Finished my Allen & Ginter Quest!

[TimCarrollArt]

I've always been a fan of the framed mini autographs in Allen & Ginter. Specifically, the non-baseball subjects. I picked up several over the years that I really liked, and when Harrison Ford was announced for the 2019 set, I decided to make a go for one of those. I found it very difficult to land, so I poured over the older A&G checklists to see if there were any others I had missed in previous years that I needed to find. There were MANY. So I started buying. As I knocked my list down, I continued to add. Finally I decided to make a run at all of them. I set parameters. I only wanted base frames, no black frame/25s. No red ink/10s. No GinterX for the newer sets. I knew that Phelps had 8 poses in 2009 (limited to 8 copies each), but I was content with landing 1 copy of any of the poses. I passed on adding other variations from other years like the Blaine sig variation, the Seto Kanji variation, and Augie Carton green ink. I do have the 2020 Courtney Hansen gold ink, but I do not count it towards my run. Since the 2019 Fish was an unannounced SP/10, I left it out of my hunt. I also omitted all of the employee autographs. I added the 2008 Marcus Henderson relic because it was a guitar pick that was autographed. It fits the collection. I also picked up the 2007 Greg Oden that was limited to 100 copies....even though it was inserted in the basketball product Echelon. I do not count the Oden towards my count because it wasn't checklisted with the regular 2007 set. In 2015, Topps inserted 10th anniversary edition framed autographs into packs. They used previous subjects like Hogan, Patrick, Andretti, Chestnut, etc. 12 total subjects, 10 in each A&G design. I picked up one of each subject regardless of design.

The final checklist through 2021: 571 cards (there's 573 pictured because of the Oden/Hansen mentioned above.) This will be spread out across 4 posts below. Here's to hoping 2022 has some monster A-list celebrities to chase!