sport relics so great add regardless

Davis Webb relic card

And another Lauletta autograph for my PC. This marks my 15th autograph of his and at least my second if not my third of this particular one.

I hope to work out another trade with my father at some point. It helps take the mind away from things going on in the real world and its always fun to of course.

Hope everyone has a Happy Star Wars day and let me know in comments which Star Wars movie was your favorite

Simple Cardboard Trading

 

Have I mentioned how I enjoy simple trades? You know, the ones where you don't have to worry about the stress of money and values. The ones where you have to break down dimes and pennies even. Just a simple, I want this and I will give you this agreement is what I and @911baseballguy have been doing.

And to boot, the guy was patient for me to ship. Like weeks and weeks patient. With the rising cost of shipping, I have been trading a lot less even PWE wise. This year has been tougher financially so I had to cut back either way, but in general the shipping costs are frightening and making me cut back even more.

This is a big reason why my trading with other bloggers was cut back as well.

Well the start of my trade was landing that MJ Fleer sticker from 1988 for my small MJ PC. Hated the guy in the 90's, appreciate him now.

Davis Webb autograph relic.I know he isn't a Giant anymore and is on the opposite NY team, but still in blue here so I am still taking them in.

And a must have was this C.J. Conrad auto from Leaf. Undrafted TE rookie that signed with the Giants and has looked solid so far. But, will he be able to make the team that already has Engram and Ellison and Simonson. Giants are deep at TE.

Thanks again goes out to Shawn for another great trade and for making it simple. Looking forward to our next!

A Cardpocalypse Hits My Mail Box

My mail box hasn't seen much shortage of mail days over the last few weeks and it has been great. I went so many months without anything that this streak I am on has me feeling good. But, all streaks come to an end and I think mine is heading that way.

Along this streak of mail days has been a few surprises. Expected mail days are fun and all, but surprise mail days, yeah, those are the best.

I did know I had something coming from @TMurphyCards but I had no idea what it was. He wanted to send me something to help start my New Year better than last years started. Well, it worked.

 

He threw in a pack of 1992 Skybox NFL Prime Time football which I have set aside in my rainy day packs. At some point I will be breaking these and revealing the contents on here. Stay tuned for that awesomeness.

 

Some Giants cards of course were found. I really like that LT Fleer All-pro design. One of the better early 90's designs out there.

 

It took me many years to realize that these Pro Set Power cards had parallels. This is the silver foil base card but the parallels take the pretty foil on the product name and turn it gold. Not quite the eye catch as the base. One of the very few times where the base looks better than the parallel.

 

Then came the whopper. Landon Collins Purple Prizm autograph! One of the top safeties in the league! I just wished he hadn't gotten hurt towards the end of the season. I wanted him to finish strong. Speaking of finishing, will he finish his career as a Giant? This offseason will tell as his rookie contract has ended.

Thanks Tyler for the great cheerful mail day!

The next surprise I had came just a few days later. Well, not sure if it was a surprise or a slip of memory @Cardpocalypse was sending me something, but either way, it was a nice find.

 

Tim sent along a filled bubbler full of goodies with most focusing on Big Blue.

 

I have been trying to think of another Topps Chrome rainbow I should attempt then this guy popped up. Could be an affordable one to chase. Hmmmm...

 

FLUFFY! I was able to add one of these off from my want list already, but I don't mind at all having another. This dude is funny! I own all of his DVD stand ups so far and some lines I have even memorized. Good stuff.

 

These are two great looking cards I didn't have and they come from Panini Father's Day packs. Snacks Harrison who the Giants sadly traded to the Lions halfway through the season and Landon Collins who they could lose as well. But I plead to them don't let Landon go!

 

OBJ! Flashback design to the iconic 1986 Topps that also had an iconic WR rookie card in the set....however, no comparison from me of Odell to Jerry. Jerry was in a different league.

 

Danny Kanell and Jason Sehorn Bowmans Best base I didn't have. I miss football card variety.

 

When I finish up my Rodney Hampton PC or get to the point where I can't add anymore, we will be inserting Kerry Collins to take his spot I believe. I have always had a soft spot for Kerry for some reason or another. I would accept cards from any of the teams he played on. Also still am searching for an autograph in a Giants uniform.

 

I don't have the figure and didn't have the card til now. Cross it off!

 

Michael almost saw his sack record get sacked by Aaron Donald. I am glad it didn't and even though Michael said he was cheering on Donald to do so, deep down, come on man. You don't want your record taken away.

 

I feel like many forget about Eli's records he owns both team and league along with his Super Bowl wins. This is why I still say he is a Hall Of Famer.

 

Old School Stadium Club is the best. Great photography, design and this Matt Bahr proves it.

 

One of the best TE's in Giants history. I never sadly got to watch him play on TV but have seen plenty of highlights and I am impressed.

 

I don't have much for old school Giants cards, so it's easy to have new additions from those eras. I need to get more vintage honestly.

 

Some Giants rookies that didn't quite pan out. I think Thomas is the best of the group here.

 

Judge! I need to put these with my others and see how far I am from this set.

 

This was my favorite photograph of the group. He has long reach. Of course he is a literal giant.

 

Anyone who reads this blog knows I love shiny things so Tim hit the spot with a couple Prizm parallels. I tried my best to capture their magic but it didn't quite fall into place.This is Wayne Gallman who I hope is back again next year. I can't see why they wouldn't bring him back.

 

Davis Webb. So pretty!

 

I didn't have this Gallman relic and I like the look of it! The fabric fold on the jersey is pretty unique as well.

 

Amani Toomer rookie card. I never figured out how he had so many jersey numbers. Some cards show him wearing 18, others 89 and then he ends up wearing the iconic 81.

 

More shiny goodness. This time comes in Donruss form of Paul Perkins.

And to finish out Tim's mail day is this OBJ. I wished Topps would bring back Topps Prime and it's amazing photography and make a baseball line. That would be another version of Stadium Club which is a collectors favorite.

Thanks again to Tim for the mail day! I know we both will have another one soon for each other with our big awesome ongoing trade. Still looking for stuff for ya after I write this.