Maple Leafs Printing Plate Contest Winner Announced

Congrats to Ron on being the lucky winner of the 2016 Leaf Lumber Kings Hockey 50 Goal Club – Rick Vaive – Magenta Plate #’ed 1/1.  Once Ron sends me his mailing address, I will ship this card ASAP.  Thanks!

Cardinals ’15 Topps Mini Chrome Printing Plate Contest Winner Announced

Congrats to Matt G on being the lucky winner of the Patrick Peterson 2015 Topps Mini Chrome Yellow Printing Plate #’ed 1/1.  Once Matt G sends me their mailing address, I will ship this card ASAP.  Thanks!

Cardinals ’15 Topps Mini Chrome Printing Plate Contest! – NOW CLOSED

This contest is for a Patrick Peterson 2015 Topps Mini Chrome Yellow Printing Plate #’ed 1/1.  Good luck!!!

Contest Details:

• This contest will end Friday, January 15, 2016 @ 8:00 p.m. EST.
• To enter, please leave a comment in this post.
• You can enter once per day.
• The winner will be selected at random.
• Please provide a valid e-mail address when entering.
• The winner will receive an e-mail when the contest is over.
• The winner has one week to send me their contact information or the contest will be held again.
• Once the contest is over, I will need the winner’s mailing address so I can ship them this card for FREE!!!

’62 Topps Printing Plate Scam

I Am Joe Collector spotted a great scam taking place on eBay yesterday and I thought I’d dig a little deeper on the subject.  He found someone claiming they owned the actual printing plates from 1962 Topps Baseball and Football.  This person is attempting to sell each individual plate for $60.00 to $80.00.  If those were real plates and/or proofs, they’d be selling for a lot more money than that.  So far it looks as if only one person fell for their little scam.  I e-mailed the seller and asked where they obtained these items, and they claim to have purchased them at the Topps sale of 1989.  Topps did sell a lot of items from their “Vault” back in ’89, but these were not on the list.  In addition to that, these plates/proofs don’t even come with a COA from The Topps Company.

This is suppose to be a plate of Mike Mercer from ’62 Topps Football.  Don’t you love the authentic label they slapped on there?  Any idiot with a label maker could do this.

This is a nice PSA look alike grading holder.  If its too good to be true, it probably is.

Pulls/Promos/Pickups at the ’09 National

One of my favorite things about the National are the promos provided by many of the manufacturers and various other dealers.  I obtained most of my promos from Press Pass and Panini, but did pick up a few from Razor and Dave & Adams.  In addition to the promos below, I also received everything that was stated to be in the VIP package.  Click on each photo for a closer look.

Razor Promo Set – Rich Franklin, The Kardashian Sisters, Donovan Tate, Johnny Chan, and an ’08 Razor Metal Michel Inoa.

These are all promos from D & A, Press Pass, and Razor – Aaron Hicks ’08 Metal Plate, Brett Wallace Freedom Cardboard, Tim Beckham Freedom Cardboard, David Cooper Freedom Cardboard, LeSean McCoy ’09 Press Pass Legends #’ed/5, and I pulled a Red Ink auto of Ozzie Newsome as a promo from Press Pass

More promos from Press Pass & Panini – Matthew Stafford ’09 Score Atomic #’ed/50, Matthew Stafford ’09 Elite #’ed/499, Jeremy Maclin ’09 Elite #’ed/499, Michael Crabtree ’09 Elite #’ed/499 and a Tom Jackson Press Pass Legends #’ed/5

I pulled some really nice low-numbered cards at the National while obtaining some of the promos.  Everyone got excited at the Press Pass booth when I pulled this Mike Alstott signed printing plate #’ed 1/1.  This is the second 1/1 I’ve pulled during a National.  I also picked up an Elston Howard 2000 UD Yankees Legends jersey and a Lou Gehrig ’07 UD SP Legendary Cuts 1 of 1 filmstrip piece.

2008 Donruss Black Box Football Break

Awesome looking box and cool printing plates.

Braylon Edwards 1/1 07 Leaf Certified Materials Black Plate

DeShawn Wynn 07 Leaf Limited Magenta Plate 1/1

Joe Horn 07 Donruss Threads 1/1 Yellow Plate

Jared Zabransky 07 Leaf Rookies & Stars Magenta Plate 1/1

Legedu Naanee 07 Leaf Limited 1/1 Black Plate

Brandon Jacobs 07 Leaf Certified Materials 1/1 Autographed Yellow Plate

Jerricho Cotchery 07 Leaf Certified Materials 1/1 Autographed Yellow Plate