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2009 Donruss Americana Movie Posters

Standardchuck — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:16:37 +0000

Here’s the list, let’s trade! Strikethrough for cards that I have. (d) for doubles.

Movie Posters Materials

1 Orson Welles 491/500

2 Marlon Brando 500

3 William Holden 40

4 Bette Davis 184/500

5 Humphrey Bogart 250

6 Henry Fonda 500

7 Humphrey Bogart 250

8 Peter Sellers 500

9 Jimmy Stewart 250

10 Humphrey Bogart 500

11 Gary Cooper 500

12 Clark Gable 40/125

13 Cary Grant 500

14 Lillian Gish 500

15 Vivien Leigh 500

16 Cary Grant 105/500

17 Burt Lancaster 50

18 James Dean 75

19 Frank Sinatra 500

20 Charlie Chaplin 020/500

21 William Holden 40

22 Charlie Chaplin 500

23 Edward G. Robinson 50

24 Montgomery Clift 250

25 Jack Lemmon 500

26 John Wayne 500

27 Katharine Hepburn (Damaged)146/500

28 Spencer Tracy (damaged)219/500

29 James Cagney 500

30 Liza Minelli 500

31 Elizabeth Taylor 500

32 Henry Fonda 167/500

33 Fred Astaire 245/500

34 Katharine Hepburn 012/500

35 Spencer Tracy 450/500

36 Cary Grant 500

37 Cary Grant 235/500

38 Cary Grant 500

39 Cary Grant 500

40 Leslie Howard 250

41 Bette Davis 119/500

~~42 Gregory Peck 094/500 (incoming)~~

43 Greta Garbo 328/500

44 Jane Russell 337/500

45 Spencer Tracy 451/500

46 Marlene Dietrich 285/500

47 Fred Astaire 112/500

48 Gary Cooper 500

49 Elizabeth Taylor 500

50 Greer Garson 500

51 Gary Cooper 376/500

52 Barbara Stanwyck 438/500

53 John Wayne 500

54 Ginger Rogers 500

55 Mae West 202/500

56 Shirley Temple 500

57 Burt Lancaster 50

58 Humphrey Bogart 250

59 Sophia Loren 500

60 Robert Mitchum 500

61 Robert Mitchum 463/500

62 Carole Lombard 500

63 Katharine Hepburn 500

64 Gary Cooper 500

65 Marilyn Monroe 500

Movie Posters Combo Materials

1 Orson Welles / Agnes Moorehead 345/500

3 William Holden / Gloria Swanson 40

4 Bette Davis / Anne Baxter 500

5 Humphrey Bogart / Katharine Hepburn 250

7 Humphrey Bogart / Mary Astor 250

11 Gary Cooper / Grace Kelly 091/500

12 Clark Gable / Claudette Colbert 125

13 Cary Grant / James Mason 203/500

15 Vivien Leigh / Marlon Grando 500

16 Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn 500

17 Burt Lancaster / Montgomery Clift 50

18 James Dean / Natalie Wood 50

19 Frank Sinatra / Janet Leigh 500

21 William Holden / Ernest Borgnine 40

22 Charlie Chaplin / Claudette Colbert 500

23 Edward G. Robinson / Douglas 10

Fairbanks Jr.

