Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Flea Market Round Up Pt. 3

As is every Saturday I woke up and asked my brain what it wanted to do. Well my brain is rather predictable and I ended up at the flea market as per usual and found myself on the garage sale aisle.


Where I saw this '61 Spahn staring at me from its glass case prison amongst Penthouse magazines, cigar boxes and old zippo lighters. I asked the gentleman how much and got nervous when he reached for his dusty Beckett behind him...


I acted quickly and picked up this well loved '53 Mathews and he put the book down and started to tell me stories about Eddie. We talked for a while about the Braves and other baseball legends and eventually he told me I could have both for $8. Which for me was plenty fair for my first vintage Spahn and this fine piece of art 


Moving further down the garage sale aisle,  which I don't usually go down, I found a large box marked 5/$1 which I began to pick thru and plucked this trio of O-Pee-Chees.


Also grabbed the Braves big three but in the wrong uniforms out of those same boxes. The Glavine is a refractor and the Smoltz just looks wrong to me. 


Also snagged these 3, the Konerko is up for grabs if anyone wants it. I always thought he was a White Sock for life. The Kevin Brown cards were just too goofy to leave behind. 


What's the point of a Flea market if you don't pick up a couple of oddballs. These 2 are up for trade as well.


Ooooh shiny, that Neagle is blinding.


Keeping this one short like my trip to the flea market this week, I'll close it out with a couple die cut Chippers I picked up from those same five for one boxes. 


RIP Monte, pulled this from a pack back in July. 

8 comments:

  1. I've had the itch to go to a flea market for a while now; unfortunately, being a Chicagoan in January without any such places located indoors makes that rather difficult. Nice finds - especially the Metal Universes. So much 90's on one cardboard rectangle.

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    1. I'm blessed to have 3 big ones with cards within an hour of the house.

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  2. '61 Spahn and '53 Mathews...for $8?! Seriously?!?!?!?!?

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    1. Yeah I was definitely glad he put that Beckett down.

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  3. I'm with Nick -- that's a great price for those two cards. Great pickups!

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  4. That is a good bargain. It pays to be friendly!

    I'm a huge fan of the shiny Showcase cards like the Neagle.

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    1. I had never seen one before this, is it a parallel? Either way I'm a fan

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  5. Hmmm... the distraction technique. I like it. Those two vintage cards are amazing.

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