You either love them or you hate them. I don't think there's much in between when it comes to minis and this hobby of ours. Myself? I'm not a big fan and that's mostly because I don't know how to store the dang things.
Although, I do have a couple of vintage minis that are over a century old and they are absolutely the bee's knees.
I stopped by my LCS, after work today, on my way to visit my grandfather. They don't have the World Series bobbleheads yet, but the owner said, "I think I have something you might be interested in."
Yeah! These are pretty cool! Twenty-one minis of the 2016 World Series Chicago Cubs. Very nice!
All of the backs are identical, which is fine by me. But, I did find it curious that I can't find a copyright date or a production company. Odd. No matter, because I've already placed them in a couple of mini pages and they're already being enveloped by the warmth of a Cubs binder.
But hey, that's not all! Meet Joe Tinker . . .
Johnny Evers . . .
and Frank Chance . . . three times over!
I also bought the thirty-six card set of the 1908 World Series Champion Chicago Cubs. I think there were only sixteen different players in the lot, but many of them had different card variations, like the Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance cards above.
There were some repeats backs, but ten different ones in all.
Even the backs had some variations to them in terms of coloring and fabricated wear.
Look at all the different shades of Piedmont backs. That's pretty neat.
These were sold as reprints at reprint prices, which I happily paid. For the record, these would never pass as actually T206s. There's no paper loss, fuzzy corners, stains, creases or holes. All the corners are
sharp and the card stock is noticeably thicker than an actual T206.
How do I know? Well I compared the two!
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| Vintage on the right! |
Here's the Jimmy Sheckard T206
Zippy Zappy gifted me nearly two years ago compared to the reprint. (BTW, ZZ, you rule.)
Here's the two backs of the cards:
The real deal is much cooler, but the reprint set is a welcome addition to my collection and much cheaper!
I know many of you are tired of hearing about the Cubs, but I had to share this find!
Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.
I have mixed feelings about "homemade" cards, which I assume those are (?). Seems like cheating. I thought only Topps can sell cards with logos. Is there a loophole for small producers? That being said, they look like nice cards. Love the real one too.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't know. I wondered the same thing about the logos and I asked my LCS owner about the presence of the logos. His reply was that he hoped to sell them all before someone noticed. Huh.
DeleteWell - that's something completely different. They may be homemade, but they sure do look nice. Interesting that they popped up in an actual card shop.
ReplyDeleteI've seen them on Ebay as well. I'm sure what's going on exactly with how they're being distributed.
DeleteThose are fantastic! Homemade cards done right.
ReplyDeleteThose look well done.
ReplyDeleteI'm obviously a big proponent of customs. But reprints without any markings of being a reprint? That's definitely skirting the line of COUNTERFEIT and should be looked at with a furrowed brow. Just throw on a tiny "2016 homebrew cards" or whatever on the back and it makes it fine in my book. Otherwise, not cool.
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