Hey fellas,
I've been inspired by Clarkey's 329* today to kick off 2012 with a decent mailday!!
With my Futera cricket collection being 98% complete it is getting tough to find new additions, so I've been slowly torturing myself keeping an eye out for matching some numbers up on a few of my insert cards.
For example, my Warne hat trick auto is #0030/2250, and I've always wanted to track down the unsigned version numbered 1030/2250 or 2030/2250 to sort of match in with the auto number. Unfortunately looking for 2 specific cards out of the 2,100 unsigned versions from a set released 16 years ago seemed highly unlikely! Anyway I kept keeping an eye out and I saw another hat trick card listed on ebay recently and the seller didn't say what number it was and had no pic of the back of the card. I very nearly didn't bother with sending a message but I did send him one......and what do you know???!!!
Another one I wanted to track down was a matching unsigned Border Master card (either 142/500, 242/500, 342/500 or 442/500) to go with the gold seal auto version, which is number 042/500. Once again only 4 cards out there out of the 450 unsigned versions, so less than 1%! But the persistence paid off:
And finally I caved in and grabbed a second one of these
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So consecutive numbers - one has an unpunched redemption card and the other is punched (and apparently only 20 of the 50 gold seal autos have certification card numbering matching the signature card, which these both do):
And these two also have matching numbers:
Thanks for looking! Now I'm off to sort the jar of 100s & 1000s in my pantry by colour and then arrange my kitchen spices into alphabetical order
Can Sachin finally get that 100th 100 tomorrow?? I hope so! It would be fitting to knock it off in the 100th Test at the SCG.
I've been inspired by Clarkey's 329* today to kick off 2012 with a decent mailday!!
With my Futera cricket collection being 98% complete it is getting tough to find new additions, so I've been slowly torturing myself keeping an eye out for matching some numbers up on a few of my insert cards.
For example, my Warne hat trick auto is #0030/2250, and I've always wanted to track down the unsigned version numbered 1030/2250 or 2030/2250 to sort of match in with the auto number. Unfortunately looking for 2 specific cards out of the 2,100 unsigned versions from a set released 16 years ago seemed highly unlikely! Anyway I kept keeping an eye out and I saw another hat trick card listed on ebay recently and the seller didn't say what number it was and had no pic of the back of the card. I very nearly didn't bother with sending a message but I did send him one......and what do you know???!!!
Another one I wanted to track down was a matching unsigned Border Master card (either 142/500, 242/500, 342/500 or 442/500) to go with the gold seal auto version, which is number 042/500. Once again only 4 cards out there out of the 450 unsigned versions, so less than 1%! But the persistence paid off:
And finally I caved in and grabbed a second one of these
:.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
So consecutive numbers - one has an unpunched redemption card and the other is punched (and apparently only 20 of the 50 gold seal autos have certification card numbering matching the signature card, which these both do):
And these two also have matching numbers
:
Thanks for looking! Now I'm off to sort the jar of 100s & 1000s in my pantry by colour and then arrange my kitchen spices into alphabetical order
Can Sachin finally get that 100th 100 tomorrow?? I hope so! It would be fitting to knock it off in the 100th Test at the SCG.
