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quincy
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It's been two years since I went to Expo. Fall 2013 was the last one. So to say that I was eagerly awaiting Fall Expo 2015 is something of an understatement. I truly missed hanging out with the Expo crowd. From the Thursday dinner through the familiar grind of opening Friday, the steady mill of Saturday and "dammit I need to get the hell out of here" by midday Sunday...
It was welcome and familiar, good and bad. Like a well worn old jacket, finding all the grooves and folds you remember, that hole in the pocket you forgot about, the still-fermenting beer stain on the lapel...
I needed this. In the worst way. I went to be sociable, believe it or not. And I was glad I did.
Still, you're not here to listen to me blither on about touchy feely horseflop. You wanna see some cards. (N.B. All pix below are clickable thumbnails)
Let's start with a long overdue mail call. I DON'T do Dual Tough Patches as a rule, but I made an exception here. I had purchased the single Ray as part of a lot, and it ended up vanishing off the face of the earth. Longish story. I bought this one so that I'd have a Rob Ray:
More recently, won this nice card on The 'Bay and picked up at Expo:
That concludes the mail portion.
I bought a total of TEN cards at Expo. Here they are in some order:
From Darren/MajorGrief Sports:
Love those Z-teams.
An' a Select Gold
For my minor Wickenheiser collection, from my good friend Mr. Singer:
I happened to be walking past a showcase containing this gem. Had to have it.
Daniel at The Hockey Connection had three Millennium Pieces...and as I'm continuing to hoard those...yeah.
He also had this beaut:
Gomaz had this marvel lounging in his front showcase:
Appreciate the deal, bossman. Nothin' but love.
If you're counting along at home, that's nine. I decided I needed to make it ten even. So I broke one of my collection rules to bring this bad boy home:
Them's the goods. Comments welcome.
It was welcome and familiar, good and bad. Like a well worn old jacket, finding all the grooves and folds you remember, that hole in the pocket you forgot about, the still-fermenting beer stain on the lapel...
I needed this. In the worst way. I went to be sociable, believe it or not. And I was glad I did.
Still, you're not here to listen to me blither on about touchy feely horseflop. You wanna see some cards. (N.B. All pix below are clickable thumbnails)
Let's start with a long overdue mail call. I DON'T do Dual Tough Patches as a rule, but I made an exception here. I had purchased the single Ray as part of a lot, and it ended up vanishing off the face of the earth. Longish story. I bought this one so that I'd have a Rob Ray:
More recently, won this nice card on The 'Bay and picked up at Expo:
That concludes the mail portion.
I bought a total of TEN cards at Expo. Here they are in some order:
From Darren/MajorGrief Sports:
Love those Z-teams.
An' a Select Gold
For my minor Wickenheiser collection, from my good friend Mr. Singer:
I happened to be walking past a showcase containing this gem. Had to have it.
Daniel at The Hockey Connection had three Millennium Pieces...and as I'm continuing to hoard those...yeah.
He also had this beaut:
Gomaz had this marvel lounging in his front showcase:
Appreciate the deal, bossman. Nothin' but love.
If you're counting along at home, that's nine. I decided I needed to make it ten even. So I broke one of my collection rules to bring this bad boy home:
Them's the goods. Comments welcome.
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take care 
