I was bidding on a bunch of 8x10's on Pristine Auctions and wound up winning 4 separate pictures. @ of them are of Actor Chris W. Cooper 1 from the Movie Jarhead (2005) and the other is from Adaption (2002). The other 2 are the same picture of HOF Jockey & Triple Crown winner Steve Cauthen one of them was smudged so I contacted them and they are crediting my account for the item as said didn't have another one. See the picture of the items below.
I claimed this card as part of the X thread hosted by @ngtcollectibles from @ MBalsley. The card is a 2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks of Ben Kudrna # PDP43. Ben was a 2nd round pick by the Royals and has pitched as high as AAA,
This morning I went to the PA Home & Garden show for the special guest Richard Karn (Al Borland of Home Improvement). He spoke and did a Q&A for 45 minutes and then stayed and did a Meet & Greet after. I was able to get a picture with him and he signed and personalized my 2 8x10's.
I made a purchase off of Facebook for 15 different autographed 8x10's of the Baltimore Orioles these all have MLB Authentic stickers & #'s looking them up they seem to be from Spring training from 2013-2016. Nice mix of players none are super expensive but a nice group for the cost. seller also threw in an unsigned Nelson Cruz. The following Players were included Brad Brach, Zack Britton, Ryan Flaherty 2X, Kevin Gausman, Miguel Gonzalez 2X(1 was listed as Jose Ramirez), Jason Hammel, Tommy Hunter, Ubaldo Jimenez, Jim Johnson, Caleb Joseph, Hyun-soo Kim, Bud Norris & Chris Tillman.
I've been adding some hockey Hall of Famers to the autograph collection this time this Be A Player Chris Pronger was had from EBay for about $10 with on card auto. The seller also included an unsigned version as well.
Mike and I went to the card show at the TownMall in Westminster on Saturday. The Signing guest was Al Bumbry which was 1 free per person I was able to get both 8x10's they had as Mike wasn't getting Bumbry again as he has enough of him. SO paid $10 for the 2 pictures and got them signed. As for the show was bad for what I was looking for bought 0 cards the only items I bought was from the promoter who had signed pictures for $10 each so I bought 4 different with my remaining Venmo balance. The autographs are of Rosey Grier, Timmy Jernigan, Jorge Mateo & Justin (Nnamdi) Madubuike. See pictures below of all.
I made a small trade with @DanKeeling21 on X my side was these 2 autographs Jahvon Quinerly 2022 Wild Card Matte #'d 82/100 & JD Bertrand 2024 Panini Contenders # 243. The RAK was from @LMiles64 from X of a 2025 Allen & Ginter Musician Chuck Ragan card he is doing a show locally so hoping to get this signed next month.
I saw a listing on Facebook for some Miami Dolphin autographed 8x10's and was able to swing a deal for 6 pictures for less than $7 each 5 of the 6 have JSA or PSA certs. The players I got were Salvon Ahmed, two Jerome Baker's, Christian Wilkins (Clemson Uniform), Jeff Wilson & a Verone McKinley. See the picture below of all 6.
This is the Baseball portion of the large autograph I made last week off of Facebook the total is of 82 Baseball autographed cards. See below for a complete listing and pictures of all of them.
I won a couple items from Pristine daily auctions last week and when checking used a code so these 2 8x10's were basically free. First is of former Carolina Panthers WR Terrace Marshall Jr. he is currently signed with the Miami Dolphins the other is a Collage of the 2025 Alabama University Baseball team which was signed by 10 members of the team (Kade Snell, Bryce Fowler, Will Hodo, Will Planter, Braylin Myers, Hagan Banks, Carson Ozmer, Zane Adams, Brady Neal & Riley Quick). See both pictures below.
I added this 1997 Pinnacle be a player # 2 autograph of Hockey Hall of Famer Dave Andreychuk this is the Gold version and has an on card auto that was once pulled from a pack back in the day. I got this off eBay for less than $7. Great add to the Hockey HOF collection see the card below.
I was able to add this 1992 Pro Line Portraits Ken Stabler autograph (Certified Authentic embossed in the corner) to my Football HOF autograph collection from an eBay purchase Ken is 314th member of the Hall of Fame that I have an autograph of, not bad down to needing 73. See the actual card front and back classic picture on the front with autograph on the back.
