The end of the school year might have been a little busy and stressful, but I try my hardest to set aside the first and third Saturdays of the month for flea markets. This post is going to focus on half of my purchases made back on May 17th at the Branham High School Flea Market.
That day I spent the majority of my time with one vendor and everything I'm about to show off came from him. It was the first time I had seen him out there and the first thing I stumbled across was a box of one dollar items.
Purchase #1: Playing Cards $5
My friends and I run a board game club at school, so these decks of cards will be added to our collection of games.
Right next to the dollar box were three boxes filled with two dollar items. There were a bunch of sealed action figures, Funko Pops, and other miscellaneous toys with beat up packaging. Imagine the toy section at Ross or Marshalls.
Purchase #2: Stranger Things Comic & Figures $2
I had never seen these before, but I'm a big fan of the Stranger Things franchise. The main thing I wanted was the comic and the packaging was in poor condition, so I opened it up.
The item is meant to be displayed:
I don't have the space for that, so I tossed the comic into my collection and gave the figurines to my co-worker's son.
Purchase #3: Graphic Novel $2
I bought a 1st printing copy back in 2013. But since it's kind of a valuable book... I never opened it. This copy is a hard cover and it's not in the best condition, so now I'm going to read it.
The vendor also had some boxes of cards. One of them was a monster box full of relics, autographs, and numbered cards for two bucks each. I stood there and flipped through every card.
Purchase #4: An Encapsulated Card $2
2024 Wild Card Decades Preview National Exclusive
21st Century Green Rainbow Foil #2D3-F3 (#'d 3/10)
I put together a stack of eight or nine cards... hoping he'd take off a buck or two.
By the time I was finished with the two dollar box, the guy looking through the three for a buck boxes was finished. I spent the next thirty minutes digging through them.
Purchase #5: Three Cards for a Buck $20
But I also found some interesting non-sports singles:
Not sure if they're worth 33¢ each, but I don't come across Japanese Star Wars or Steve-O cards very often.
The boxes were filled a lot of sleeved rookie cards and parallels. That was the bulk of my purchase:
The final purchase from this vendor is by far my favorite...
Purchase #6: Box Bottoms $3
Purchase #6: Box Bottoms $3
While digging through the card boxes, I noticed he had some empty boxes under his table. Inside were three empty 2014 Panini Golden Age boxes with three card panel box panels:
I opened up three boxes of this product myself back in 2019. I'm hoping I saved these panels, because I'd love to build both panel sets (red and black).
Well that wraps up the first half of my Branham High School Flea Market finds. I titled this the appetizer, because the next post contains one of my favorite finds of all-time.
Until then...
Happy Tuesday and sayonara!
12 comments:
I haven't dug through any boxes, since about the same time you made these purchases. I might be getting "itchy". Nice finds as always, and looking forward to the the rest of the finds.
The box bottoms are a bit interesting. I have a feeling I'd be a lot pickier if I went to that flea market.
Hooray for flea market posts! The playing cards look cool, I'm a Famke Janssen fan, and I love the box bottoms.
There’s a flea market here in a couple of weeks. I am hoping to go and find some deals like these!
Nice Skubal rookies!
More cool pick ups. Keep 'em coming! Our town hasn't had a real flea market in years. They are a lot of fun if you have the time to pick.
johnnys trading spot - no boxes? definitely scratch that itch buddy. by the way... i'm FINALLY planning on tearing into the box you sent me last month. it'll happen this week for sure
night owl - i'm sort of a pack rack. i collect just about everything. it's a problem :D
dennis - if you want the janssen, it's yours. i thought she was hot in x-men, so i grabbed it. but i have no problem sending it your way
gcrl - i hope you make it out there. i'd love to see a flea market finds post on your blog :D. have fun!
jeremya1um - i didn't open any product from that year, so i'm glad to have some in my collection now.
karsal - there's a flea market a few miles from my house that is open a few days a week, but it's a lot of junk. the only two i really like are the high school and community college ones. although... once temperatures reach the 90's... i'll be headed into hibernation :D
I need to get the Chevy Chase 80s card like that one from wild card!
I love your Flea Market series because even though the cards are the focus you find many other interesting finds, some are right up my alley. I had to chuckle seeing the Jackass cards because first I never knew they existed, and second because after including Fuddy Duddy in my title of my last post I immediately thought of Chris Pontius' song Karazy from the second film's soundtrack. Mind you I haven't though of Pontius' name in well over 10 years but it just came to mind. So seeing that card was well worth checking out your finds. Can't wait to see the main course if this is only the appetizer.
No thanks, Fuji--I don't collect her, just like her as an actress.
I really enjoy your Flea Market Finds posts. Those 9 Michael Jordan were a steal. I am trying to complete the 92 Skybox Team USA set and need seven of the Jordan cards. Needless to say I am jealous that you got such a great price on all nine.
I'm not a huge Batman fan, but I read The Killing Joke years ago and I remember really liking it (and being disturbed by it, as one should be by a Joker-centric story)
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