Some Past & Present Customs - When Wade Boggs Gets Involved, Things Get Interesting!

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I hope this is okay here, guys! There are some pre-war cards involved If not, please tell me and I'll remove the thread.

A while back, I was doing some spring cleaning, and ran across these gems - they are believed to be my first ever custom cards! How'd I do? Apparently 12 year old Tanner left 41 year old Tanner an Easter egg that I didn't notice until now. Check the copyright on the Sosa LOL



As the years progressed, I got a bit better, and found myself creating cards like crazy for my own collection. Eventually, people started commissioning me to do special pieces for their collections, and as gifts for others. I wanted to share a few here that I've done over the past few years, and the past few days, with a few stories on each!

Starting off with a custom wood Canseco booklet. I've never seen a wood booklet before, and wouldn't have thought about it, had a guy in Canada not stolen my single regular paper stock Canseco. I figured instead of just redoing it, I would really amp it up. The patch is from a jersey worn by Jose (of course!)



Speaking of wood, this next one is a custom I created a while back also. For YEARS, I've wanted a wooden triple threads patch card of Canseco for my collection. When they finally made a wood 1/1 of his, the relics were bat pieces. I *LOVE* that card, but I just had to do my own. Here it is! Note the logo that says "Tanner's Threads". I love doing goofy things to these cards



This next one was done for my brother in law who is writing a book about some of his relatives. One of them was "Big Jim" from the mid 1800s below, whos claim to fame was his height. My brother in law wanted a circus themed jumbo cut signature, so this is what I came up with!



Earlier this year, Jerid reached out to me with a handful of signed cards from his buddy's favorite players on the Royals...



He had me create this jumbo custom booklet for his buddy for his birthday!





Ossee's relative reached out to me with an authentic T206, and wanted me to create a jumbo custom with the card embedded in it. Here it is! (Don't hate me for the Yankees hat - it was just the closest one I had to grab for the day - Jose worn, of course!)



I'm MADLY in love with T206 cards, though I only have two in my collection (both are Cobb!) Paul Mifsud, the king of signed T206s reached out to me, and had me create these for him.

Triple T206 embedded / cut signature jumbo booklet of Hal Chase



Jumbo T206 embedded / cut signature of Ed Walsh



My favorite ... T206 embedded / cut signature of Walter Johnson.



A while back, someone sent me these pieces ...



and I created this Mantle custom booklet ...



Of course, it's no secret that aside from my Canseco cards, my favorites to do are "personal" art pieces, like the following ...

This booklet was created for the world famous Wade Boggs fanatic Robert Howell a few years back.



And this one was done for my good friend Jon!




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