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It was late and I was scrolling through Twitter and saw a tweet by @BrillantCards that he had some auctions ending soon on eBay. Luckily for myself, I had a little bit of money left on a gift card to use up so I went and searched his listings.

He had a bunch of stuff from baseball to football to non sport. His listings all started low and had free shipping which is also appealing to me.

As I scrolled through, I saw some cards from The Bar I have always wanted to take a shot at but never pulled the trigger on any. I think the cards look unique and the relics are different than most. So I started putting a minimal bid on ten of them and won four.

All the ones I won were under $5, some well under.

It wasn't much longer after picking them up, that they were in my hands. Which is quite surprising knowing how slow the mail has gone my way recently.

The first card I got was Paul Revere that included a swatch of newspaper from 1799, not sure how they ever got one of those to use in this, that was an article about him.

next one was an Al Capone, which you can see the word Al in the swatch, of newspaper from 1925.

After that is a Sam Adams, sorry not the beer, newspaper from 1976. I really dug the swatch of newspaper used on this one.

And not all of the cards from The Bar have newspaper relics, some have lost emails...I mean documents in them such as this Hillary Clinton one.

Not everyone seems to like these just looking at the selling prices of most, but I think they are a part of history with the documents/newspaper swatches they contain. Even though in some ways, its hard to think about a newspaper from the 1700's being cut up for a card when it should be saved for a museum. But, maybe there are many of them out there.

What are your guys thoughts on cards like this? Like em? Hate em? Let me know in comments!

Project Pedro Trade Recap Part 1:The Extras

October has officially been named, Cards I Got From Project Pedro Blog Month.

As I stated earlier this week, this was a really big trade. I had originally expected about 50 individual cards along with the wax boxes. But, what I got instead, were the expected cards along with another whole unexpected bonus box among other bonus plastic boxes full of cards.

So that my friends is where we will start.

 The above boxes were packed full of non-sport goodness built upon Allen And Ginter, Goodwin Champions and Americana to name a few. There were other cards too but those will be posted tomorrow.

I obviously can't post all. There was just way toooooooo many so I just picked out certain ones that stood out.

Okay, this stood out for obvious reasons. Why would Panini ever choose a photo of Jackie Chan like this? I mean, you can't tell me there weren't many other fighting poses you could choose and not the one that should be in a calendar or JC Penny catalog. (would love for you guys to caption this below however)

Up next are some Fans Of The Game. I really dig these inserts and actually own three of my own. Now I got 5.

This huge never ending Upper Deck 25th anniversary set is so deep that it's hard to get doubles of. I have a ton of these and didn't have any of these that were sent.

Most collectors look at these and say, that's base cards, who cares? Well, I do. There are some fun icons like Regis and Stan Lee included. Jordan Sparks is the daughter of former NY Giant Phillipi Sparks so that was a good add in my eyes.

CBS icon

More fun adds this time in mini form. I didn't have a James Brown card or a Erin Andrews.

And to end this part, some politics. These were in 2008 Topps randomly and I have a few of my own including the Huckabee. However Biden and who could be our next President in Clinton I didn't. And no, I don't want to discuss politics on here lol.

 

Just think, this is only the beginning. I just hope you guys are ready for what's coming ahead!