Just sort of realized that I never got around to posting my pickup for the $10 Challenge that Chris Olds of the Beckett Blog posted last week. I only utilized five of the $10 to buy this collection of Thurman Munson postcards that has been taunting me since I first started going to my LCS a few years ago:
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I finally pulled the trigger on them and I think they are pretty nice. Some of the paintings are better than others but I'm glad I bought them. And by the way, my card shop had the same Hank Aaron card that Chris highlighted in his post for $20 while he was able to pick up a copy for $5.50. Nice job Chris!
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Here are each of the 12 post cards in the collection. The reverse says they are limited to 5,000 sets.
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And here's the back:
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I finally pulled the trigger on them and I think they are pretty nice. Some of the paintings are better than others but I'm glad I bought them. And by the way, my card shop had the same Hank Aaron card that Chris highlighted in his post for $20 while he was able to pick up a copy for $5.50. Nice job Chris!
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Here are each of the 12 post cards in the collection. The reverse says they are limited to 5,000 sets.
1/12
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And here's the back:
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2/12
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3/12
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4/12
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5/12
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6/12
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7/12
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8/12
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9/12
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10/12
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11/12
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12/12
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