Tristar S.F. Show (this weekend)

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Posted By: Mark

Any ideas whether this weekend's Tristar show in S.F. will have much in the way of vintage cards? Anyone going (besides me)?

http://www.tristarproductions.com/shows/SF904/index.htm

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Posted By: Aaron M.

Not going, but I would appreciate you writing how the show went when you're back. I live in Los Angeles and had been wondering if this one if worth traveling to.

Thanks!

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Posted By: Mark

Sure Aaron..I think this might be the same show that I attended last year at the Cow Palace - big show with mainly modern cards, a little vintage, but nearly all nongraded. I didn't buy anything except some Smurf cards for my lady.

Assuming that I can't tell real from fake, even in person, is there any reason to trust a dealer at a big show like this any more than a random ebay seller that his or her vintage cards are real and unaltered? For example, at the show last year a dealer had a stack of T204 cards but I really can't tell a reprint from a real one. There were no reputable grading companies there to check with either (I think mintgrading was there).

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Posted By: The Other One (Julie)

I have almost no money, but it's fun to look at a bunch of cards, anyway.


Mark Macrae will NOT be set up, but he will be there, and he's bringing me a teacher's "reward of merit" to a kid with a little baseball scene on it in color--and it's so cheap I can afford it, and it's from the '40s, '50s or '60s! (1800s, that is!)Sometimes when you are out of dough, you feel like throwing in the towel, and getting some dough for your collection for your kids...

Tri Star is typically short of vintage stuff, but if you look hard, you can usually find something you want. If you don't know the real from the phoney, LOOK AROUND AT A LOT OF STUFF. Next best thing to owning it.

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Posted By: Mark

Who's Mark M? I'm a Mark M! Julie, I am going Fri night only (to snatch up all the good cards..j/k)..please let me know if you're going then or if there are any dealers I should say hi to. If I can't find anything made before 1980 that my non-expert eyes knows is real I should at least make some friends.

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Posted By: The Other One (Julie)

at 10:00 A.M., and have to futz around the Asian Art Museum for 4 hours beforehand.

I'm 5'10' and getting pretty close to round, with nearly black hair where it isn't gray and dark skin, and I'll be by myself, wearing black pants and some sort of shirt--blue or white. AND CARRYING A BIG BRIGHT BLUE NOTEBOOK--cause I have to take it home somehow. (the kind you take notes in in a class).

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Posted By: jay behrens

Julie, no Brooklyn Dodger cap?

Jay

I like to sit outside, drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

............but I'll wear my little round Brooklyn Dodgers World Series Press Pin from 1955.

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Posted By: Mark

Julie, I'll be there on Fri (tomorrow), but not until 6pm or so - I will email you my cell number so hopefully we can meet up!

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Posted By: The other One (Julie)

Not the greatest condition, but a) what a sweater! and b) what a face! (They're both in the HOF--whatever THAT means!)

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Posted By: warshawlaw

You all must be thrilled that I haven't figured out how to post images and have spared you views of my boxing collection...

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Posted By: The Other One (Julie)

seen before. Should I take them away? I just bought them yesterday--thought they were the most interesting things I got--which may say something about the show.

I like boxing cards, myself. But I'll spare you mine.

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Posted By: Mark

I have not been to a ton of shows so Julie is in a better position to evaluate it, but the S.F. Tristar show had a fair amount of vintage material. There was some 19th century stuff. PSA, GAI, and Beckett were all there. Gary Engel, preeminent Japanese card dealer was even there which I enjoyed. Definitely a lot better show for vintage collector's than the Cow Palce show I attended in '03.

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Posted By: The Other One (Julie)

I also visited Gary Elgel, but GOD FORBID I should mention that.

There was SOME vintage stuff, but not a heap. On the whole, I'd say Mark Macrae's show was better.