First off a big thank you to bjs127 Brad for keeping me in mind when he decided to split up his epic Cricket card collection and allowed me to purchase these sets off of him.
Thank you to Ozcardtrader, cos if it wasn't for this website I don't think I would've come across these cards and other rare cards that I have picked up since joining. A great site with great members
The first set is the 1996 Elite Impact set of which only 50 exists and rarely ever seen (the only other one I've seen is pineneedlebeetle Russell's set).
The first time I had come across these cricket cards (back 1996) I was intrigued by the design and quality of this set. Even when I had stopped collecting I had always wanted to complete this set as I had the base and specialists sets. Forward ten years and back into collecting I had finally completed the Freshmen set, a year later I had found the Caught Marsh Bowled Lillee signature card
One thing was still missing, F1 on the checklist, what the .... was the F1?. Well the Futera file soon enlightened me as to what it was. Then the hunt was on to find that card/s. Even at the last card show I went to; sashsquach and Footycards were telling me that they even haven't seen these cards before and it could take 25 years to even come across these. I wasn't too happy to hear that
Then came along February 2013, what a month! Firstly the Baggio Gold/ Diamond card shows up for sale..... then a week later these.
So 16 years later I have finally finished off this set and here is the 1996 Futera Impact card set number 20 out of 50!:
The second Impact card is from the 1996/97 Decider series of which only 25 Impact cards exist, this being #006/25:
Cheers!
Thank you to Ozcardtrader, cos if it wasn't for this website I don't think I would've come across these cards and other rare cards that I have picked up since joining. A great site with great members
The first set is the 1996 Elite Impact set of which only 50 exists and rarely ever seen (the only other one I've seen is pineneedlebeetle Russell's set).
The first time I had come across these cricket cards (back 1996) I was intrigued by the design and quality of this set. Even when I had stopped collecting I had always wanted to complete this set as I had the base and specialists sets. Forward ten years and back into collecting I had finally completed the Freshmen set, a year later I had found the Caught Marsh Bowled Lillee signature card
One thing was still missing, F1 on the checklist, what the .... was the F1?. Well the Futera file soon enlightened me as to what it was. Then the hunt was on to find that card/s. Even at the last card show I went to; sashsquach and Footycards were telling me that they even haven't seen these cards before and it could take 25 years to even come across these. I wasn't too happy to hear that
Then came along February 2013, what a month! Firstly the Baggio Gold/ Diamond card shows up for sale..... then a week later these.
So 16 years later I have finally finished off this set and here is the 1996 Futera Impact card set number 20 out of 50!:
The second Impact card is from the 1996/97 Decider series of which only 25 Impact cards exist, this being #006/25:
Cheers!