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Nathaniel1960
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Anyone going to the Chantilly VA show tomorrow?
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Thought you might like to see this. This check was written from the Crickets account and signed by their manager, Norman Petty. Buddy endorsed the check on the back.
But, baby, I ain't got no money, Honey.
<< <i>Anyone going to the Chantilly VA show tomorrow? >>
I'll be going down this morning.
<< <i>Hi Vlad,
Thought you might like to see this. This check was written from the Crickets account and signed by their manager, Norman Petty. Buddy endorsed the check on the back.
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Holy crap, PM sent, do you own that?
I picked up about 30-35 NM-MT 75 mini's for my set. I'm sending the low POP's under the October special. If I get around to it, I'll post the highlights on the raw card Saturday thread after the kids go to bed.
For those in the NoVa area, it's a great show to attend, and you still have tomorrow to go if you haven't been there already.
Lots of blow out cards, just got too tired to stand there and sort. A couple of dealers with nice boxes of $1 commons and semi stars from about 58 to 69 Topps.
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I wonder if attendance is lower because of the economy, the National was nearby on the East Coast a few months ago, or some other reason.
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Sold a bunch of vintage graded to Andy's Sportscards when I walked in. Picked up a Huggins & Scott auction lot I won and gave them something to sell for me. Stopped at Charles Town on the way back to win some gas money.
707 was set up at the show (minus the big sign).
<< <i>Anyone going to the Chantilly VA show tomorrow? >>
I might go Saturday. Will be too nice out Friday to stay inside.
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Rodney
- Peyton Manning is bigger than I imagined
- Not much vintage card action, about 50% autos and auto items
- Lots of bargain 80's. 50 ct Glavine and Smoltz RC's all brands for $5 each. Was a little shocked by that.
- Junk wax at all time lows IMO. 1990 Upper Deck Hi Series Hockey Sets for $1 each.
- 1977 SCDs for $1 each. Picked up a few.
- Pick up of the day, Martin Brodeur Score RC in .10 cent bin.
- Runner up pick up of the day - Chick Fil A after the show for lunch.
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Thanks!
<< <i>Report from the show for those interested:
- Peyton Manning is bigger than I imagined
- Not much vintage card action, about 50% autos and auto items
- Lots of bargain 80's. 50 ct Glavine and Smoltz RC's all brands for $5 each. Was a little shocked by that.
- Junk wax at all time lows IMO. 1990 Upper Deck Hi Series Hockey Sets for $1 each.
- 1977 SCDs for $1 each. Picked up a few.
- Pick up of the day, Martin Brodeur Score RC in .10 cent bin.
- Runner up pick up of the day - Chick Fil A after the show for lunch. >>
Thanks, now I feel even better about my decision to not drive 6 hours (one way) to that show.
<< <i>Thanks, now I feel even better about my decision to not drive 6 hours (one way) to that show. >>
Gee, we could've split the drive and made it there and back in half the time...
Not much pre-'80 graded. I don't recall seeing tables with all graded cards. It was more on the order of mostly raw with some graded cards mixed in. Lots and lots and lots of mid-grade, raw 50's, 60's, and 70's baseball. I noticed quite a bit of '74 topps baseball in around ex-mt condition. If you like building mid-grade, pre-80 baseball sets, this is the show for you. I saw quite a bit of raw football and hockey as well. I saw one really cool table with high dollar pre-war cards. One more really cool thing I saw were two albums of autographed, 74 and 76 baseball commons for $4 each. There was a third year of autographed cards at that table as well (maybe 73, I don't remember).
I'm only collecting graded '75 mini's. I found 7 PSA 8 commons at one table for $5 each, including a very nice Ed Hermann (tough to find centered and without snow), Gary Matthews, Charlie Hough, and Mike Jorgensen. That's the first time I've stumbled on PSA graded 75 mini commons there. I also found a nice lot of raw '75 mini commons (nice Taveras, Randall, and others), but it was alot of work, and after awhile, I called it quits with sore eyes. The lighting is terrible there at the Expo, so bring a lighted magnifying glass with you if you care about really nice raw cards; wrinkles are easy to miss there with that poor lighting.
