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Monday, March 20, 2017

A Blue Transcendent Monday

March is always a huge pain in the butt for me.  Historically I blog less, comment less, and trade less due to work responsibilities. While I planned ahead more this year by scanning some cards in bulk, my cardboard time is severely lacking. Thankfully by Thursday it will be smooth sailing and I'll celebrate by watching my Mountaineers play in the Sweet 16. 

New purchases have been lacking minus one huge WVU acquisition that I'll eventually showoff in the coming weeks. Baseball wise this has been the cream of the crop lately....

2016 Topps Chrome Transcendent 65th Party Starling Marte 1/1

I'm sure most of you heard all the hoopla surrounding the Topps Transcendent set. The whole 25k box of cards that included an invitation to a private party in which Kris Bryant attended.  At the party cards were given out to each participant.  Of course like anything card related many ended up on eBay. These special stamped 1/1's were about the only thing you could find a halfway decent deal on. 

This Marte sold for around $20.  I actually kind of regretted the purchase after I made it, but at least the card has a decent story and utilized the blue chrome card. This will probably be it for me with these stamped Transcendent cards.  One taste of how the other half live was enough....

Thanks for reading! 

9 comments:

  1. I'm just over here waiting on the big WVU pickup!

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  2. Regret or not..it's a cool looking card

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    1. Yeah, I'm just a little out of my comfort zone with cards like that.

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  3. I agree with Oscar. And, like you said, it does have a cool story to it.

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  4. I bought two boxes of Transcendent. (lies)

    Good luck to WVU!

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    1. I always knew you were a high volume case buster.

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  5. These 1/1s get me every time. I'm starting to think that Topps is still producing cards for that party. I just snagged another McCutchen from the party.

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