I was really looking forward to the arrival of a trade envelope from TCDB member AgsWin99. He has been on the site for a little over a year but has only 25 completed trades, including the one we did this week. That did not discourage me from working out an excellent trade with him. I checked with a couple of his recent trade partners, and both gave him great ratings. I sent him about 20 various set needs and a few Topps Gold cards in return for 9 colorful Cardinals and a lone insert.
The highlight of the package was the 2011 Diamond Anniversary Musial card, a photo variation of the main set. There are 31 Cardinals in this set. I need five more, four of which are photo variations.
It is rare for me to get more than one or two gold parallels in a trade. I was thrilled to get six in this one.
I was surprised I did not have a want list for the 2011 black border parallel set. I like to go after any 2011 Topps parallel set since the Cardinals won that year's World Series. I made sure to add the set after receiving this card.
The only insert from the package was this 2005 Topps Edmonds card. I have the other 2 Cardinals in the set, Rolen and Pujols. Nice of Topps to give some recognition to the MV3 guys of 2004.
I really like the annual Topps gold parallels that are numbered to the year. There's enough of them out there that they're affordable. Maybe one day I'll start a frankenset.
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