I posted some autographs on Facebook for sale and was offered a trade for a Steve Lombardozzi auto. I accepted and my side was the following:
Picked up another Hockey HOFer for the autograph collection it was from eBay for less than $7. This time it was a 2002-03 Be a Player Signature Series #012 of Daniel Alfredsson of the Ottawa Senators. see the card below.
Today's HOF autograph collection add comes from basketball and is this Bob Dandridge 2023-24 Panini Prizm #SS-BG #'d 11/99 Sensational Signatures. This was another purchase from eBay.
I've started to add additional autographs to my HOF autograph collections for the other sports I had been focusing on the Football HOF. So today's add is from the Hockey HOF, this very nice 2014-15 Panini Anthology # HNL-30 & #'d 037/122 of Johnny Bower. This was purchased off of eBay.
Today I received 2 different packages in the mail the first was an eBay purchase of a 2024-25 Panini Prizm #PNM-DGC Doug Collins autograph. A nice add to the Basketball HOF autograph collection. the second was a #RAK from X @PaulrickP from last Sunday's Free card thread I claimed 2 PC Ravens 2004 Fleer Ultras of Ed Reed & Terrell Suggs.
I bought a lot off of eBay for minimal $ the lot was 6 Leaf & Sage autographs see who below and then pictures of the cards.
Picked up this 2024 Leaf Metal #MHI-SS1 #'d 76/150 of Sheryl Swoopes off of eBay to add to my Basketball HOF autograph collection. This is a nice card and has HOF inscription weird no year as most I see has that along with the HOF. See the card below.
I'm also adding to my Basketball HOFers I found and purchased this nice 2021-22 Panini Chronicles Playoff George McGinnis # HOF-GMC #'d 61/99. I asked the seller if it could go standard envelope he said he would add another card in the package which was fine with me that card wound up being a 2022/23 Panini Mosaic Robert Parish autograph # AM-PAR. See both cards below.
I have been looking to add Jack Lambert's autograph to my Hall of Fame collection and found one on eBay that was nice and in my price range. Jack is the 308th in my collection, this is a Goal Line Art card which are #'d /5000 this version is a limited Gold Edition #'d 3/100 that the Football Hall of Fame stamped and had autographed.
Mike and I went to the show in Westminster MD on Saturday, it wasn't great as it was a lot of Pokémon, Slabbed and unopened all of which I have very little interest in. But I did make 3 purchases for a total of 5 cards. The main one was an autograph of hockey HOFer Sergei Zubov a 2005-06 Upper Deck SP Game Used Edition # ST-SZ #'d 31/79. The other 4 were all $1 box cards, See them below.
I made a trade of 8x10's with a buddy of mine we meet up at the show in Westminster, MD today my side was 2 8x10's 1 football former Steelers TE Mark Bruener & 1 baseball Former Houston Astros Pitcher Chad Qualls. See both below.
I'm starting to look at filling in some other Hall of Famers that I need from other sports as my Football collection is the main HOF collection there are a number of less expensive autographs available of people I need and would like to add to the collection. So with that said I found this nice autographed card of Daniel Sedin Hockey HOFer the card is a 2020-21 Upper Deck SP Signature Edition Legends #DC-99, It's Die-Cut and has 2010's.
I added Don Hutson's autograph to my Football HOF autograph collection this is my 307th different inductee that I have. This was an eBay purchase and is encapsulated by SGC and authenticated by JSA. I now have over 80% complete. Hoping with the new class announcement next week that I have most of the new members, but we will see I don't have Bill Belichick but it looks like he's not getting in this year so good for the collection count personally I thought he would get in.
A couple weeks ago I got in on a couple days of auctions at Pristine started out with a few needs I was bidding on wound up winning one then picked up 8 additional items for the right prices so got a total of 9 items. See pictures of them below along with a list of who I got. All items have either Beckett or JSA authentications on them. I was also able to use a $25 coupon code which added to the reasonable prices as well for these items.
Last Night was the annual on ice autograph session after the Hershey Bears game. The Bears lost the game 3-2 to the Cleveland Monsters in OT. The Session went about as good as possible as I got all the items I had to get signed plus the team picture which was the giveaway for the game. I was able to get 24 player/coaches and a total of 72 autographs. See below for a list of who and what along with pictures of the items along with a couple of the players.
