Dime Cards and Card Flipping

The whole card flipping thing can become a little addicting.  The past year or so, I've really enjoyed padding my savings account with profits from eBay and card show sales.  Sadly the little experiment will likely come to an end within the year and it primarily comes down to two things:

#1:  I'm running out of stuff to sell.

I have thousands and thousands of cards cluttering my office, garage, classroom, and dad's garage, but it's not like I'm trying to sell my collection.  I love collecting.  The stuff that I've been selling have been mostly high-end duplicates and sticker-graphs of hall of famers.  And the well is starting to run dry.  Most of the decent inventory consists of graded cards which don't seem to be as popular as they once were.

#2:  It's a lot of work.

I pretty much stopped selling on eBay last summer, because scanning and listing items took a lot of time.  Another thing I wasn't a fan of was dealing with packages and standing in lines at the post office.  Plus I wasn't sure at what point they would be sending out 1099's.

As for card shows, they're a little more my style.  But as much as I enjoy hanging out with friends and talking shop... sitting on a chair for twelve hours is not good for my back.  Sure I'll stand and stretch every now and then... but physically I'd rather be walking around the show than sitting at a table.  Then there's the research and organization that needs to be done prior to setting up.  I spent several hours each day leading up to the show figuring out the current market rate for certain cards.

That being said... last weekend's show was a huge success.  I made three big sales... and one huge one that made the twelve hour day worthwhile.  I even found an hour to slip away from my table to dig into some dime boxes and dollar bins.

Some of the stuff is for care packages.  I'll set aside a few cards for a future card draft over at The Diamond King.  And the rest will either go into my collection or trade box.

Today I figured I'd show off a sampling from the two purchases I made...

Purchase #1:  Dime Box Singles $10

I didn't get a chance to walk around until after 7pm, which meant any dime boxes I discovered had been well picked through.  But I did manage to find 108 cards from one guy's boxes.  I'll go ahead and show off some red in honor of National Wear Red Day (last Friday):

2018 Finest Sitting Red #SR-MO

In an effort to raise awareness for women's heart disease, Collecting Cutch promotes this special day on his blog and shows off some seriously cool cards featuring the color red.

1998 Pacific Aurora Pennant Fever Red #7

The Olson and Pudge cards were the reddest cards in the dime box purchase.  However this was the oldest red card I picked up:

1974 Topps Team Checklists #NNO

It's cool to see Dave Winfield's rookie signature along with Willie McCovey.  Plus someone decided to have a player sign this card or they thought it would be fun to add their signature to it.  Over the weekend, I asked Rod over at Padrographs if he recognized the signature, but he didn't.

There were several small stacks of 1976 and 1978 Topps baseball.  I grabbed some of the more common names among fans like...

1976 Topps #548

1978 Topps #510

Here's one more from the 1978 set...

1978 Topps #312

I feel like I have a copy of this card sitting in my vintage box, but this card was in really nice shape so I added it to my stack.  Not sure what the deal is... but Minton's face seems airbrushed.

Moving along into the 80's, I was very happy to find this sitting in a stack of 1986 Topps Traded cards...

1986 Topps Traded #50T

I already own a copy, but it's part of the set.  Now I have a copy for my 80's rookie card box.

Here are two more 1986 Topps cards, but from another sport...

1986 Topps #203

For those who don't know... Largent is my all-time favorite football player.  I couldn't leave this card sitting in a dime box.  I picked out a few other hall of famers from this set, but instead of showing them... here's a Cincinnati Bengal instead:

1986 Topps #258

I'll be rooting for the Bengals next weekend... just like I rooted for them the other two times they went to the Super Bowl.  Hopefully the third time is the charm.  Collinsworth played on both of those teams.  He might not have a gold jacket, but he was a very notable receiver during the 80's.

Time to wrap things up with a few cards from the 90's...

1990 Leaf #107

1990 Leaf #167

I just can't pass up dime box rookie cards of members in the Hall of Pretty Good... especially when they're from the iconic 1990 Leaf set.

And I have no idea how, but somehow this card was left behind in these dime boxes...

1991 Topps Desert Shield #285

I know there are tons of counterfeit cards from this set, so I turn to the experts out there to help me verify the authenticity of this card.  Here's a closer look at the stamp:

Based on a Net54 forum post, the bottom should be rounded, but mine looks pretty flat.  Oh well... even if it's a fake... it'll just be sitting in the Abbott section of my Binder PC.

I think I'm going to cut things off here.  This post has dragged on long enough.  I'll try to show off some cards from my dollar box purchase either on Thursday or maybe next week.

Let me know if you have any thoughts on the Greg Minton, Jim Abbott, or any other cards from my dime box purchase in the comment section below.

Happy Tuesday and sayonara!