Saturday brought the 4th and final card show of the year at the Effingham Event Center. This is my favorite show because it is only 45 minutes from home, and there is always a good variety of value boxes and vintage without much Pokemon to skip over. I decided to only hit up the value boxes for this show. I spent most of my vintage budget at a show in October, and I only had about 90 minutes to spend at the show. I spent $24 with five different dealers.
These cards were $1 each. Not a bad price, but I should have waited on the Altuve card.
The next dealer had a monster box of 2025 and 2026 Topps Holiday parallels for a quarter each. I found some Cardinals for myself, some Cubs for another TCDB member, and a few other cards for trade bait. You can see from the last scan I got 2 Altuve cards for my son, including another green Metallic one.
The cards were 8 for $1. All trade bait for team collectors on TCDB.
I forgot to keep the cards separate from the fourth dealer I bought from, but he had some quarter boxes that I pulled 8 cards from. All of them were trade bait.
I saved the best for last. This dealer is the first one I always visit at this show. His dime boxes are always full of colored and numbered parallels. He also had a few other boxes of quarter cards and some various priced cards. I pulled 4 cards for $11, 32 quarter cards, and 55 dime cards. Total should have been $24.50. The dealer charged me $10. Wish I had more time to go through his boxes.
The two jersey cards and the autograph were labeled $3, while the Altuve photo variation was labeled $2.
I did not scan all the dime and quarter cards, but here is a sample of some of the Cardinals. Refractors, premium brands, colored, and numbered.
All these are trade bait. Great deal when the final price was less than ten cents each.
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