24 Montgomery Clift / Elizabeth Taylor 250

26 John Wayne / Natalie Wood 500

27 Katharine Hepburn / Cary Grant 210/500

28 Spencer Tracy / Katharine Hepburn 284/500

31 Elizabeth Taylor / Richard Burton 500

33 Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers 500

34 Katharine Hepburn / Ginger Rogers (d)185/500

35 Spencer Tracy / Katharine Hepburn 358/500

36 Cary Grant / Ingrid Bergman 182/500

~~37 Cary Grant / Rosalind Russell 484/500 (incoming)~~

38 Cary Grant / Grace Kelly 500

39 Cary Grant / Loretta Young 500

40 Leslie Howard / Bette Davis 215/250

41 Bette Davis / Henry Fonda 242/500

42 Gregory Peck / Audrey Hepburn 500

43 Greta Garbo / Joan Crawford 083/500

44 Jane Russell / Marilyn Monroe 500

45 Spencer Tracy / Mickey Rooney 283/500

46 Marlene Dietrich / Gary Cooper 500

49 Elizabeth Taylor / Mickey Rooney 133/500

50 Greer Garson / Teresa Wright 114/500

51 Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwyck 396/500

52 Barbara Stanwyck / Henry Fonda 500

55 Mae West / Cary Grant 259/500

58 Humphrey Bogart / Lauren Bacall 25

61 Robert Mitchum / Shelly Winters 500

62 Carole Lombard / Jack Benny 439/500

64 Gary Cooper / Teresa Wright 500

Movie Posters Triple Materials

16 Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn / Jimmy 250

Stewart

17 Burt Lancaster / Montgomery Clift / 50

Deborah Kerr

18 James Dean / Natalie Wood / Sal Mineo 50

24 Montgomery Clift / Elizabeth Taylor / 100

Shelly Winters

34 Katharine Hepburn / Ginger Rogers / 500

Lucille Ball

40 Leslie Howard / Bette Davis / Humphrey 50

Bogart

61 Robert Mitchum / Shelly Winters / 420/500

Lillian Gish

64 Gary Cooper / Teresa Wright / Babe Ruth 15

Movie Posters Quad Materials

17 Burt Lancaster / Montgomery Clift / 100

Deborah Kerr / Donna Reed

Want List – 2008 Topps 50th Anniversary All-Star Rookies

Standardchuck — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:58:36 +0000

All card numbers start AR.

Needs – 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 108, 109

Haves – 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 18, 26, 27, 29, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 49, 54, 55, 61, 62, 63, 71, 74, 78, 84, 88, 89, 93, 97, 104, 107, 110

Doubles – 41, 55

2008 Allen & Ginter Hanley Rip It ripped

Standardchuck — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:53:23 +0000

Hello all. Its been a long time – since the last post, much has happened, including major life changes. Still, no excuse, here’s the Rip thing from the poll, in pictures. The video didn’t work, so I just took pictures.

Thanks to all the voters. Should have kept it unripped, but the mini could have been worse. BTW, anyone else get nervous extracting the mini from the rip card?

The RIP IT and contest update AKA still waiting…

Standardchuck — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:32:29 +0000

Hey all, especially the five entrants to the contest. I will eventually get around to doing the giveaway, with everyone getting something. Also, I’ll rip the Hanley and video it. However…it’ll take a few weeks. Business is booming and I won’t be free until the last week of April. I’m sorry for the delay.

Contest ends and posts can now resume…

Standardchuck — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:04:57 +0000

Thanks to the five commenters…you’ll all receive a prize! I’ll do the drawing for this either tonight or tomorrow.

I’ll also do the rip of the Rip card on video and post it in a day or two.

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Also, check out the latest post by iamjoecollector on eBay shipping costs. Enough to make your blood boil.

I’m a dummy…

Standardchuck — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:28:13 +0000

I can’t figure out how to keep the Vote-Contest (Votest) post on top, so I’m not going to post anything new other than this short note. Lots of box breaks recently, I’ll write about them as well as today’s trip to Chantilly with Beardy after April 1.

Please link to the contest/poll…I promise it will be worth your while.

It’s a Votest: Rip it or Not – 2008 Allen & Ginter

Standardchuck — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:49:25 +0000

I was able to snag this Rip card of Hanley Ramirez for about fifty dollars and now I’m tempted to rip it open. I’ll be honest – the logical Chuck side is telling me to keep it intact since the last time I had a Rip card (2006 case), all I got was a high numbered mini of some schlub. The illogical side of me wants to open up a red auto or a 1/1 and make about twenty bucks profit. Still, do I really want to rip a Hanley card for a gamble?


All the gamble was soaked out of me from my recent Vegas jaunt, so I'll leave it up to you guys, the readers.
Please vote and I'll carry out your wishes, dear reader.  Also, in exchange, please leave a comment on this post and you'll be entered into a random drawing for the following prizes.  One comment per person, please.  Also, if you wouldn't mind, please advertise this post so that I can get a lot of votes and have a large sample size to make this decision.  The more votes/comments, the more prizes.

