Helmar Cards

[mrmopar]

Ken,

I think we traded some on The Bench years back. I chased them early on, but they just kept coming up with different cards and I kept getting too many duplicates in the larger lots I was buying (didn't want to pay for singles at $3 a pop for S/H. other interests soon directed me away from them, but I still have them all. If you need any early cards, I still have a fair number of dupes.

[porkchops]

Originally Posted by mrmopar

Ken,

I think we traded some on The Bench years back. I chased them early on, but they just kept coming up with different cards and I kept getting too many duplicates in the larger lots I was buying (didn't want to pay for singles at $3 a pop for S/H. other interests soon directed me away from them, but I still have them all. If you need any early cards, I still have a fair number of dupes.

Hi Curt ,
These Helmar's are a whole new thing stated in 2012(I think)
http://www.ebay.com/sch/sirraffles/m...p2047675.l2562
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I think they're one of the best ideas to come to the hobby in a long time !
Ken

[tonyo]

I really like the way they look and always enjoy scrolling thru their offerings when I run across them on eBay .

I've had several of them on my watch list over the last couple of years but the price normally sails past my limit. I have a stigma about wanting my cards to have been issued during the player's playing days.

I suspect that if I ever actually win a Helmar art card , I will probably want more!

[mrmopar]

I did see those a while back. They are great looking cards, but given what they are, they seem to sell for more than I'd want to pay. I suppose if I collected art, I might think differently. It's like all the ACEO & custom cards that have popped up in recent years. Sure, they are unique, but endless possibilities and levels of quality exist or could exist and that is the part I don't care for. Anyone with a decent amount of talent can make as many up as they want and as long as there is competition of at least 2 bidders, they get what they want for them or sometimes much, much more. I bought a couple Garvey cards before realizing that me and maybe one other person in the world cared enough to spend more than a couple of bucks on any of them. We bid the first 4-5 up to $20-30+ each. Now that other guy can have them all with no competition from me.