Topps Heritage is Awesome!

I was looking at some of my non Cutch cards the other day as I try to organize my collection better.  I realized that I should pick up some more Pirates Heritage cards (especially the certified autographs of the players from the 50s and 60s).

I haven't been buying much in terms of cards recently, but there was an eBay promo a few days ago for 15% off a purchase of $25 or more.

I used the code to grab an awesome addition to the Pirates and Cutch Heritage collection.  Expect me to show it off sometime next week when it arrives.

Until that card shows up, here is an awesome box topper relic I have that I completely forgot I owned.

This oversized extremely rare, hand numbered, box topper features a very boring grey swatch.  I haven't seen one of these pop up for nearly 2 years. 

The 2013 card highlights Cutch's multi homer efforts in consecutive days.

Another Cutch22 for the PC

Much like Gavin enjoys his Christmas cards (12/25) I actually enjoy those 22/xx cards of Andrew McCutchen.

This is a card I picked up a few months ago.

Nothing too special, just your average plain grey swatch.

Oh and the back talks about Spider-Man.

By the way.....


How sweet was the Avengers movie?
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Another plain grey swatch

Something that I really hate about getting jersey relics is when they're a plain grey swatch.

Take this card for example.

It's from a high end set (National Treasures
It's low numbered (only 22 copies produced)

On the back it talks about his Homer in the All Star game.

Cards like this should have patches or at least piping from a jersey.

Isn't it Iconic, don't you think?

This may surprise some of you, but I love making puns.  I do it all day at work.  A lot of times my Blog Post Titles tend to be a play on words as well.

I was born in the 80s so when angry Alanis Morisette made her hit single Ironic on the 1995 Jagged Little Pill album I was just hitting my peek teen years.  While I was still getting over the death of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, I couldn't turn my head away from all the 90s version of emo girls that listened to Alanis' album.

And I went through all that blabbering because as I saw this EXTREMELY rare Diamond Icon /10 being added to my collection I broke out into some Ironic but called it Iconic.

The irony of the whole thing is that the card is a Diamond Icon numbered to only 10 copies in the world.  Boxes sell regularly in the $1,000 range.  And yet here's Topps giving us collectors a really nice Plain Grey Swatch on a very boring and bland card design.

The front of the card doesn't bother me as the jersey swatch, albeit a plain road grey swatch, actually matches the uniform on the card.

The back though, there is nothing iconic about it.

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?