Wow. I thought I had done a good job of downsizing my collection to keeping only what I liked and some of the 'value' cards, even if they were just $1 cards like Glavine, Johnson, Biggio, Thomas, or Griffey RCs, etc. Apparently, I need to do some serious recalculations. 10 cents each isn't even worth flea market value. At least this will free up some space.
Anyone attending this weekend? Attendance will be limited. Looks like some auction houses opting out too.
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No I was going to go but forgot it was 10 years ago.
Now this is more like it. If you go would you take some pictures. Would really be nice
to see some pics from a show.
And I couldn't resist the previous post. Sorry.
I do like the resurrected threads.
Chantilly show coming up. Anyone attending? I am hopefully going Friday.
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I love it when I start reading a thread, and then at some point I realize it was from 12 years ago…. Guess the photobucket pic should have been a dead giveaway.
Nic
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Friday at 1pm .....
im going in june. Tax time for me.
See you in Chantilly. Those dealers better have some nice basketball !!!!
I usually find some nice Star Company BKB at Chantilly.
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Speaking of the Big Bopper and the Mercury Records release of Chantilly Lace, to this day there still some controversy as to whether it was ever issued on a 78 RPM record - not the Canadian Mercury label as that does exist... but the American label.
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Dealers better bring some good Basketball cards. YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Show report: very crowded. Lots of new smaller (table size) dealers with new shiny stuff. Lots of mystery grab bag shenanigans. A few YouTubers filming. Crowd seemed happier than usual if that makes sense. Card prices certainly off from the show I attended last summer. Just missed out on a great Star Basketball lot. But got a few fun items. Mid 80s BB stars in high grade are heating up. Pokémon is starting to come back to earth. 1986 Fleer BKB was very hard to find today. I thought BBCE was setting up but I didn’t see them. Junk wax is back to being junk again - lots of $10 and $15 boxes. Supplies are all back at normal prices more or less. CSG slabs are everywhere and dealers telling me they are grading TUFF.
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Another Show report: Very crowded for a Friday, much more crowded than pre-pandemic days on a Friday. Seemed to be a lot of different dealers (and more of them) than pre-pandemic days. Some of the long time dealers usually at this show seemed to be gone and others were in slightly different locations than the old shows. Also, dealers seemed to have their usual same stuff, but were in a smaller physical space. Signs weren't as prevalent/obvious. I'm told that this will be the configuration going forward. I don't like the configuration as much, but maybe it will take getting used to. There was room for more dealer tables in an overflow room, but they may not want anymore. Because, the autograph area is in that overflow room, so the crowd won't bleed into the dealers tables. There were very few little kids at the show today. Not sure if there will be more on Saturday and/or Sunday. To his credit, I think the promoter wants this to be a card show with some autograph guests rather an an autograph show with some cards.
Lots of (what we old-timers) call "the shiny crap" in all sports. Seemed to be a fewer tables of the 10 for $1 cards, although there were still some. Lots of autograph cards, patch cards, etc,...Very little vintage in all sports. Very little memorabilia in all sports. Only saw a few auction houses setup.
How was 80s unopened baseball? Any price points that you noticed?
Thanks,
John
Not a lot of it there. 1985 Donruss BBCE FASC $400.
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You really have to look closely to find any vintage unopened at the Chantilly show. It exists in small amounts. There was plenty of vintage cards, but unopened is very hard to come by. I got there Friday at 1:00 sharp and was able to purchased these that are pictured. I saw a few dealers with bbce wax boxes of 1986 Topps football, 1983 Topps baseball, 1984 Topps football, 1982 Topps baseball. Prices were at or above retail or eBay comps.
