Rodney's Cardboard:2020 The Bar Hybrid Edition

2020 has been packed with surprises, no doubt about that, even in the hobby as it has taken flight once again.

My Rodney Hampton collection as well has seen a few surprises this year pop up.

Cards I have waited years on are trickling onto eBay, he was in Mosaic as a signature and then today's added surprise when I found a listing with his named attached to The Bar product which is created by Super Products.

This "card" isn't the prettiest site in the world, but as a Super Collector, if it has his name and is legit, you gotta have it.

The card is simply a cut autograph from a 8x10 photo, which I recognized because it was in my watch list, with Rodney getting away from a Vikings defender. In the corner he signed this in the photo so Super Products cleaned cut it and glued it onto some black cardboard.

The back of the cardboard. I didn't need the authenticity as that is definitely Rodney's signature, but it's a nice touch to tell it apart as a real card and not a subject of an experiment by myself.

I was just glad the card wasn't too expensive but it does make me wonder how many of these or how many versions of it exist. I can't seem to locate a checklist for the product and since this isn't numbered 1/1 anywhere, it strikes my curiosity. 

 

At the time of typing this, 10/18, there are no more versions of this card to be found listed anywhere.

What do you guys think about cards like this? Yay! Nay! Let me hear your thoughts and if you would add something like this to your collection if you super collect a certain player.

In The News

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!