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Completed display project for you unopened guys!

yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 988 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I bought four shadow boxes on sale at Hobby Lobby right before Christmas and had a vision in my mind to use them to display some graded packs. I took the shadow boxes to a local framing shop and explained what I was trying to do. They built some insets as well as the rest of the "guts" of them and I paid to have them replace the original glass with museum glass. Here's the results. I'm very pleased and looking forward to getting these hung up!

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Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
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  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    Nicely done.

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 988 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks! They're set up so I can pull one pack out and change them out whenever I want to. I was pleased with how they turned out.
    Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
    www.questfortherookiecup.com
  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Well done!!! I especially like your choice as 1975 is my favorite set and the Mets are my favorite team (although I'm sure to get heckled for the last point, LOL).

    I'd love to see the finished product with them all hung up when you get the chance. Thanks for sharing.
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  • curchcurch Posts: 590 ✭✭✭
    That looks awesome!
    Always looking for vintage wax boxes!
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Very nice job. Looks real nice!
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  • aconteaconte Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭
    I like it too.

    aconte
  • belzbelz Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭
    Cool!!!
    "Wots Uh The Deal" by Pink Floyd
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Nice job, love the black, contrasts nice with the 75's.

    Good for you.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Has great eye appeal.

    Is that the car you took the pic in?

    Hi Steve.
    Mike
  • ashabbyashabby Posts: 471 ✭
    Looks great
  • elsnortoelsnorto Posts: 2,012 ✭✭
    That looks terrific!

    I like that you designed them so packs can easily be swapped out, so you can rotate your collection and change things up a bit.

    So, including the museum glass for UV protection, what do you expect the total cost per frame will be... if you don't mind my asking?

    Snorto~
  • Probstein123Probstein123 Posts: 1,281 ✭
    I like it
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  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 988 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Has great eye appeal.

    Is that the car you took the pic in?

    Hi Steve. >>



    Ha. Yeah. I knew I had to go straight from work to my son's baseball practice and it would be late when I got in and wouldn't feel like taking the pic then. image
    Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
    www.questfortherookiecup.com
  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 988 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That looks terrific!

    I like that you designed them so packs can easily be swapped out, so you can rotate your collection and change things up a bit.

    So, including the museum glass for UV protection, what do you expect the total cost per frame will be... if you don't mind my asking?

    Snorto~ >>



    I'm in them for about $70 per including the museum glass. Without adding the museum glass it would have been about $40 per. Hobby Lobby was going to be cheaper building out the insets and I wasn't going to use museum glass but I left the frames at Hobby Lobby for two months and couldn't get them to complete the order. Had they done it I would have been in at about $27 per (obviously without the museum glass).

    Thanks for all the compliments!
    Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
    www.questfortherookiecup.com
  • alifaxwa2alifaxwa2 Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>That looks terrific!

    I like that you designed them so packs can easily be swapped out, so you can rotate your collection and change things up a bit.

    So, including the museum glass for UV protection, what do you expect the total cost per frame will be... if you don't mind my asking?

    Snorto~ >>



    I'm in them for about $70 per including the museum glass. Without adding the museum glass it would have been about $40 per. Hobby Lobby was going to be cheaper building out the insets and I wasn't going to use museum glass but I left the frames at Hobby Lobby for two months and couldn't get them to complete the order. Had they done it I would have been in at about $27 per (obviously without the museum glass).

    Thanks for all the compliments! >>


    Can you post a pic of the inside?
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  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 988 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sure. I'll do that when I get home tonight.
    Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
    www.questfortherookiecup.com
  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 988 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's some pictures of the inside of the frames:

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    Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
    www.questfortherookiecup.com
  • alifaxwa2alifaxwa2 Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Here's some pictures of the inside of the frames:
    >>


    Thanks for those pics. That was alot simpler in the inside than I imagined.
    Looking to have some custom cuts or plain custom cards built? PM me.

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  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 988 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah, I agree. There was alot less involved than I expected too. I believe I might take a stab at doing it myself next time.
    Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
    www.questfortherookiecup.com
  • seebelowseebelow Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭
    i like the centering on the berra. very nice project!
    Interested in higher grade vintage cards. Aren't we all. image
  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 988 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Finally got around to hanging a couple of them up Friday. Here's some pics:

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    Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
    www.questfortherookiecup.com
  • blee1blee1 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭
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  • totallyraddtotallyradd Posts: 941 ✭✭✭✭
    Looking good! I love the shadow boxes for the packs.

    Is that a gamer Mattingly jersey? Good stuff!
  • lahmejoonlahmejoon Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭✭
    Love the Atari sighting, and the John Tudor sighting too!
  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 988 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looking good! I love the shadow boxes for the packs.

    Is that a gamer Mattingly jersey? Good stuff! >>



    Ha! I wish it was a gamer. It's the jersey my wife bought me early on in our marriage. I sent it off to a private signing for the auto.
    Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
    www.questfortherookiecup.com
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful display!


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
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