Of course BBCE was there and came with a selection of wax boxes and slabbed packs as well.
The autograph area of the show, on Saturday when I was there, was an absolute disaster. Very poorly managed - broken public address system for a few hours led to very poor communication of what was going on when. They had a white board with data published for the crowd, but stopped maintaining it about 1:30 PM or so. They didn't have any control over the entrance to the autograph area and were constantly trying to move people back out of an area that they had taped off on the floor. They sold way too many tickets for some of the guests. For example, we had tickets 31, 32 and 33 for a specific signer and we watched as at least 100 people that went in front of us with VIP tickets ($129 up charge to go to the front of any autograph line). Therefore, the number on our ticket was essentially meaningless in determining when we'd get through the line - poor considering we paid to get into the show and no choice but stand there and wait and wait for hours... so much for going to the actual card show! All in all, we arrived in the autograph area at 11:50 AM for a guest that was to begin signing at 12:00. We got our autograph at 3:05 PM only after one of the security personnel "let us in early" because we had been standing there at the front corner of the entrance area for so long.
Very disappointing experience and I won't be back for another autograph there until they straighten this mess out.
Steve
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Let’s see how down the market is this weekend. Will be there Friday for sure.
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Quick show report.
Well attended for a Friday. Seemed like lots of deals happening. Most patrons in a good mood - still a lot of surly dealers.
Base cards are available for pretty cheap. Bought a 3200 count box of chrome and prisms base All sports 2018-2022 with tons of refractors. stars and RCs for $60 just to have something to go through with the kids. One dealer had a table full of those boxes.
Vintage prices certainly down from 2021 but still 50% over eBay. Lost dealers agreeing to take about 20 percent off asking price. Lots of CSG, HGA, GAI.
CSG prices about 75 present of PSA.
Show was better logistically as well - easy in and out.
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Thanks for the report. Any action on unopened wax?
Only saw one table with some graded vintage packs - PSA slabbed early 70s FB and BB. Seemed like fewer tables with wax overall. Almost no junk wax either. 1990 Fleer BKB was prevalent at around $120/box.
Majority of tables limited to just showcases with graded cards and not much else. Very few 3200 boxes to rummage through.
The usual suspects were all there. Thanks
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I typically go to this show 2 to 3 times a year. This may have been one of my faves. Sometimes I just walk out with nothing purchased but still enjoy it. But this time found a lot of stuff I really liked. Had a lot of cool convos. Nice mix of old and new. Felt like more hockey than usual and for this weekend that really worked. Loved getting these Caulfields and like stocking up on the Mercers. Kaprizov is my favorite player so loved finding this on the cheap. Was pleasantly surprised to see some 75 football in nice shape. Never had a 75 Tom so love having this. Never had an 82 Fleer Cal either so dig it. Been trying to find this Evolving Skies Glaceon in nice shape for a while.
Got a Vince Young auto at what I felt was a reasonable price. Seems like inflation is hitting the autograph world somehow so a lot of those are less appealing to me. The only thing that bothered me was my $3 pack of Saturday Night Fever. The last card was a gorgeous Travolta scene with a disco ball but after 45 years the gum was absolutely fused with it.
The Stabler and Plunketts are sweet! Beautiful
Thanks for the updates everyone.
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I will be there Friday. May do an SGC sub.
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i will be there in june. tax time for me.
I hadn't planned on going but I am totally interested now. Thank you!
I always worry about shipping cards, especially the ones worth 1K or more, so a drop off would be awesome!
Nathaniel, I was on the show website https://csashows.com/ and it mentioned SGC but not the details. Do you have more details? Thanks, BC
FROM SGC website: <$1,500 $15 <$3,500 $85
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Flying out from hartford in the morning to go.
I have done SGC drop off service last 2 shows. It’s pretty much $15 for regular size cards $1500 declared value. They also beat their posted turnaround time.
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