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Jeff Scott
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Posted: 21 May 2018 at 11:05pm \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

YAY...I found Byrne's 1989 Card Set on eBay for $24.95. I did a search "1989 Best of Byrne" and found it. Prior to this I typed in "1989 Byrne card set" and a few other inquiries...strange I finally found it and the word "trading" or "card" was not in the description.

If anyone is interested the seller still has 1 set left. Seller has all positive feedback and the description states this...

"These cards are in like new condition, crisp and clean, with sharp corners and nice gloss.
Stored safely in a clear plastic hobby box since they were taken out of the wax packs recently."

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Bill Collins
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Posted: 22 May 2018 at 12:09am \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

Nathan, yes the rear images would be good framed!

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Posted: 22 May 2018 at 1:08am \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

Lars Sandmark wrote:

As a matter of fact I bought an uncut card sheet from this fellow just a couple months back. Excellent transaction, couldn't have gone better. I've got it in a Walmart frame and it's great looking.

How did you frame it without losing some of the image? Doesn't look "suitable for framing" as there's no room for a frame let alone a mat. Not questioning that you can't do it, just want to know how you did!

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Posted: 22 May 2018 at 1:15am \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

Ach. Doesn't matter. With the heat that's been generated by this thread, the seller only had a couple left so I bought one. I'll figure out how to frame it later!

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John Mariani
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Posted: 22 May 2018 at 5:55am \| IP Logged \| 5	post reply

I wonder if anyone apart from me remembers the DC set from the 60's which had a humourous slant. The format of the card was that it came in a tri-fold configuration. The middle bit had a superhero portrait; the left and right bits were cut in the middle so you could fold the sections over the superhero to make a humourous (or at least, hopefully humourous!) picture.

(Or by folding the top part of the left bit and the bottom bit of the right bit over, make a picture that didn't involve the superhero at all).

Oof! That was really hard to explain! Sorry if it isn't as clear as it should be!

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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 22 May 2018 at 7:05am \| IP Logged \| 6	post reply

I really went way off on something else and missed these Pirate and Civil War cards Mr. Byrne mentions. I'm thinking these might be the Pirate ones...

https://www.psacard.com/cardfacts/non-sports-cards/1948-leaf -pirate-cards/28118/

looking extremely cool, I wonder if they'll ever be reprinted? Cards about history is a lot better an idea than a lot of things they've make card series of.

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Nathan Greno
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Posted: 22 May 2018 at 11:03am \| IP Logged \| 7	post reply

Lars: Still don't have the individual cards, much less the box they came in, like Nathan!

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That's not mine -- I found a pic of the box online.

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Posted: 22 May 2018 at 11:08am \| IP Logged \| 8	post reply

I had that set of comic cover cards. Lots of very nice #1 art issues and first appearance covers if I remember correctly.

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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 22 May 2018 at 11:22am \| IP Logged \| 9	post reply

These early 1960s Pirates cards look like Kurt Schaffenberger did them to me...
http://www.trading-cards.org/Cards-N-R/Pirates-Bold.php
they have a lot of text on the backs too, definitely well done!

Here is a Civil War card, I think maybe these have been reprinted...

Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 22 May 2018 at 11:25am

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