A recent card show produced with better than usual dime boxes! Every card in the first three scans was in a dime box. Don't believe me? I'm not lying!
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2007 and 2008 Moments and Milestones. What a couple of weirdly conceived sets. But for dimes, I will not be leaving these in the box!
OK, back to that stack from one of my favorite dealers. It took me about a half hour, but I built a stack of around 25-30 cards from his stock. I'm pretty sure that the Brett, Sabathia and O'Neill refractor in the last scan were in the stack. And the main card I was interested in was this one:
Sweet card!! It had a price tag of $15 on it, which might be fair, but I am a notorious cheapskate, and wouldn't pay that much for it. I carted the stack of cards over to the dealer and asked how much for all of them, hoping for one of his bulk discounts. I told him I really wanted the Luzinski, which at the time, I thought was a mistake. But he hemmed and hawed for a minute before saying, "buy the Luzinski at full price and I'll throw in the rest". Yahtzee!
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Ok, end of the dime box bonanza. Obviously, I grabbed far more dime cards than those shown, many of which were just as good as the ones I decided to scan.
Oddballs galore. Just a lot of fun here. I usually strongly prefer Eddie Murray in an Orioles uniform, but this Indians copy might be my favorite of this bunch.
Here are some I grabbed from various other places. Some were in quarter boxes, some in 50 cent boxes and some from a stack I built at one table that I paid for in bulk. More on that further down!
Gotta love those good quality dealers. I guess that's why I keep going back to him!
Nice pickups! Nothing in those first few scans screams dime to me so I think you got some amazing deals
ReplyDeleteNice pickups! I remember those Moments and Milestones sets and I think the big thing about those was every card being serial numbered back when they came out. There was also a Dice-K rookie in the ‘07 set that drove the product.
ReplyDeleteMan...finding Kershaw, Miggy, and David Wright in a dime box is always good, but low SN cards of them? Wow.
ReplyDeleteDidn't mean to leave out Piazza~!
DeleteNegotiating over Luzinski in this day and age! That does my heart good. The Bull was a great player, especially with the Phillies.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to a show for awhile, but this looks like the kind of stuff I remember from dime boxes.
ReplyDeleteGreat finds, love that Luzinski.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you found a great dime box. The Luzinski looks really nice too.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that's a real auto, so the Luzinski wins it easily.
ReplyDeleteBut if it's a facsimile, the serial numbered Miggy wins it, with the fancy Boggs close behind.
Love that Spot-bilt Brett! One of my childhood buddies had that card... and I always wanted a copy. Pretty sure I added it to my collection awhile back. Probably paid way more than you though.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Sweet Luzinski!
Great pickups! As a longtime Ripken fan/ collector, I am partial to those cards. I recently went to a card shop and loaded up on dime cards. Spent the better part of an hour going through the dime boxes.
ReplyDeleteAlways love dealers who are willing to knock a few bucks off their stuff. Makes me wanna shop with them even more. Also, those unlicensed '90s oddballs are weirdly endearing in a way I can't explain.
ReplyDeleteAwesome pickups and autograph!
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