Tuesday, June 10, 2025

A Blogger Inspired Purchase w/an Update

Are you ready for some flea market posts I hope so, because I have two to three posts worth of purchases that I'll be sharing soon.  There's even a card show purchase I made that hasn't been scanned and put away.

On a more productive note, I did scan two care packages containing forty-six cards for my 2006 Topps Allen & Ginter set build.  The first one was a PWE from Bo (@ Baseball Cards Come to Life!) containing eighteen cards for my set:



Greg over at The Collective Mind sent me thirty-nine cardsEleven were cards that Bo also sent.  Twenty-eight were unique:



The two bloggers helped bring my 2006 Topps A&G wantlist from 130 cards down to 84.  

Before

After

Thanks to Bo and Greg.... the set build is 76% complete (266/350) with 25 of the 84 missing cards being short prints.  My Sportlots focus will be on my 2011 Topps Update set, but as soon as that is complete I'm gonna try and wrap this one up.

In the meantime... here are a trio of Magic the Gathering Doctor Who cards I purchased off of eBay last week:

2023 Magic The Gathering Universes
Beyond Doctor Who #0148

2023 Magic The Gathering Universes
Beyond Doctor Who #0005

2023 Magic The Gathering Universes
Beyond Doctor Who #0003

I remember seeing Doctor Who pop up on PBS when I was a kid, but I never stuck around to watch it.  Then in the mid 2000's, I started watching the show when The Ninth and Tenth Doctors were piloting the Tardis with Rose Tyler.

Joe over at The Shlabotnik Report showed off The Fourth Doctor on his blog, which motivated me to pick up these three.

Well that's an update on my 2006 Topps Allen & Ginter set build as well as my latest blog inspired purchase.

My next post will most likely be the first half of my flea market finds from three weeks ago.  Until then...

Happy Tuesday and sayonara!

6 comments:

Bo said...

Glad to help!

Johnnys Trading Spot said...

You're moving right along with that set build.

GCA said...

Let me know when you embark on all the Ginter sets since that one! :)

Shlabotnik Report said...

Nice Doctor Who cards! I'll have to keep an eye out for more of these. The Fourth Doctor will always be my favorite, but I'll never forget the excitement I felt when I first saw The Ninth Doctor and realized that the people behind this new version "got it".

"Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!" :-D

Nick Vossbrink said...

Ah. Ginter back when it still had good non-baseball cards. Sorta surprised you don't have the Duke Kahanamoku card already though.

Chris said...

You're making some great progress with those set builds! And the Doctor Who cards are very nice.