W_Raoul2
01-25-2014, 07:56 PM
Let's start with the redemptions, shall we? Great.
Got these two in today from Fedex. Through sleet and snow, right? Or is that the USPS? Anyways!
Two separate mailers, both packaged well, no tape on the toploaders, which did allow some movement but lucky the bubble wrap was tight enough to prevent the end from sticking out of the toploader.
These came in two separate mailers, which is odd to me, but I guess Topps loves paying Fedex. Onto the cards!
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vpcv7-nJOHk/UuQji_MfV_I/AAAAAAAAR2g/jaiWD4l2tiI/s640/IMG_0012.jpg
I gotta admit, I wasn't too pumped on the idea of a Purple parallel on anything. But these actually look really sharp. Big fan of the Silver Sigs this year. (Well, minus the next part.)
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-At46ro8tSfE/UuQjlAvlH7I/AAAAAAAAR2w/OTNfQYwBuRA/s640/IMG_0013.jpg
This is the only one that's bugged me so far. Great card, beautiful signature, yadda, yadda, etc etc. But my only gripe is as follows. This is the gold parallel, /10, third lowest in the set next to the /5 and 1/1. It should be a big deal. But the only difference between this and the base is the foil around the Silver Signatures logo. Really expected more from the Gold parallel. Could have done a cooler background like every other color. But alas, I guess I'll just have to deal with this. :)! Not complaining too much, just was hoping for a big WOW card.
To see what I'm talking about, or to just check out the base Silver Signatures here:
http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/baseball/652166-another-kershaw-redemption-mailday-topps-five-star-edition-3-scans.html
Onto the weirder stuff now!
As some of you may know, I like to see cards, and picture them together, and make it happen. It's a quirk, but it doesn't hurt the cards, and I think they look even better as a pair.
http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/baseball/489243-only-instance-where-prime-cuts-will-cool-imo.html
After organized my bucket a little more, I saw two of my favorite cards that were similar and looked at my box of the new vertical booklet magnetics (which I wish Blowout would start carrying... wink wink), and having a few extra decoys laying around my desk, I decided to go to work. And I've gotta say I think I'm in love. Without further yapping:
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa413/W_Raoul2/SCF%20scans/F36C82A3-9513-4306-837A-F5A02BE68ED9.jpg (http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/W_Raoul2/media/SCF%20scans/F36C82A3-9513-4306-837A-F5A02BE68ED9.jpg.html)
Simply awesome, if you ask me.
My only question is this: Do you think it'd look better with a black decoy in between? Or should I keep the white? It's a nightmare to cut them down to 4.5 16ths of an inch, but it's so killer looking.
Geez, I got a bit carried away. If you read it all, you're my hero. Thanks for sticking around until the end.
And as always, thanks for the read! :)
Got these two in today from Fedex. Through sleet and snow, right? Or is that the USPS? Anyways!
Two separate mailers, both packaged well, no tape on the toploaders, which did allow some movement but lucky the bubble wrap was tight enough to prevent the end from sticking out of the toploader.
These came in two separate mailers, which is odd to me, but I guess Topps loves paying Fedex. Onto the cards!
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vpcv7-nJOHk/UuQji_MfV_I/AAAAAAAAR2g/jaiWD4l2tiI/s640/IMG_0012.jpg
I gotta admit, I wasn't too pumped on the idea of a Purple parallel on anything. But these actually look really sharp. Big fan of the Silver Sigs this year. (Well, minus the next part.)
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-At46ro8tSfE/UuQjlAvlH7I/AAAAAAAAR2w/OTNfQYwBuRA/s640/IMG_0013.jpg
This is the only one that's bugged me so far. Great card, beautiful signature, yadda, yadda, etc etc. But my only gripe is as follows. This is the gold parallel, /10, third lowest in the set next to the /5 and 1/1. It should be a big deal. But the only difference between this and the base is the foil around the Silver Signatures logo. Really expected more from the Gold parallel. Could have done a cooler background like every other color. But alas, I guess I'll just have to deal with this. :)! Not complaining too much, just was hoping for a big WOW card.
To see what I'm talking about, or to just check out the base Silver Signatures here:
http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/baseball/652166-another-kershaw-redemption-mailday-topps-five-star-edition-3-scans.html
Onto the weirder stuff now!
As some of you may know, I like to see cards, and picture them together, and make it happen. It's a quirk, but it doesn't hurt the cards, and I think they look even better as a pair.
http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/baseball/489243-only-instance-where-prime-cuts-will-cool-imo.html
After organized my bucket a little more, I saw two of my favorite cards that were similar and looked at my box of the new vertical booklet magnetics (which I wish Blowout would start carrying... wink wink), and having a few extra decoys laying around my desk, I decided to go to work. And I've gotta say I think I'm in love. Without further yapping:
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa413/W_Raoul2/SCF%20scans/F36C82A3-9513-4306-837A-F5A02BE68ED9.jpg (http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/W_Raoul2/media/SCF%20scans/F36C82A3-9513-4306-837A-F5A02BE68ED9.jpg.html)
Simply awesome, if you ask me.
My only question is this: Do you think it'd look better with a black decoy in between? Or should I keep the white? It's a nightmare to cut them down to 4.5 16ths of an inch, but it's so killer looking.
Geez, I got a bit carried away. If you read it all, you're my hero. Thanks for sticking around until the end.
And as always, thanks for the read! :)