Flea Market Round Up VII

Here's the rest of the cards from last weekends trip to Oldsmar Flea Market. I strolled upon a table full of Phillies stuff and signed 8x10s (the top one was Maddux as a Cub) when all of a sudden something caught my eye. 

Spahn!

Mathews!

Both were encased in this display case with a $20 price tag. I recognized Mathews auto right away and the man said he had gotten it TTM from Eddie himself when he was still alive. The Spahn I was less certain about but it seemed legit enough for me to plunk down 20 bucks for 2 deceased Braves Hall of Famers. They're still in that crummy case and I'm 

Remember the greatest dime box ever from last weekend, well that same guy had another pretty decent dime box...

Guyyyyyy

Found these odd shaped hockey cards in there as well, about the size of a business card.

Here's the back. 

O-Pee-Chee Potvin.

Couldn't leave these Obaks behind for a dime a piece. Let me know if you need that Stanton Gavin.

Venditte coming at you from both sides. 

Finally here's a couple of cool reprints I nabbed. As always thanks for reading. 

Turner Wroster Jenga PWE - A Trade Post

New trade partner!  I sent Tony Burbs from Wrigley Roster Jenga some extra J-Hey cards to congratulate him on his Cubs winning the Jason Heyward sweepstakes. I got his return package last Friday...

There were a bunch of cool cards in the PWE, how can you go wrong with a black and white photo of the late great Eddie Mathews. 

This Spahn '51 rehash makes me realize I need to put the original on my cardboard bucket list. One day Spahny, one day. 

I've passed a few of these Power Players cards onto other bloggers but this is the first Bravo I've come across, even if he is a much richer man 2 teams removed in Detroit now. Enjoy the hot streaks Julie (prepare for equally maddening cold streaks)

One of my favorite parts of Tony's blog is the mass amount of minor league issues he's constantly showing off as part of his ATCR project. He shared the love with these 3 and they were all new to me!

Tony must read my blog, he knows a good base for a trade package is by keeping up with the Joneses'. Both new additions to the PCs.

Oddballs are another frequent subject over at WRJ and these 2 are pretty cool. I have too many of those Showdown cards but this one was a newbie.

Closing it out with a base card? Well yeah it was the only one in the package but it was off my want list!  Thanks for checking that Tony and thanks for all the other great cards, this was our first trade but I'm sure it won't be our last. 

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. 

Vintage Haul from the Flea Market

Went to my local flea market yesterday and found a new vendor with loads of awesome vintage. Didn't have much cash in my wallet but I feel I made the most of it.  Let's see what I got. 

Picked up this '60 Mathews for cheap,  this is a card I never thought I would have and am very happy I found it. It's in pretty good shape, Beckett grading is coming to the card show next weekend and I may submit this one. 

I grabbed a bunch of '73 Braves for my team set and asked the guy if he had this card in his non common boxes. He pulled it out and when I asked him how much he said "you can have it". It does have a crease running down the middle but again this was a huge addition to my collection and will go in the binders with my close to completed '73 team set.

Along with this fella which ran me a whole $1.25. If you need commons for your team sets from these years let me know as I'll definitely be going back to my new favorite vendor. 

Everybody on the cardsphere has been posting vintage Bowman so I finally braved the boxes and pulled this beauty out for a couple bucks. 

The back has a small stain but that's ok with me,  I now have a '52 Bowman! Take that 2015 Bowman Draft!

Continuing with new items to my collection. I had no '65 Braves before today but at 75 cents a common I asdsd added these 4 to start off the team set.

Grabbed a box full of Commons for 10 cents a piece. Mostly Braves team set needs but grabbed a few stars out of the binders including this Dock, Vida Blue, my first Bill "Spaceman" Lee card and others from '73, '75 and '76 Topps. I got all of the above cards except the Mathews for 10 bucks. I could've stopped there but I'm glad I didn't as the other card vendor there had that Mathews along with these..

'64 Mathews

'69 Niekro

'70 Niekro

'58 Bob Hazle

'53 Eba St. Claire, my first of this set. 

'52 Vern Bickford my first '52 Topps of anybody. It felt good to knock some of the huge names off my team set lists for my Braves Topps Team set project. All told it was a good day at the flea market. Thanks for reading.