It’s Helmar Tuesday. More than 100 hand-made cards up for auction!!

[Leon]

This is a paid advertisement.


It’s Helmar Tuesday. More than 100 hand-made cards up for auction!!

Auctions closes Tonight, 9pm, Eastern.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_nkw=...affles&_sop=16


HELMAR: NEW CARDS IN LOVE WITH THE PAST

Please unwrap your cards and hold them close! We spend a lot of time creating each evocative texture and aroma!

The Current Helmar Auction Closes Tuesday

Our team of artists creates baseball cards that bring you closer to the greatest players in the game than any other contemporary baseball card maker.

We create just 6 of each card per year, maximum.

Our cards are THICK, they are ANTIQUED BY HAND, they have special TEXTURES and SCENTS that will delight your eyes, hand, nose, and mind.

https://helmarbrewing.com/artwork/

HELMAR SUBSCRIBERS:

BASEBALL HISTORY & ART MAGAZINE
DIGITAL EDITION
AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW

For Helmar subscribers, the digital edition of the winter 2015 magazine is available right now. Amazing Helmar art and articles on Three Finger Brown, Johnny Evers, collecting the PCL, and Charles Ebbets, amongst a visual smorgasbord of great baseball articles and anecdotes. The paper magazine will be available soon, but if you have a strong computer and big screen, you can read it now. Click here to log in or subscribe to Helmar.
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[irv]

Originally Posted by Leon

This is a paid advertisement.


It’s Helmar Tuesday. More than 100 hand-made cards up for auction!!

Auctions closes Tonight, 9pm, Eastern.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_nkw=...affles&_sop=16


HELMAR: NEW CARDS IN LOVE WITH THE PAST

Please unwrap your cards and hold them close! We spend a lot of time creating each evocative texture and aroma!

The Current Helmar Auction Closes Tuesday

Our team of artists creates baseball cards that bring you closer to the greatest players in the game than any other contemporary baseball card maker.

We create just 6 of each card per year, maximum.

Our cards are THICK, they are ANTIQUED BY HAND, they have special TEXTURES and SCENTS that will delight your eyes, hand, nose, and mind.

https://helmarbrewing.com/artwork/

HELMAR SUBSCRIBERS:

BASEBALL HISTORY & ART MAGAZINE
DIGITAL EDITION
AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW

For Helmar subscribers, the digital edition of the winter 2015 magazine is available right now. Amazing Helmar art and articles on Three Finger Brown, Johnny Evers, collecting the PCL, and Charles Ebbets, amongst a visual smorgasbord of great baseball articles and anecdotes. The paper magazine will be available soon, but if you have a strong computer and big screen, you can read it now. Click here to log in or subscribe to Helmar.
https://helmarbrewing.com/subscription/



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Those are pretty cool!

[xplainer]

Seems I'm in the wrong business.

These are modern made cards. Yet people send 110 plus on them?

I need to focus on that group of buyers.

LL - I understand a Paid Advertisement.

But wow. Makes me think of Danbury Mint Collector Plates and such.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I've never bought them, but I've always admired them. They're just cool.

[rhettyeakley]

I guess I get why a player collector would be into them but I 100% don't understand this stuff. Why would anybody pay $350 for a photoshopped image of Mickey Mantle in the form of a T206 card? Just not my cup of tea I suppose but calling something art doesn't mean it is. At least at the beginning they tried to market these Helmar things with beer or something, now they just churn out a few hundred "art" cards a week and people spend more on them than an actual vintage card of the player depicted!

[Jantz]

I bought one of the 6 player die cut cards at a card show and I will say that they are nice looking cards and great for displaying.

After reading Rhett's comment I wanted to add that I got my Helmar card for less than a T206 PSA 1 common.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Yeah I thought they were like $20 items, not $300. Unless they're actually hand drawn/painted (and then they at least have a claim to "art" status) I ain't paying $300.

[rholmes]

Blech.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Yeah I thought they were like $20 items, not $300. Unless they're actually hand drawn/painted (and then they at least have a claim to "art" status) I ain't paying $300.

Agreed, if the original art was available it would be actually a collectible. Just buying beat up unsigned prints of it seems like burning money.

I was a very critical opponent of Helmar in the past, but I will say they have improved by dating many of their products. Still would like to see that at 100%, but improvement is improvement.