My Collection Quest

(Dragging out) Continuing my epic hockey card haul of November, here are some autographed cards I picked up. I normally don’t look for ‘graphs at card shows, but if something grabs my attention and is cheap enough, then I’ll go for it.

2005-06 SP Authentic Jim Slater – Worth all 100 pennies of the dollar that I paid for this card. It is hard-signed in blue Sharpie marker.

2005-06 Fleer Prized Prospects Danny Richmond – Richmond was born in Chicago, and played parts of 3 seasons with the Blackhawks. He also wore 44, which is my favorite number. The card is a sticker ‘graph, but signed in blue. Cost was $3, and is numbered 538 out of 999.

2007-08 Be A Player Shea Weber – One of my favorite d-men in the NHL. $3 for this autographed card seemed fair.

2007-08 Be A Player Daniel Carcillo and Aaron Voros – This dual-signed card cost me $5. I don’t know much about Voros, but Carcillo was my favorite Coyotes player last season. Heck, he’s probably my favorite Flyer this year. He reminds me of Dave Manson, a player I grew up watching.

I got a few more goodies at this show, but I’m still in the tedious process of sorting and scanning…

Continued from my previous post about all the awesome hockey cards I picked up on November 22. Here’s some vintage, gum-smelling goodness:

Twelve (12) cards from 1973-74 Topps for $8.75. Now I only need 9 more cards and I’ll have the entire 198-card set.

Three (3) cards from the 1972-73 O-Pee-Chee set for $3. I’ve got quite a ways to go before completing this set, though.

1974-75 Topps Denis Potvin RC for onnnnnnneeeeeeeee dollllllllllar!!!!! Yeah, OK…it’s got a slight crease. But did I mention that I got it for onnnnnnneeeeeeeee dollllllllllar?

1974-75 Topps Bobby Orr–the greatest defenseman of all time–for $3. I might have to start putting this set together too.

1960-61 Topps Al Arbour. This card rocks because of its use of primary colors (blue, yellow, red). Plus, Arbor is wearing glasses. Most of you probably remember him better as the longtime coach of the New York Islanders, but he was the last guy to play while wearing glasses. Oh yeah, I paid $5 for this slice of cardboard. Ironic that I paid more for an Arbor card than Orr and Potvin combined.

To be continued…

Every November and March, there is a big card show in Chicago sponsored by the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. I almost always find a bunch of cards that I am looking for, and sometimes cards that I’m not looking for but are too good to pass up.

This past Sunday, I went to the show and got quite the haul. So truly epic was this haul that I will have to break it up into several blog posts. First, some recent rookie cards:

Eight (8) 2007-08 Young Guns for $22, including David Krejci, Brian Little, Sam Gagner, Jiri Tlusty and Devin Setoguchi

Twenty-four (24) 2005-06 Young Guns for $29. Mostly scrubs of the “Common YG” variety, but I did manage to pick up Ryan Getzlaf, Tomas Vanek and Andrei Kostitsyn.

Now, onto some SHINY ROOKIE CARDS!!!

2006-07 Upper Deck Trilogy Shea Weber 745/999. For $1, who would not want this shiny Shea card?

2007-08 Black Diamond Milan Lucic. One day, I might actually complete this set. It is a low priority for me, but a $5 Lucic rookie seemed like a good purchase.

2007-08 SP Authentic Holo FX Patrick Kane. It would be insane of me to pass this up for $1. I remember a shop in Chicago selling this very same card for $20 about 2 years ago. Wait long enough, and you eventually get the deal you want.

Much more to come…

Or, perhaps more accurately I should state that I completed the 100-card base set of 2008-09 Artifacts Hockey.

Many of the cards from this set I got in a mega-lot I purchased back in March. A good number were also “donated” by Brandon of Cardboard Hockey, Etc.. The rest I picked up in trades here and there, including the last three I acquired this week: Dominik Hasek, Alexander Steen and Jonathan Toews.