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Optic Project: Part 1

Optic Project: The Beginning and the Brady Holo I’ve always been a bit of a collector.  I like to complete the base sets because what is the point of spending all that money for one or two big “hits” and throwing away all of the other cards.  While being stuck and home and trying to catalog my entire card collection, I became very aware that I had some strong collections of base sets for Optic Football. Donruss Optic is my favorite set of the season.  I can get hobby boxes on the internet and retail cards at Target and Walmart so it’s easily available. The Optic technology makes for a great looking card.  It has a set size of 200 which makes collecting the base set something that’s doable.  100 base veterans, 50 base rookies, and 50 base Rated Rookies.  Along with the base cards there are many parallels, each more difficult to find.  Pink, Purple, Red & Yellow, Bronze, Aqua, Red, Blue, Purple, Green Gold.  Some are numbered from 299 all the way down to Gold Vinyl 1 of 1.  Some of them are ridiculous like White Sparkle, Green Velocity, and Black Pandora.  Any given card can have about […]

Chasing Rainbows

A complete “set” of all the different parallels of an individual card. That is the goal. I never thought I be chasing rainbows, but a couple of these I just fell into. And then the closer I got the more I liked the idea. The first one that I’m working on started by finding a couple cheap printing plates on Ebay. I’ve got alerts set up and hope to find all of the missing pieces to my rainbows. 2016 Phoenix Tyrod Taylor Collected: 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 (Red) 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 (Pink) 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 94/99 (Orange) 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 5/25 (Yellow) 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 1/1 (Magenta Printing Plate) 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 1/1 (Cyan Printing Plate) In Transit: 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 5/10 (Green) Missing: 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 1/1 (Blue) 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 1/1 (Black Printing Plate) 2016 Panini Phoenix Tyrod Taylor #11 1/1 (Yellow Printing Plate) 2015 Topps Triple Threads Jim Kelly Collected: 2015 Topps Triple Threads Jim Kelly #84 2015 Topps Triple Threads Jim Kelly #84 195/232 […]