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Tooth Fairy showed up today!
Canes8387899101
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Bought a couple blasters of Allen & Ginter at Walmart today, and "pulled" this. This has to be the most interesting relic card I own. 
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i have an unhealthy fascination with sharks, so if you're open to moving this card i'm your huckleberry
@galaxy27
My 4 year old daughter also is fascinated with sharks, and doesn't really care for cards otherwise Must be that baby shark thing! I might hold it, because maybe this will get her into cards with dad. However, she also has the attention span of a mosquito on Red Bull, so if she doesn't show anymore interest in my cards I would sell.
Thanks
Joe
“were gonna need a bigger holder”
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@blurryface
check this out
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184993647942?hash=item2b127b0d46:g:cdIAAOSwHCdhFBQU
pricing aside, thats a pretty cool card!
That is an awesome card, but it is going to take a very wealthy archeologist to bid 10 G on it!
Did it come from this tooth fairy?
Or this guy? Captain Floss sounds like one of those DuMont network shows...
And I thought the presiding officer (Mother Nature) doesn't get a vote except to break a tie?
Dimes: 54S, 53P, 50P, 49S, 45D+S, 44S, 43D, 41S, 40D+S, 39D+S, 38D+S, 37D+S, 36S, 35D+S, all 16-34's
Quarters: 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
74 Topps: 37,38,46,47,48,138,151,193,210,214,223,241,256,264,268,277,289,316,435,552,570,577,592,602,610,654,655
1997 Finest silver: 115, 135, 139, 145, 310
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I live on the Eastern coast. As a child in the 70s , I was such a wonderful swimmer. Always in the water! It never bothered me while swimming and seeing sharks. One day on the sunny beach I decided to swim to the shrimp boats , as they'd throw fish and other things off the boat. Till this day, I can't imagine doing that! 😆 Sharks were all around me eating the dead fish, even running into me lol. And I mean big fins! I wouldn't do that now to save my life! I look back and say I was lucky.
One of the biggest Tiger shark 🦈 ever was caught here in south Carolina. It was almost 2 tons. I love watching sharks! That's an awesome card you have!!! 👍 Seriously like that! I like blue crab decor also!
i guarantee you if i chased a shark tooth and busted some A&G blasters, this is the kind of relic i'd pull
https://www.ebay.com/itm/224568439306?hash=item344952720a:g:-BYAAOSwTb1hFAYD
Does this count as a duel relic card now?
very perplexing. like if i sent that card in to be graded i wouldn't know whether to put decathlon shorts or victoria's secret panties
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@blurryface
canes this will be of interest to you brother. now i'm glad we didn't consummate a deal, cuz i would have unintentionally lowballed the snot out of you.
a bull tooth is at two fiddy five!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/393524355790
wow! never woulda thought that. ive visited many of florida i95 gas stations/gift shops. could buy the whole dusty shark tooth section for that. they are cool cards though!
@galaxy27
Thank you for the information! I knew it was a 1/10 or less from looking it up, but wow! Nicer hit then I thought! I figured it might be a $100 card, and $150 at the most. It's a cool card, but I have a couple other projects/sets I'm working on, so maybe I will sell to fund other purchases.
Way cool card! Is there a Great White version? I love sharks for some reason but they admittedly scare the pop tarts out of me!
Yes they are a 1/10 for a Great White, Bull, Tiger, and Mako Shark.
@galaxy27
@blurryface
Holy Chocolate Pop Tarts with Sprinkles! That was a crazy auction for the Bull Shark tooth card! Almost 6 Hundo!
wow! normally id call bullshark, but seeing as its /10 and the amount of folks that dig sharks, i could see a couple guys duking it out. per your card, in my vast but still limited knowledge of shark hierarchy, id put the tiger ahead of the bull. bull can swim up rivers though, but tigers are beasts and’ll eat anything.
I go White, Tiger, Bull...well, Orca but that's not a shark just a shark eater!
Great Hammerheads are in the mix for 3rd for me. Those things get huge. I read where the width of the head of a really big one can be 5 feet. Yikes.
i was pretty close on the fmv of a card like that.................only about 500 bucks off
don't sleep on makos.........they can blaze. like cheetahs in water.
look at this bad boy tracking this boat down like it's nothing
ill be honest. i woulda enjoyed the rip & pulling it. but woulda been one of those cards i lay out and admire for a while before ultimately getting boxed up w similar cards/extras/commons i love but deem “no significant value” when i do my quarterly desk clean up. of course this is probably exactly where a few of my “whales” are sitting that i scour ebay daily for…. sitting right there in other collectors monthly clean up box. so yes, i woulda tremendously miscalculated its true worth too.
and for a proper visual:
I lived in Hilton Head many years ago and did the same thing. I remember getting scared to death by a porpoise flying by me right behind a shrimp boat! Good times. I saw an 11 foot hammerhead on the dock there and that thing looked COLOSSAL. I can not imagine my horror if I ever physically witnessed the sheer size of a 20' Great White.
speaking of hammerheads, theres a great vid out there of “the shark” greg norman landing a huge hammerhead. mighta been close to a record. think its was 2-3 years ago maybe.
Couple of questions, since the board has a vast wealth of knowledge.
1. If I decide to sell this card, how would you holder this card, and protect it. Blurry said we're going to need a bigger holder, but for real how are all of you who sell dealing with the thickness of cards like this?
2. Probably will put it on here first, but if no one wants it here on ebay it will go. I haven't sold on ebay for a while, but from what I remember ebay sends a 1099 after $600 of sales now? So a BIN of $599, and free shipping avoids a 1099?
pretty sure number 2 starts next year. dont quote me. verbiage is kinda vague.
as you can see the best format is .99 auction. a lot of folks will pass by w a high buy it now. chum the waters w a 99 cent auction, draw more bidders/watchers in and then let the biggest shark win it. i would say now is the perfect time rolling off that one.
Thanks Blurry for the help! Anyone got advice what to use as a holder for this card? I've never sold and mailed a card that is this thick. I know how to safely pack normal cards, but this is not close to a normal size card.
How thick is it?
1/4-3/8 inch thick. It was the only card in the pack I pulled it in.
Will a really thick toploader work? I own them up to 180 Pt and I think they make 240 pt too.
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Thank you DBesse! I will have to check into the 240 pt toploader. No idea if those are thick enough, but there is a card show in my area soon, so I'll check if any dealers have some.
I'm quite confused since I know absolutely nothing about ultra modern baseball card issues. Why in the heck would a baseball card company think it's a good idea to include shark card inserts in a baseball issue? I can certainly understand a card company producing an animal issue, but I'm getting the sense that baseball card companies have definitely "jumped the shark" if they're resorting to this kind of gimmickry! Anyone with me on this?
Allen and Ginter has been doing this for 15 years now.
I think those would go fine in a CS4. Ship well padded in a Priority Flat Rate envelope?
Dan, serious question, is there some kind of conversion chart for the "pt" system?
Maybe everyone but me has a basic working knowledge of the pt system already, but many times I see people type something like you did and it doesn't clear anything up for me. How many pt is a normal toploader for a vintage Topps card? How any pt is a heritage clubhouse collection card? Does pt thickness go up in increments of 10? 20? 40? etc...
Sincerely, pt challenged in N.Y.
I have never collected anything newer than 1982. For baseball, I always understood the modern era to be post-1980 when Topps' long run as the lone U.S. manufacturer ended but I may be mistaken. When did the ultra modern era begin and what distinguishing factor(s) set it apart from the modern era?
One point is just 1/1000 inch.