5 commenters – one person gets 6 Hanley base cards (2010 Heritage #300, 2010 Topps #4 and #600, 2010 Update #150, 279, 329)


10 commenters - one person gets five (5) 2011 History of Topps cards (HOT 1, 3, 4, 9, 10) 

15 commenters - one person gets a Rogers Hornsby SP #44 
20 commenters - one person gets a black parallel card of Carlos Santana #209 (43/60) 
25 commenters - one person gets a Topps 60 Brian McCann auto 
30 commenters - one person gets three 2007 Allen & Ginter relic cards (Prince Fielder, Hank Blalock, Marcus Giles)
50 or more commenters - one person gets the following 12 cards:

2000 Upper Deck Pro Sign Shareef Abdur-Rahim auto
2005 Donruss Champions #55 Doug Mientkiewicz bat relic
2006 Topps Triple Threads Gold Travis Hafner triple relic /9
2007 Fleer Ultra Faces of the Game Omar Vizquel bat relic
2007 Fleer Ultra Hit Machine Nick Swisher jersey relic
2007 Fleer Ultra Strikezone Johan Santana relic
2008 Topps 2007 Highlights Rafael Furcal jersey relic
2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces Rashard Mendenhall jersey
2008 Upper Deck X Sean Casey jersey relic
2008-9 Upper Deck Hockey Series 2 Alexander Ovechkin oversized card
2009 Upper Deck SP Authentic Football Patch Auto Glen Coffee /999
2010 Leaf Certified Raymond Berry jersey HOF /250

The end of this contest will be April 1, 2011.

Phew that was a long shill…no need to follow or anything, since I don’t post enough to demand a regular readership. Help this indecisive guy decide what to do with his rip card!

Back from Vegas…

Standardchuck — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:27:59 +0000

…and boy are my legs tired. No joke, living a commuter existence means that the moderate amount of walking done in Vegas resulted in achy legs. Luckily, that’s one of only a few complaints from the conference trip to Vegas, and the rest are just the general, run of the mill travel bellyaches. One particularly sad commentary of this American life: three out of four flights, a show, and a shuttle ride, my adjacent seat partners was orca fat. I am by no means thin and, excluding one jack-ace of a smelly douche at the only show I partook, all were nice and cognizant of their size. There was an equitable sharing of space usually, but it still required some craning on my part. Wow, I sound like such a whiny schmuck.

OK, first the card connection: I met PunkRockPaint. The PunkRockPaint of http://punkrockpaint.blogspot.com/ fame. Sorry for the http address, but WordPress doesn’t want to hyperlink right now. (corrected)

If you don’t know T’s work at PunkRockPaint, then I don’t know what you’re doing with your blog reading life. The guy makes amazing custom cards and graphics work, and get this, he does most of it using MS Paint. His Lost Retro card set is epic…check it out - http://punkrockpaint.blogspot.com/2009/07/lost-retro-baseball-card-gallery.html

To the right, you can see one of my favorites from the set, based on the Denny’s holographic cards from the 90′s.

You can read about our completely randome, LOTR slot machine meeting on his blog, as he’s described it better than I can. What a lucky coincidence to look over and see a username that’s also the name of one of your favorite blogs!

Now, the one unique wrinkle I can add to the story: after PunkRockPaint’s lovely girlfriend and her mother arrive to whisk away the artiste, I cash out my nice slot machine win and head toward the bill breaker machine. Two guys, playing adjacent LOTR machines, stop me to ask who I was talking to. Apparently, they overhead me complimenting Paint’s work to his girlfriend, leading to me stating earnestly that it was a pleasant surprise to meet the famous PRP. The guys wanted to know the identity of the celebrity that I had just met (they’re words). I explained that PRP is a world famous blogger and artist, they asked me if I was someone (a poor choice of a question in my opinion), and I had to laugh. No, I’m just the guy who got lucky with a slot machine to get to meet a fellow blogger.

T, great meeting you…now, make a set for us to buy!

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Two non-sports, non-blogging Vegas notes:

First, poker – 1-2 NL cash games, about 8 hours total, down about $30, but only after a bad call costed me about 300. Tournaments, played two, one at Caesars and one at the Venetian. Final tabled both, but only cashed in the Venetian. Net win, 150, total time, nine hours. If I had to do it over, I’d spend all my time at the cash game. If you’re a tight smart player and pick your spots, even without catching card you can be a profitable player at both Caesars and Venetian.

