LAST DAY at the National

[Brent G.]

Best of luck to everyone out there today — let’s see those final day deals!

[UKCardGuy]

Hopefully today is a little quieter and I have a chance to speak with a few more people.

Here's a few photos that I took yesterday

The i Dream of Jeannie and Wonder Woman costumes were a cool display.

[LuckyLarry]

I was at the show from 9-1 not busy plenty of elbow room. I bought a few moe exhibit football cards (SPs) that I hadn’t seen all week. For me, the best table at the show, was 1/2 off everything today. I was buying clean 1957 and 1959 Topps football cards for $1. Huge bargains there all week. I had fun digging through these boxes all week. But a kind of “card fog” was setting in, and really tired of walking around. I ate liunch at one of the mobile food carts, walked through the corporate areas I’ve avoided all week, and I’m ready to go home. Uber to ORD 3 hours before my flight but I’m looking through my cards and glad to be sitting down. Lists I hit the most 1958 Hires Root Beer baseball b cards I bought 17 I think including the Aaron. 1964 Topps Stand Ups bought quite a few of these including a duplicate Mickey Mantle SGC slabbed A for color added was $275. 1963 Fleer football Lance Alworth RC without stripe on reverse closed out my master set. Bought many OPC hockey cards too. Great hanging out with many friends old and new, I’ll post a picture of my pickups tomorrow. 10 out of 10 I’ll be back next year! Safe travels home everyone!
Lucky Larry (on Net 54)
Guru ( to the OBC Guys)

[timber63401]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

I was at the show from 9-1 not busy plenty of elbow room. I bought a few moe exhibit football cards (SPs) that I hadn’t seen all week. For me, the best table at the show, was 1/2 off everything today. I was buying clean 1957 and 1959 Topps football cards for $1. Huge bargains there all week. I had fun digging through these boxes all week. But a kind of “card fog” was setting in, and really tired of walking around. I ate liunch at one of the mobile food carts, walked through the corporate areas I’ve avoided all week, and I’m ready to go home. Uber to ORD 3 hours before my flight but I’m looking through my cards and glad to be sitting down. Lists I hit the most 1958 Hires Root Beer baseball b cards I bought 17 I think including the Aaron. 1964 Topps Stand Ups bought quite a few of these including a duplicate Mickey Mantle SGC slabbed A for color added was $275. 1963 Fleer football Lance Alworth RC without stripe on reverse closed out my master set. Bought many OPC hockey cards too. Great hanging out with many friends old and new, I’ll post a picture of my pickups tomorrow. 10 out of 10 I’ll be back next year! Safe travels home everyone!
Lucky Larry (on Net 54)
Guru ( to the OBC Guys)

Were many dealers packing up early today?

[Brent G.]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

I was at the show from 9-1 not busy plenty of elbow room. I bought a few moe exhibit football cards (SPs) that I hadn’t seen all week. For me, the best table at the show, was 1/2 off everything today. I was buying clean 1957 and 1959 Topps football cards for $1. Huge bargains there all week. I had fun digging through these boxes all week. But a kind of “card fog” was setting in, and really tired of walking around. I ate liunch at one of the mobile food carts, walked through the corporate areas I’ve avoided all week, and I’m ready to go home. Uber to ORD 3 hours before my flight but I’m looking through my cards and glad to be sitting down. Lists I hit the most 1958 Hires Root Beer baseball b cards I bought 17 I think including the Aaron. 1964 Topps Stand Ups bought quite a few of these including a duplicate Mickey Mantle SGC slabbed A for color added was $275. 1963 Fleer football Lance Alworth RC without stripe on reverse closed out my master set. Bought many OPC hockey cards too. Great hanging out with many friends old and new, I’ll post a picture of my pickups tomorrow. 10 out of 10 I’ll be back next year! Safe travels home everyone!
Lucky Larry (on Net 54)
Guru ( to the OBC Guys)

My only regret was not planning to be there all day Sunday. I gotta think many of the people charging obscene prices since Wednesday came back down to Earth today.

[UKCardGuy]

Originally Posted by timber63401

Were many dealers packing up early today?

Yes there were. I noticed that from about 1pm it was really noticeable but plenty of dealers were open at 4pm.

I think i was at the same table as you Larry. Lots of OBV members were there and the YouTube brigade too. I picked up a bunch of 71 and 72 topps plus 71 Kelloggs and a 1954 Redman Willie Mays with tag for 1/2 price.

There were plenty of dealers asking double comps but also plenty of tables with fair prices. I noticed that the orices softened as we went through Saturday and into Sunday.

I also.collected my on site grading from PSA and dropped off some items with an AH for their fall catalog auction. Its my first time consigning, so fingers crossed.

I've got to say, PSAs setup, was well organised. Considering how busy they were, the staff were pretty meticulous about how they boxed up each submission.

I'm sitting in the airport now and happy to be sitting. It was a great, but frenetic 3 days.

[LuckyLarry]

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Glad you got some Dad's Cookies. While not rare, not valuable, shaped like a bookmark and have no NHL logos, there is something extremely attractive about that set to me.

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

Whoa!! Took me a moment to process that the table was round and it wasn't a fisheye lens optical illusion like this...

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Great pick-ups!!