Showing posts with label 1986 O-Pee-Chee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1986 O-Pee-Chee. Show all posts

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Autographed Cards

























Both of these cards were given to me by friends.  One about 25 years ago as a kid, the OPC a couple of months ago by a friend.  I've said before, and I'm saying it again, I'll take any Wallach you have, regardless of shape/condition.  Even if it has rips, tears, or writing on it.  And to me, that's really all these cards are.  Two cards with writing on them.  I count them towards their respective totals, but they're far from prized.

It's not that I'm against autographs.  Far from it.  It's just that autographs that I didn't get in person, do very little for me.  They're like tokens of somebody else's memory.  There are some exceptions.  For instance, my most prized autograph is a Tim Wallach card I got via SASE as a kid.  Also every year, my old man gets me a birthday gift from Steiner Collectibles using credit card reward points.  This year he got me an 8x10 autographed Derek Jeter photo.  I love it.  But more as a nice piece to frame and hang on the wall.

In any event, I felt these cards deserved their own post as items in the collection.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

1986 O-Pee-Chee #217















Card Review: 8.8 I often felt that O-Pee-Chee just looked like an inferior knock-off of the Topps card.  Like something someone was counterfeiting out of a garage.  The '86 really give off that vibe.  I've softened a lot on that stance as a whole, and actually prefer the O-Pee-Chee over Topps in a few instances, but '86 isn't one of those years. 

Fun Facts:  The O-Pee-Chee factory had notoriously dull blades.  That fact is very evident in these black bordered '86 cards.

Number of this card in my collection: 5
2012 update: 8
2013 update: 9
2014 update: 10
2015 update: n/a
2016 update: n/a
2016 update: 11
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: 12
2019 update: 16
2020 update: 18
2021 update: 20
2022 update: 21
2023 update: n/a
2024 update: n/a
2025 update: 22