Showing posts with label 1986 Topps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1986 Topps. 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, December 22, 2012

1986 Topps Tiffany #703 N.L. All-Star




















Card Review: 9.1  I love the base card version of this.  For the most part, when I look at these Tiffany cards, I can't help but think how much better today's cards would look on traditional card stock.  This is a nice card, but the gloss adds nothing.

At the time of writing this, this is my only one of this card, and something took a small bite out of the lower left corner.

Number of this card in my collection: 1
2013 update: 3

Thursday, October 18, 2012

1991 BB Card Price Guide Monthly #36















Card Review: 8.4  Up until about a minute ago I had always assumed this card was put out by the same magazine that did this 1966 version.  But the copyright information is completely different.  Guess there were multiple off-brand price guides putting out knock-off thin stock cards back in 1991.  Can't say I'm surprised.  This card is also a useful tool, as for quick reference people could note that their '88 Score Wallach was worth 5 cents.

Number of this card in my collection: 1
2015 update: 2
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: n/a
2019 update: 3
2020 update: n/a
2021 update: n/a
2022 update: n/a
2023 update: n/a
2024 update: n/a
2025 update: n/a
2026 update: 4


Monday, August 22, 2011

1986 Topps Tiffany #685















Card Review: 9.1  I think the Topps Tiffany sets from the 1980's really show how ridiculous their current sets have become.  The Tiffany cards were basically what has become the base card today.  Yet every year Topps trots out another predominately white backed, and white bordered card.  There's no reason they can't do a modern card in a traditional design.

(2015 Topps is a step in the right direction)

Number of this card in my collection: 2
2013 update: 4
2014 update: n/a
2015 update: n/a
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: 5

 

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

1986 Topps #685
















Card Review: 9.3  As a whole I like the '86 Topps design.  It features a nice assortment of photography (somehow making pre-game catch look intersting), and has a simple clean design that's both new and full of past Topps elements.  The Pete Rose subset to start the set was also my first exposure to many of the 1970's Topps designs.  I particularly like the cards with the team names in red lettering at the top.  However the blue "Expos" lettering with the contrasting blue uniforms just doesn't work for me.  The Expos cards with players in the home white uniforms look much better.

 In addition to my complaints about the colors, I've just never been wild about the way this photo was cropped.  Wallach just looks too small on the card.  My final complaint, is that the photo is too similar to the photo's used on the 1984 and '85 Topps Wallach cards.  That said, despite all these complaints, this is still what I consider to be a classic Wallach card.

Number of this card in my collection: 44
2012 update: 83
2013 update: 139
2014 update: 164
2015 update: 238 
2016 update: 285
2017 update: 295
2018 update: 312
2019 update: 422
2020 update: 440
2021 update: 468
2022 update: 536
2023 update: 574
2024 update: 590
2025 update: 594
2026 update: 597