What was your best/favorite pickup of the offseason?

[darscards35kd]

Its finally back guys!! Now lets see what everybodys favorite (doesn't necessarily have to be the best) pickup of your offseasons.

[gslayton]

I'll show it off every chance I get... Hahttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171018/c2fcb6e5daeab5abf811485d964b3f6e.jpg

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[darscards35kd]

/thread.... WOWWWWWW

[smalltown]

It was a good offseason for me picking up stuff. This is one of my favorites for sure:

https://i.imgur.com/lDSObM5.jpg

[yankeesfan24]

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4365/36620399211_bf54e603ba_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/XN27Ri)

[pennywise]

God that Kobe is nuts, gslayton. Can somebody school me on that "venture21" case/grading company?

[SHowley2003]

I don’t have a good photo of it but this Optic Gold is my favorite offseason pickup. It’s just so shiny and the green and gold work with the photo so well. When I submitted it and landed a 10 that was just an added bonus.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4381/36496086014_0e97c60cbe.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/XB2YSj)917 BGS Submission (https://flic.kr/p/XB2YSj) by showley2003 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/138094604@N07/), on Flickr

[HP7163]

I don’t have a good photo of it but this Optic Gold is my favorite offseason pickup. It’s just so shiny and the green and gold work with the photo so well. When I submitted it and landed a 10 that was just an added bonus.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4381/36496086014_0e97c60cbe.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/XB2YSj)917 BGS Submission (https://flic.kr/p/XB2YSj) by showley2003 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/138094604@N07/), on Flickr

Damn NICE :eek:

[Chain]

I've already shown this in the show off thread, but I'll show it off again. Hehe.
http://smacker-collection.weebly.com/uploads/8/4/9/0/84909730/magic-johnson-2005-06-sp-signature-edition-inkredible-inkscriptions-ii-mj-12-of-50_orig.png

[jjohnson814]

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4424/23550275768_5656cbd61b_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/BT4jvo)


https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4399/36702863606_b5e36ba4d4_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/XViLDd)

[gslayton]

God that Kobe is nuts, gslayton. Can somebody school me on that "venture21" case/grading company?Alright, I was away from the hobby but have been thoroughly schooled by some big collectors.

Rb21/ Venture 21 was/is a huge hobby shop/investment group in Japan w numerous locations. They had full page ads in every Beckett for years.

By some point they owned probably the biggest collection of 90s high end basketball cards in the world. They had high prices for their singles online, which today would seem ridiculously low.

Eventually they started grading cards, beautiful slabs as you can see. Not too many cards are out there with the venture 21 slab, and even fewer w the hologram one like mine... so I will never take my Kobe pmg out. Even though it will grade an 8.0 (raw card reviewed years back)


Here is a picture of an ad they used to run in Beckett featuring this case.


https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171019/0d90b9076c19cd31192d7a2980ec0c1e.jpg

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[8collector34]

Three Lakers cards already?! Let's make it four.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4351/37084880372_cd383d38d7_b.jpg[/url]

[Tarheelsfan2012]

I've probably picked up less than 10 cards all year so this one is an easy choice.
https://sportscardalbum.com/c/73dak17ex450.jpg (https://sportscardalbum.com/card/73dak17e)

[the27guy]

I've probably picked up less than 10 cards all year so this one is an easy choice.
https://sportscardalbum.com/c/73dak17ex450.jpg (https://sportscardalbum.com/card/73dak17e)

Can't get much better than that!