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  • erba
    erba Posts: 345 ✭✭✭✭
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    @MinorLeaguer said:
    It's funny what gets each of us excited about in this hobby of ours. I've had the 1980 Soo Greyhounds police set and singles from it as a saved ebay search for 15-20 years now. I've never seen the whole set listed on ebay, I actually found and bought my full set on Amazon a decade or so ago. I have seen Ron Francis's first card which is also out of this set as a single listed about 3 times over that timespan on ebay and now this is the first time I've ever seen the Beezer first card out of that set listed on ebay, Just really rare stuff that only a few of us see the value in. I don't even care that is has writing in pen on the back of it. Guessing there can't be more than 25 of these left globally.

    Adding to this post from a while ago. I picked up the card and was able to get it signed and got it back in today’s mail. So happy to add this to my signed collection.

  • Chicago1976
    Chicago1976 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Recent pick up. Working on the '54 Blackhawks team set.

  • 80sOPC
    80sOPC Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What a card, congrats!

  • erba
    erba Posts: 345 ✭✭✭✭
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    That's great. I love oddball stuff like this.

  • dtmodel
    dtmodel Posts: 135 ✭✭✭✭
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    Spectacular looking card! I really love the 69 + 70 Stanley Cup cards.

  • 80sOPC
    80sOPC Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Total pop of 35, pretty scarce for
    a RC of an all time great

  • stanforddude
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    Beautiful card. Looks undergraded. Congrats Nathanael! Over the last 20 years I've seen 4 or 5 of these come up for sale and I've always been on the lookout. One of them was in a KSA holder, that might have made it's way to this PSA 3.5 slab. I noticed yours listed for sale by a dealer in one of the Facebook groups and was very tempted to take a run at it. Did you grab it at the recent Toronto Expo?

    @Frozencaribou said:
    One of the scarcest vintage error cards, and a hall of famer as well, this Tim Horton card has been on my wantlist for a decade. Happy to pick one up.

    A cool twist to this is that when Parkhurst was correcting the error, they made a tan backed version where you can clearly see the team at the printing factory at work correcting the error.

    -Nathanael


  • Frozencaribou
    Frozencaribou Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @stanforddude said:
    Beautiful card. Looks undergraded. Congrats Nathanael! Over the last 20 years I've seen 4 or 5 of these come up for sale and I've always been on the lookout. One of them was in a KSA holder, that might have made it's way to this PSA 3.5 slab. I noticed yours listed for sale by a dealer in one of the Facebook groups and was very tempted to take a run at it. Did you grab it at the recent Toronto Expo?

    Yes- I was able to make a big trade/purchase from Larry at the recent Toronto expo for this Horton. As there are so few of these known to the hobby, it made sense for me because I've collected the set for 20 years.

    -Nathanael

  • erba
    erba Posts: 345 ✭✭✭✭
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    This was a card that I wanted to have signed for a while. Finally a private signing popped up for him and I sent it in. I followed the tracking back home and was pretty excited to rip it open and check it out. Imagine my surprise to see that Pierre Turgeon signed Dave Andreychuk's card.

  • RedHeart54
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    edited May 19, 2026 7:32PM
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    That is truly bizarre. I mean, yes, Dave and Pierre were teammates in Buffalo but why in the world did Pierre sign it when you sent it in to have Dave sign it?

    MERCI BEAUCOUP Pierre! It’s not like this card is easy to find or anything!

  • erba
    erba Posts: 345 ✭✭✭✭
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    @RedHeart54 said:
    That is truly bizarre. I mean, yes, Dave and Pierre were teammates in Buffalo but why in the world did Pierre sign it when you sent it in to have Dave sign it?

    MERCI BEAUCOUP Pierre! It’s not like this card is easy to find or anything!

    I sent 2 cards in to the same for 2 different signings that the promoter was doing. One for Dave and one for Pierre. Still amazed that it happened. At least I can say I have a 1/1 auto'd card!

  • dtmodel
    dtmodel Posts: 135 ✭✭✭✭
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    Chief!!!

    Still active with Bruins after all these decades!

  • MinorLeaguer
    MinorLeaguer Posts: 555 ✭✭✭✭
    edited May 30, 2026 12:55AM
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    @erba said:
    This was a card that I wanted to have signed for a while. Finally a private signing popped up for him and I sent it in. I followed the tracking back home and was pretty excited to rip it open and check it out. Imagine my surprise to see that Pierre Turgeon signed Dave Andreychuk's card.

    D'oh!!! As someone said, not the easiest card to find. I have a creased low grade copy you can have in case you want to try sending it in again. If interested, let me know where to send it.

  • erba
    erba Posts: 345 ✭✭✭✭
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    @MinorLeaguer said:

    @erba said:
    This was a card that I wanted to have signed for a while. Finally a private signing popped up for him and I sent it in. I followed the tracking back home and was pretty excited to rip it open and check it out. Imagine my surprise to see that Pierre Turgeon signed Dave Andreychuk's card.

    D'oh!!! As someone said, not the easiest card to find. I have a creased low grade copy you can have in case you want to try sending it in again. If interested, let me know where to send it.

    Thank you for the offer. I was able to get another one (which the promoter paid for) and now waiting for another signing.

  • rjcoy06
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  • stanforddude
    stanforddude Posts: 95 ✭✭✭
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    Couldn’t afford a T206 Wagner, so I had to settle for this Jared Aulin that was pulled early from production!

  • gameusedhoop
    gameusedhoop Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭✭
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    That is a really pretty Orr Rookie. Congrats on the pick up.

  • 80sRockNut
    80sRockNut Posts: 69 ✭✭
    edited July 16, 2026 6:27PM
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    Just got this in the mail today and it is even better looking in-hand ...

  • 80sRockNut
    80sRockNut Posts: 69 ✭✭
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    Just got this in the mail today and it is even better looking in-hand ...
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  • picklepete
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    @stanforddude said:
    Couldn’t afford a T206 Wagner, so I had to settle for this Jared Aulin that was pulled early from production!

    Why was this card pulled ?

  • stanforddude
    stanforddude Posts: 95 ✭✭✭
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    Upper Deck printed this card (along with a few other 2001 Young Guns rookies) before realizing they had violated the NHLPA licensing agreement where rookies had to have played at least one NHL game before they could appear on a licensed NHL trading card. Aulin had not yet played an NHL game. Upper Deck pulled the card and replaced it with a John LeClair Young Guns Flashback card as the official #220. A few of the Aulins slipped into packs. Here are the other 2001 Young Guns that possibly made their way out Upper Deck’s back door. These are super tough to find. The Aulin is the easiest of the bunch, yet I’ve only seen a handful show up on Ebay over the past 20 years:

    212 Ivan Huml
    213 Igor Knyazev
    214 Pavel Vorobiev
    216 Steve Ott
    217 Alexei Smirnov
    218 Stephen Weiss
    219 Mikhail Yakoubov
    220 Jared Aulin
    221 Yanick Lehoux
    222 Ari Ahonen
    223 Raffi Torres
    224 Jason Spezza
    226 Alexander Svitov
    229 Karel Pilar
    230 Brad Boyes

  • 80sOPC
    80sOPC Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Its a shame that rookie class was so weak, a short print superstar rookie would have been epic.

  • 80sOPC
    80sOPC Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Always loved this card design, and the player. Such a clutch playoff warrior:

  • miwlvrn
    miwlvrn Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 11, 2026 7:03PM
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  • Chicago1976
    Chicago1976 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭✭✭
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