My Expo Pickups... scan heavy!!!

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Hey folks,

Well, it was a very eventful weekend at the Expo, and I'll be adding the "View from the Hobby Insider Booth" thread in the Hobby Talk section shortly. As my pickups (box breaks) were rather large, I figured I'd do up a show & tell first. So without further adieu!


The first three photos were from an eBay seller I've bought a bunch of pics from, who happened to be set up at Expo. Super guy! Great deal too. Loving the old Brodeur pics! First is him VERY young with the Nords, likely around '72. Second is him saving a shot from Jets sniper, Ulf Nilsson. Third is Brodeur defending against Mark Pavelich, with Harold Snepsts skating around the net!
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A card from eBay seller, Memories on Ice, made possible by Jack (horton16). Thanks guys!
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This card was a pull by our own Dan (danvincent78), who showed it to me immediately. After talking about it for a day or so, we decided to make a trade - Dan got one of my Superlative redemptions (with Orr & Gretzky), and I got this AWESOME Lord Stanley 1/1 Onyx and a few shekels! This will look AMAZING framed with my original Lord Stanley letter and envelope!! Thanks Dan... you're a credit to this hobby and a very well respected member of HI!
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Well, thanks to certain HI members such as Steve (quincy) and Winston (winniescards), as well as Chris (DogfoodSoup), Norm (trekrun), Curt (GabbyGuy), Matt (chadsexington) and Daniel from The Hockey Connection, I was able to knock off a BUNCH of Vachon cards off my want list! A couple came from eBay as well, mixed in. Thanks guys!!
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A couple more King Richard cards for my PC! Thanks to Chris (carmichaelpt) for one of the Gold triples as well as Anand (docrinki) for the Gold Brodeur Number 1/1!! I'm in debt (literally) to Anand now, as this card was a HUGE piece of my collection. Thanks guys!! The other cards were eBay wins.
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Back at the Fall Expo, I made a deal with Mark (hutch1118) for a Tony Esposito card (I think?) and we hadn't finished the deal. Thanks to Mark for the Fuhr and Mikita/Savard cards! I'm also pretty sure the Raymond auto came from Norm (trekrun), but I could be mistaken?!?
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With the new Superlative Franchise set out, the Henderson cards were flying around the room (although I'm still missing a few!). Three of these were from Steve (quincy) and one I cracked from my own book (the gold triple auto!). And yes... by the end of Expo, I pretty much owed Steve my soul...
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The next batch of cards were my breaks from Superlative Franchise and Bleu Blanc et Rouge! Most of the Leafs cards were dealt either to Dan (tmlfan67), who was a BLAST to negotiate with, Hans (Gamebreakers) or Daniel from The Hockey Connection. Thanks to ALL for the deals, and Dan... "walk away" my friend ;)
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And some of my Team Superlative redemptions! Amazing cards and was able to trade & sell some cards to help pay for some of these cards... fantastic redemptions and kudos to the whole ITG team and Dr. Price!
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The next group of cards were from my crazy BTP breaks, all done at the ITG booth for the redemption cards! Thanks to a group of HI members who helped crack the boxes for me! The Rogie auto is from Chris (DogfoodSoup) - thanks dude!! Also note a bunch of 1/1 cards, including the Hasek Auto/Jersey & the Budaj Auto/Jersey, as well as all the redemptions! Since the boxes were cracked on Sunday, ITG ran out of BTP redemptions so we got H&P redemptions in their place... and I'm totally not complaining! 1/1 Selanne & 1/1 Ovechkin?!?!!? SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!
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And to add some more to this thread (since there's only 36 photos), here is a bunch of mail from the past week or two! These are my "Mail Day" posts, and most are not available.
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Picked this sexy beast off of eBay for a nice price... notice the amazing patches! And it's numbered 1/5!!!
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It goes VERY nicely with his two brothers... 3/5 & 5/5!!!! (Sorry Jeff... they're staying in the PC now :D)
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A bunch more Rogies for the PC, including a very easy deal with our own Roger (Sidy) for the 1/1 Cup Patch!
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The Forsberg comes from an eBay deal with Arthur (Sendit17), the Satan from Ilhan (sabres11) and the Larry Kwong card was a gift from my good bud, Chad (choppinbroccoli), who I'm sure will advise everyone about this card in the very near future (likely a future Insider's Edge magazine!!). Thanks guys!!!
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ALSO! Look for my Non-Sports post in the Non-Sports section!


Thanks for the look! Most of the cards above are available, other than the obvious Mail Day, King Richard, Paul Henderson & Rogie Vachon cards!!
 
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This might be the beer talking but holy fudge that's a crazy mail post :eek:. Loving all the purple and yellow :beer:
 
Great looking cards B as always but the real beautys are those 1st Pictures of Brodeurs. My buddy spent a fortune with this guy saying it was his steal of the show.

Awesome stuff and great seeing you again

Dean
 
Wow Bruce, awesome finds and absolutely amazing ITG BTP breaks. Those redemptons for Ultimate and BTP are crazy, really wish I would have been there if not to see the carnage of the wax rippage. As long as I know the Naslund is staying in a PC I'm good. One day you'll come crawling back to me, begging for me to take it off your hands:p Good luck tracking down the final 2! Looking forward to seeing the pics from the HI booth. I'll be there in November!
 
Amazing Bruce... Congrats.. That is a lot of ink you have there.... Those vintage photo's are awesome as well as the Lord Stanley 1/1 you will have to show off the whole display when you have it all done with the letter and envelope..
Bill
 
'Twas a blast to hang witcha as always Bruce.

And I gotta say...it was kinda fun to watch you flinch a little every time I reached into my shirt pocket. ;)
 
Outstanding show and tell but I really like the old Brodeur pics. My fave is the "In Action" shot with description against Nillson... It doesn't even look like he's wearing any equipment uder that SICKKKK Nords jersey!!

Pete
 
Now that is a post! Awesome stuff, particularly the 2 Team Superlative Broad Street Bullies "6" cards - the 3 Nazzy cards x/5 are amazing, beautiful stuff.

Thanks for the show!
 
loving the show bruce. got to ask, is that gilbert dionne stick available? i have a couple already, and would love to go OCD on them if possible.


thanks for the hospitality at the booth as always.
 
Thanx for the pics Bruce. Nice to see you nailed down so many Vachon's for the pc. I'm really digging the 3 quad Naslund auto patches from The Cup. I think those were the best patches that came out of the set all year. It's be nice to land all 5 now....I'll keep my eyes open for you!!!
 
Thanks for the show, Bruce..........those cards are :whatthehell:

Congrats!!! :beer: :beer:

And thanks for having the HI booth for all of us to meet and hang out. Awesome community of people! :D


Until next time..... :beer:


--Curt
 
loving the show bruce. got to ask, is that gilbert dionne stick available? i have a couple already, and would love to go OCD on them if possible.


thanks for the hospitality at the booth as always.

Meeting Emerson & Sydnee was a highlight for me, Chris, especially when Emerson put out her hand to shake mine... :D

Yep, the Dionne's available. LMK what you wanna do.
 

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