Pickups for my Collection Archives - Page 12 of 14

Stolen Card Story Takes an Interesting Turn …

Last Tuesday, I was writing about how I bought a card off ebay, and the seller refunded the money, then turned around and sold it to someone else who contacted them after I bought it, saying they would pay more for it. As a quick re-cap, here is the card: Beautiful, huh? It was the same day I secured my 1990 Donruss Aqueous, but I was really looking forward to this gorgeous # to 10, dual patch card of Canseco also. With this release, Panini broke the several year silence of Canseco jersey cards. I remember seeing the first "major"

EXCITING Ebay Purchase! Then Seller Refunds and Sells to Someone Else. Block this dude.

Yesterday as I was going through ebay, I found a card I really wanted. A 2013 Panini dual patch card of Jose Canseco. #2 of 10. I saw it and just had to have it! Nice dual patch, #'ed to 10. What isn't to like? I know many of you aren't into this kind of card, but for me ... this is what I'm about! After talking to him, he said he would take $25 for it, to which I said .... After promptly paying, and going about my business for the day, I couldn't help but notice myself daydreaming

A PC Item … One Year in the Making

Hanging out with Jose brought a happy ending and closure to many story lines in my collection. Among them was something that I had been searching for a very, very long time. The greatest moment for me in baseball was the 1989 World Series, when the A's crushed the Giants, sweeping them in devastating fashion. This of course, was the year the earth quake hit as well. I was living in California at the time, and remember being glued to the television for game three at Candlestick park. The introductions were playing, and they showed Willie Mays waving to the

Chasing Canseco – Best Day Ever

Last thursday morning marked the start of our 4,000 mile / 10 day family road trip. The plan was to go to hoover dam, the beach in California, LEGOLAND, carlsbad caverns, visit a friend in the mountains, roswell (yes, I am an alien nerd!), the grand canyon and several other things. The most important one for me, however, was to go to Las Vegas and have my customs signed by my childhood hero, Jose Canseco. As you may know, the flip quests I do are inspired by the red paper clip story - where one person goes from trading a red

The Great-Grand Gold Border

In the early 90's, I believe it was, a new, cutting edge type of comic book came out by the name of the Walking Dead. It was a very limited run. I was not into comics, nor am I now (though I do enjoy the thought of having them, plus, I've sold about 40,000 of them over the past 4 years or so.) When the tv show hit, the prices sky-rocketed. Whenever I would sell a lot of comics, the first question was "Got any Walking Dead?" The answer would always be no. Why? Because they were very scarce ...

Pacific Embossed Cards and the Incognito Effect

I've had a LOT of awesome pickups recently, but here is a more unique one. I was cruising online to see if anyone had a nice lot of Canseco I did not have, and lo & behold, someone had something that I hadn't ever seen before. Pacific Show/Expo embossed cards. They are cool enough w/out a back story, but the history of them make them definitely worthwhile. You cannot really tell they are embossed until you tilt them in the light, and then they pop. Back in the 90's, Pacific setup at card shows with a promotion where you could

Aliens, Junk Wax Variations and White Whales

In January, we had a pre-teen Bible study at our house, and I was talking to the kids about how vast the universe is. As I'm sure you can imagine since it was a Bible study, we then went from how incredible the universe is to how awesome God is who created it all. If you disagree and are rolling your eyes, don't worry - I'll get to the baseball card bit here soon, and it will all tie in together shortly, I promise :) Here are some interesting points: - The earth is huge, right? The sun is

Story Time!

If you have been reading my posts for a while, you know that I'm not your typical blogger. I don't really have a rhyme or reason to much of what I write. There is very little cohesiveness in my articles, and my segues are a bit of a stretch, to say the least. I don't check for spelling, because writing is fun, and proof reading is not. I'm considered the family dictionary (and calculator), yet I almost left segue above as segway. They are meant to read more like a journal, I suppose. Not that I'm that particularly interesting of

Seller Demands Double Payment for Wrinkled Cards

From time to time, I seem to get in some streaks of awesome luck... (a TTM custom autograph from a member of Vampire Diaries - she put To Tanner on the back ... cool!) or horrible luck... (yes, that IS paper in my breakfast sammich that I took a bite out of this morning!) I know, in the grand scheme of things, not horrible - actually, it is funny, hence the picture! I generally do not classify paper in my breakfast to be horrible luck, nor would I consider it bad luck when a wasp decides to land on my

Fantastic New Additions to the PC, Some Customs and More!

Another busy week here at the offices of Mouschi, inc. Firstly, I know I don't show off much non Canseco stuff, but take a look at this beauty: A Bobby Doerr Topps Tribute patch! It is always nice getting in game used patch cards of players that played several decades ago. Could it be a fake? Could someone have actually torn this card apart ... a REAL Bobby Doerr Topps card and swap out a plain old relic for a patch? And if so, how? Well, let me show you. Simply take this card: Saw it in half: and put

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