White Whale Landed: All the way from Germany?

[MaskPatch]

Hi, as you may know I am working on the 2002-03 Mask Collection Patch set. I needed only 4 cards to complete the 42-card set. I have had serious trouble locating the last 4 cards so I decided to join a few European hobby boards. After a few weeks of being a member on dascardboard.eu (a German hobby forum), I received a message from a member who had one of the cards I needed. He sent me a scan of the card and to my amazement it was the rarest card in the set, the Dan Blackburn /12. After overcoming the language barrier, I have been able to add this card to my set:

I now only need 3 cards to complete this set, the Turek, Sakic, and Thibault.

Here are the 39 cards that I have:

Thanks for taking a look.

Comments always appreciated.

 

[lansdowneflyer]

Amazing! Congrats on getting that Blackburn. I know you've been looking for it for a really long time. Good luck on the rest!

 

[troyjk]

good job! Keep up the great work. Hopefully you find those last three. What do you plan to do with the set once completed? Frame it and display it?

 

[lucscaps]

that's a really cool story, goes to show what's really out there.

 

[BillInDallas]

Great find!

dascardboard sounds like something out of an SNL skit. Is everything conducted in German or English? Might be worth checking out...

 

[gspell]

Great looking set! Glad to hear you're hanging in there!
Picking up that Blackburn certainly helps keeps the fire burning!
Keep up the good work!
Greg

 

[incetardis]

pretty cool!

 

[MaskPatch]

good job! Keep up the great work. Hopefully you find those last three. What do you plan to do with the set once completed? Frame it and display it?

I actually already purchased a custom case for the set.
Here is a picture of it, sorry for the bad quality I took it quickly with my phone:

 

[MaskPatch]

Great find!

dascardboard sounds like something out of an SNL skit. Is everything conducted in German or English? Might be worth checking out...

From what I have seen the majority of the members are German and most of the posts are written in German. I have seen a few in English though. Luckily the guy I dealt with spoke some English so it wasn't too bad.

 

[canucksfreak19]

Congrats! That is a fantastic looking card. Good luck tracking down those final three. The patches that you have accumulated to this point are stunning.

 

[Frendo]

Stunning cards!
Still need one of these to my PC but impossible to find, I wonder why hehe...

Anyways among the nicest card design I ever seen!

 

[lukko]

Congratulations on obtaining the rarest of the set!!:dance:

The odds of getting the remaining 3 cards are mathematically better ; hopefully it is just a matter of time!

Regards, Patrick

 

[coryl]

Please pm me the other sites, as I have been looking for 5 cards for the last 11 years and no luck.

Thnx
Cory

 

[Icetigersnet]

From what I have seen the majority of the members are German and most of the posts are written in German. I have seen a few in English though. Luckily the guy I dealt with spoke some English so it wasn't too bad.

thecardboard is a german based forum, that´s why german is the main language.
but nearly everyone there is able do read and write english.....

 

[MaskPatch]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. If anybody has any info on where the Sakic, Turek, or Thibault patches may be, please let me know.

 

[bonnev659]

congrats only 3 more to go!!! good luck on those

and that frame looks very nice for that set

 

[cathaytrader]

Congrats on landing the Blackburn. It's a sweet looking card.