Sunday, November 10, 2024

Free for the taking: well-loved vintage!

I'll be back soonish with more trade posts, but for now I'm in a fall cleaning mode getting ready to dump a lot of unwanted stuff on Facebook Marketplace (while also listing a ton of stuff for trade on TCDb). While I was going through everything I decided to do something fun with some cards I bet a lot of you will enjoy.

Some of you may remember that when I covered my super fun June garage sale purchase about a month ago, one of the items was a box of very well-loved and highly incomplete vintage cards

Well I've kept the few I wanted and thrown a few into trade piles (some sent out already), plus set aside some for Bo. What should I do with the rest? Why not give them away? That includes everything left from that box plus some '75 Topps Minis that are in better shape.

The cards in the following nine scans are available 100% free to anyone who follows my completely reasonable instructions and claims them below.

Rules:

1. Please feel free to claim multiple cards but don't get greedy and ask for half of them, at least not until plenty of people have had a chance to request what they want
2. If multiple people claim a single card I reserve the right to award it to the person I choose in an effort to balance things out
3. Please leave a comment below listing the cards you want as described below. If you comment anonymously, plus leave your name and email address so I can contact you for your address if I need it (please also feel free to drop your blog name and/or Twitter name if you'd like, but that's optional)
4. For the first eight scans, please claim the cards in the form of [scan #]-[card letter] with the card letter going A through I, top to bottom, left to right. e.g. the Jim Fregosi card in the first scan would be "1-E." That'll make it easier for me to find the cards you choose
5. For the last scan, the cards down the first column are A-D, the next four are E & F, G & H, and the last card is I. I'll note that below the scan as well
6. Once I've determined who gets what, cards will be PWEd out, either soon after I determine time's up, or with Christmas cards, or whenever I want
7. With the exception of my most common Canadian trade partner, I'm limiting this to US addresses only
8. I won't chase after anyone who doesn't follow the rules above so for example if you claim cards as an anonymous account and don't leave your email, I'm not coming after you to send it to me--it's on you to make sure to do that. Same thing goes for when I reach out for addresses I don't have--if you don't respond in a reasonable amount of time you get nothing!

Other than that, I think it should be pretty straightforward. Please keep in mind that besides having been cut or torn up as seen in the scans, they may have other defects on them such as pen or pencil and torn backs. I doubt that'll matter to anyone that would claim cards in this state, but I at least wanted to point that out.

With all that in mind, please get to claiming!

Scan 1:

Scan 2:
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Scan 5:
Scan 6:
Scan 7:
Scan 8:
Scan 9:

A  E  F
B  
C G  H
D   I

18 comments:

  1. Thank you for doing this. If available, I would like 1G, 3I, 5B, 5C, 8H, 8I, 9A.

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    1. All yours, Jeremy. I'll get those out to you in the next package I send you!

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    2. Thanks! I’ll have some stuff coming your way soon.

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  2. I collect Senator cards if you have any to spare. Thanks

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    1. Please feel free to claim any you'd like (it looks like there's around 6 available at the moment).

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  3. Those are all fantastic! I would like 1E and 7G please. Thank you.

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  4. If someone else wants them, they can have them, but I'll give any leftover Red Sox cards a good home.

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    1. You're welcome to claim whichever you'd like, Matt--please feel free

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    2. OK then, since it's been a few day since you posted: I'll claim 2-G, 3-G, 4-B, and 4-C please. Thank you!

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  5. Lol. Love these. Glad you're finding new homes for some of these well-loved cards.

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    1. Thanks, Fuji! I'm not surprised that someone like you who appreciates damaged cards is getting a kick out of this

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  6. It took me way too long to realize the black "X" across some of the cards wasn't the work of a kid with a marker 50 years ago. Thanks for posting these, that box must have been a blast to go through.

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    1. Nope, just the work of a 40+ year-old artistically challenged kid using MSPaint! Thanks for checking these out. It was fun for me getting some big stars like Clemente and Koufax even though like 20-30% of each card is missing. Vintage cards are special, though, and you can tell by the way folks jump at them even in poor condition--and sometimes especially in poor condition!

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  7. Somebody really didn't like white borders way back when. These are a bit too rough for me, but hopefully you'll be able to find new homes for all of them.

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