Second, the best promotion ever is the Binion’s opportunity to take a photograph with one million dollars. The results of the free portraits must result in epic amounts of unintentional humor: tourists, alcohol, cameras…this should be a FailBlog affiliate – Not Having Fun photo site. Anyway, I waited the requisite 30 minutes, walked over to the desk where the processed photos were waiting. In the slot holding about 20 “single person” photos was this gem. I wanted to abandon my own big smile picture and grab this slice of grim Americana, but didn’t think it would be right to steal it. Foiled again by morals!

Do you think she was forced into posing by those crafty Binions marketers? Maybe she was desperate for the coupons that gave you something or other if you got the picture? Maybe it was a prop bet?

I like to think that she’s on the trip on her soon-to-be ex-husband’s dime after he something or othered. She wanted proof of this spiteful sojourn, but, surrounded by lights, chimes, dings, and a flash, she realizes that her revenge is as elusive as a jackpot. She is tired. She wants to sit somewhere outside, exposed in the sun, feeling the prickles of sweat as her pale skin burns. She doesn’t wait for the picture; she’s gone.

Or some crap like that – who cares, cause it’s a brilliant picture.

New Set to Collect – 1996 Bronze Leaf Signature Series

Standardchuck — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:14:41 +0000

Last night, in a fit of non-sleeping eBay perusing, I came to the conclusion that I need a new set to collect. Right now, the collecting has been adding Hanley Ramirez cards, the Donruss Americana Movie Poster materials cards, and half hearted collections of base cards of Shin Soo Choo. Others have gone to the wayside (the Cards Your Momma Threw Out and the “a HOF base each” collections are kaput) while others are too expensive for me (Nolan Ryan autos). I’ve stopped trying to collect sets, never tried for a complete rainbow (the Hanley SpX seems impossible).

So, here’s what I purchased to give myself a new goal – I randomly bought a 1996 Leaf Signature Series bronze auto base card of #140 John Mabry for $1.75 (plus $2.50 shipping). I’m sure most of these will be cheap at card shows, shops and on eBay. The set is comprised of 253 (one unnumbered card, Frank Thomas) cards. The print run on the set seems to be 3500 copies, with the SPs running between 700 and 1000 copies.

Introducing the new initiative…let’s see how long I do this before burning out on searching for Bobby Witt’s autograph.

2011 Topps Series 1 Hobby Box Break

Standardchuck — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:29 +0000

On the way home tonight, I stopped at the LHS and got a hobby box. Let’s see how we did:

Hanleys – base #20 and Toppstown TT-45

Giveaway – 6 cards

Parallels

Diamond – 9 cards: 32 Chris Johnson, 76 Tom Gorzelanny, 105 Jonathan Lucroy, 113 Arthur Rhodes, 154 Marlon Byrd, 191 Jay Bruce, 217 Yunel Escobar, 230 Aaron Cook, 267 Jose Contreras
Gold – 5 cards /2011: 46 Hong-Chih Kuo, 93 Paul Konerko, 307 Alex Rios, 311 James Shields, 327 Cristian Guzman
Black – 1 card /60: 209 Carlos Santana

Inserts

History of Topps – 2 cards: 4, 9
CMGR – 4 cards: 1, 14, 20, 23
Kimball Champions – 9 cards: 1 Ubaldo Jimenez, 6 Clay Buchholz, 10 Ichiro, 31 Nelson Cruz, 32 Alex Rios, 33 Martin Prado, 38 Roy Oswalt, 39 CC Sabathia, 46 Mel Ott
Duos – 9 cards: SC, MP, HH, VG, HHO, GT, KA, HM, LZ
Topps 60 – 9 cards: 1 Ryan Howard, 11 Troy Tulowitzki, 17 Dale Murphy, 20 Manny Ramirez, 31 Justin Upton, 35 Frank Thomas, 48 Buster Posey, 50 Miguel Cabrera
Lost Cards – 15 cards: 2 1953 Campanella, 4 1954 Campanella, 7 1955 Feller, 9 1956 Musial, 12 1963 Frank Robinson, 19 1970 Jackson, 23 1974 Schmidt, 25 1976 Yount, 36 1987 Eckersley, 37 1988 Maddux, 44 1995 Larkin, 46 1997 Rivera, 49 2000 Rodriguez, 56 2007 Tulowitzki, 57 2008 Cueto
Lost Cards Original Backs – 2 cards: 186 1955 Whitey Ford, 701 1990 Bernie Williams

Auto/Gamer – Topps 60 AutographL T60A-BM Brian McCann