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  • Flea Market Finds #54: Grab Bags and Busted Boxes

    When: Saturday, February 15th
    Where: Branham High School Flea Market
    What: Sports Card Grab Bags, Soccer Cards, and Non-Sports Cards
    How Much?: $10

    After a brief hiatus, I woke up last Saturday and decided it was time for me to get back out there and walk around a flea market. I took a few weeks off after being a little burnt out and dealing with a small cold. The Branham HS Flea Market was the perfect place to get my feet wet before diving back in full throttle, because it's pretty small with a high percentage of vendors who are cleaning out their closets.

    It took me less than an hour to walk around the seven or eight rows, but in that amount of time I discovered five people with trading cards. In the second to last row, I stumbled across a guy who had a few boxes of sports and non-sports cards sitting on his table. While sifting through his stuff, he proceeded to pull out three more storage boxes of cards from his truck.

    We started talking and he told me about his recent storage unit purchase that contained all of these cards. He really wanted me to take the whole collection off of his hands, but the last thing I need is thousands of cards from the Junk Wax Era, so I settled on these...

    Purchase #1: Sports Card Grab Bags$5



    I'm not sure if this was a great purchase or a terrible one. On one hand, I gonna have fun digging through these over the next couple of days. But from the looks of it, these bags are filled with overproduced 90's cardboard.


    Purchase #2: 1988 Topps Fright Flicks Opened Box$2



    The majority of his collection was forty to fifty wax boxes that had been busted and thrown back into the box. I grabbed two. The first one was this 80's non-sports box that features a bunch of horror movies like: A Nightmare on Elm Street and Poltergeist.

    I had a stack of these from another non-sports card purchase, so I hoped to make at least one set from the two lots. Unfortunately... I didn't. Anyone have any singles from this set laying around?


    Purchase #3: 1990-91 Pro Set England Opened Box$2



    I picked this box with one specific purpose... to finish my Pro Setsoccer set. One problem. I'm building the 1991-92 Pro Setsoccer set. Looks like I'll be building both now.


    Purchase #4: 1994 Upper Deck World Cup 'Toons Set$1



    After striking out on the first two boxes which left me with two incomplete sets, at least I walked away with one complete set. There were also a bunch of cool looking holograms that were inserts for this product. Guess what? Another incomplete set. I have sixteen of the twenty-four holograms, so I guess add another one to the list of sets I'm building.

    Okay... so maybe this wasn't my finest flea market outing, but you can't win them all. At least I'm motivated to get up and go out there again. And the timing couldn't be better. I have this week off and one of my favorite flea markets is the Capitol Flea Market on Thursday. It's the same one I usually go to on Sunday, but on Thursdays there seems to be better deals. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

    Happy Tuesday and sayonara!

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