Generosity. Pass it on.

One of the greatest attributes of this hobby is the generosity from fellow addicts. As the card shows and trade nights roll along, friendships develop. You start keeping an eagle eye out for not just stuff for your collection, but cool things for people you know as well.

I was the beneficiary of this at the last card show. Instead of rolling out my purchases, (you may still see some of it later) I thought I'd show off two gifts that were by far, the treasures of the day.

From fellow blogger, bamlinden, of My Hockey Card Obsession fame, presented me with these two beauties for my Lyle Odelein pc. Two media slides from the late 90's.

My scanner decided not to participate this evening, but you get the gist anyways. These are awesome. Not found on any checklist by any means, but a more than welcome addition to the binder. Plus I can now make as many 8x10's of Lyle as I want. World domination to follow I'm sure.

Next up was from one of the sellers that has been setting up recently. We'll call him Vintage guy here. We'll call him that because to him a new card is something from 1985.

Because of our common collections, we've done our share of conversing. During those he discovered, and remembered, my ongoing collection of Joe and Jimmy Watson.

He's getting ready to move across country for his retirement soon. During his packing, cleaning, etc... he came across some odd ball items from the 1976 Canada Cup. On Canada's roster was a very young 22 year old puck moving defenseman named.... Jimmy Watson. In his second year in the league, here he was on the grand stage. And Vintage Guy had original 8x10's and post cards of most of the players.

Boom.

I love it. And, like the Odelein slides, it's something I've never seen before. In person or online.
Perfect.

Just when I needed a hobby pick me up. Thanks guys.

a little cardboard house cleaning...

I'm in a bit of a rut. A posting rut. It's not that I'm not posting... I am. But it's usually about something recent. Problem is, I have a lot of cards sitting on my desk from upwards of two months ago waiting for their story to be told.

oops.

So I took a random pile and added all of their scans to this post. It'll be random, but it'll get one pile off of my desk and in their respective binders where they belong.

Take a look, you may see something you like.

The first three cards were bought for a quarter. Total. Together in a penny sleeve, just waiting to be purchased by yours truly.

These were inserted into OPC packs in '77/78. The set consisted of 22 cards. Wayne Cashman of the Bruins....
.... Reggie Leach of the Flyers...

... and Rick Martin of the Sabres. R.I.P. Rick.

moving along in the quarter box, I found a couple of cards for my Watson brother collection.

First, a smiling Joe, with his false teeth on display.

and then younger brother Jimmy. This has been a fun collection to build.

I grabbed this one for no other reason than the epic mask on Mr Pete Peeters. That's a beauty.

Hmmm..... I believe I traded for this on card auto of Canadiens face off and penalty kill specialist, Doug Jarvis. I don't remember what went the other way though....

no matter. It's a great card.

Back to buys, these next two were .50 cent cards. Check out the knee pads on Mr Harris here...

... at least I hope they're knee pads... yikes.

and a great shot of Les Binkley. Pretty good smile for a goalie who payed without a mask.

and I love those old sweaters. The Pens should bring those back in 2014/15. ( I hear rumours that they won't be wearing a third jersey next season)

Finally (thanks for sticking with me) is my pity purchase of the month.

I couldn't leave Steve trapped. Both in the card shop, and in this horrible case. So me, Steve, and this case have a date with my band saw in the very near future.

Steve deserves to be free.

Thanks for looking, and if anyone has any Joe or Jimmy Watson cards they don't need.....