Mail Day Recap: Rockies Sepia

Yesterday’s Mailday brought me a long overdue envelope that I was getting ready to hand over to the Postal gremlin. They were mailed a week before Christmas by new TCDB user @PennsylvaniaTiger. And am I ever glad the cards made it!

In exchange for ten 2019 Topps Heritage duplicates, I was able to obtain these two 2020 Stadium Club Sepia parallels for my Rockies PC. The images really pop for me, especially while looking at them side by side. Both guys have their gloves in a position to field the ball, and they’re both focused on fielding it just a fraction of a second later. The Rodgers card is especially sharp, as there is no motion blur on the baseball. That photographer definitely knew what they were doing. Thank you for the trade Michael!

2020 Topps Stadium Club Sepia Rockies Cards

The pre-Christmas trades are slowly starting to trickle in. In addition to the cards above, I also received three more 2018 Topps cards from a Twitter friend, and three more 1982 Topps Cards from TCDB Trader @nkandy11. That last trade had a throw in card from 2017 Topps as protection, but it’s one that I didn’t have, so I’ll definitely take it. Thanks for the trades guys!

1982 Topps Set Progress: 40 / 792 cards (5.1% complete)

2017 Topps Set Progress: 17 / 700 cards (2.4% complete)

2018 Topps Set Progress: 645 / 700 cards (92.1% complete) - I’m so close!!

I have a couple of other cards to show off some time this week. I know this one was short, but that’s going to happen as I get into the flow. Until next time, stay safe.

JDM

Mail Day Recap: 13 JAN 2021

Scratch one off the want list! I ordered this 2020 Heritage Josh Bell New Age Performer at the beginning of December from a seller on Sportlots. It was mailed December 12 in a nondescript envelope with a Non-Machinable stamp. It arrived today after a 30 day journey. Only the USPS knows where all it went or how long it sat in a post office sorting facility. But it’s here. And it’s the last New Age Performer for that particular insert set. This one feels good to get done.

The second picture are some cards I received from TCDB trader @jimsisco. They represent essentially the first cards I’ve acquired as I get ready to work on 2017 Topps during the year. He had a bunch, so I picked nine at random so we could use PWE. So these cards will go into the box with the seven I had previously. In one day, I doubled the number of 2017 Topps cards I had.

2017 Topps Set Process: 16 / 700 cards (2.3% complete)

Anyway, just a short one to show off the new acquisitions. More later, and as always, Stay Safe!

JDM

2020 Topps Heritage Josh Bell New Age Performer

2017 Topps Cards from TCDB User @jimsisco