Cardboard gifts from lots of people

When I came home from my short stay in Massachusetts, I was greeted with 9 packages of cards waiting for me! Some were trades, which I will detail in my March trade recap, but a pretty monumental one was included- my 100th documented trade on the Trading Card Database!

For today though I want to focus on the gifts that I received. This hobby is filled with some incredibly generous people, but that's no secret! The most surprising packages though, came from people in my other main hobby- scale model building.

The first package I had to open was from my friend Tom, who runs the world's largest scale model show, which is next month. I wasn't expecting anything from him but this was waiting for me in the mailer! It turns out he inherited them and knowing I collect cards, sent them to me! I was pretty shocked. The Mike Wagner is a nice mis-cut error as well, which is great!

The next package is from my friend Pat, who sort of collects cards but not to the degree I do. I think the only set he works on every year is the Tim Horton's Hockey set. I wasn't expecting anything from him, but the box was big and I could tell by the weight that it was going to be good. I was not wrong!

What do I see when I open it up but a factory sealed 1993 Maxx factory set! WOW! This is something I've been wanting for a long time- way back in 2015 I mentioned wanting this specific factory set and I had wanted it a long time before then. I was thrilled with this alone, but that wasn't all that was in the box...

Below the factory set was a box of mixed cards, with some NASCAR that turned out mostly to be duplicates (the Mark Martin shown, from 1995 Action, was new) and a huge stack of 1953-54 Topps World on Wheels! My favorite automotive set ever! I had a bunch of these to begin with, but I was able to add 16 to my collection from this group, including my first card of the Henry J and Cartercar brands!

I have not scanned any of them yet but I have an automotive themed post in the pipeline...probably a month or so away from it, which, knowing me, probably means I'll publish it in December, lol.

I was totally surprised by those two mailings, but there were a couple of mailings I was expecting as well.
BobFetta, on the Trading Card Database, offered to send me these 9 car cards just because. I put up a post on the BST section looking for car cards, and he had these. So he sent them to me!

I didn't have any from the 1991 Panini Dream Cars set previously!

The last package that I opened- that was a big one.

Shane of Shoebox Legends dumped another load of his unwanted/rejects on me, and I'm thrilled to have them! I cut off the left side row- which is one teambag lengthwise wide- oops! I only opened one team bag so far, but I already added several dozen new cards and 2 people to my NHL collection from it! I am not sure when I will get to sorting all these out- it may be a while- but I am truly grateful that Shane has chosen me to be the recipient of them. This is the second one of these large priority boxes Shane has sent me in the past few months, and I have been slacking on opening them and looking at the cards- I'm so backlogged. And that's a good thing!

Although I thanked him on Twitter, Gavin of Shoebox Legends also sent me a box that size back in January, which I don't recall if I mentioned in a post or not. I don't think I did because I didn't crop out the box flaps until writing this post. Sorry for the delay in getting it mentioned on the blog proper, Gavin!

(sorry for the stinky picture)

Since I'm doing a thank you post, just yesterday I got a package from SumoMenkoMan that I will delve into further in the future- but I will get a couple shots up here now.

 He sent me the entire Japanese National Team set he profiled in his most recent post!

And a whole bunch of packs, including those shown here. I have not a single card from two of these sets, and I have never opened a pack of the Pro Set NHRA release- though I do have a bunch of the cards from it. 1994 Press Pass NASCAR is a set that I have fond memories of. I got a bunch when new but am still 20 cards away from completion. Maybe I will get some of them in this pack? I don't know as I have not opened it yet.

One other pack- which I should have included in the photo but opened it before I could- was the Masters of the Universe set from Topps. For a very brief time in my life I was a huge fan of this show. But, then it got replaced by other things- mostly GI Joe- and I never watched the TV show or even looked at the action figures again. Still, I'm surprised I never got any of these cards before this. The cards feature screencaps from the cartoon with comic-style word bubbles on them. I still have the figures, locked away deep in storage.

Thank you to all of the people mentioned in the post! The gifts I received made up part of the largest card mailday I've ever had.