Panini had some great stuff. Classic Signatures was a nice set, and the Private Signings (inserted in various sets) had such a clean design and it was unique having the SP variants. Some of the SPs and SSPs sold extremely. Haven’t looked them up in a while but I imagine some still sell quite well.
Ice /99s I feel are criminally underrated by people. They’re the only true rookie that’s acetate and such insanely hard pulls. UD should have kept making Ice over SPGU and SPx in recent years.
Private signings are such a massive set overall. The closest set to them is Franchise History Autographs. I’m missing 4 or 5 (including the triple auto) to have all the Islanders to date.
They will most likely push hard for an exclusive once he’s drafted. They are already working with him for CHL licensed cards. And there’s always the possibility that Leaf comes over the top and tries to sign him to an exclusive deal which would be a disaster for UD products. They’ve done it before albeit with lesser names. Hischier being one example.
This was another fun set to complete. The names in it as well are solid too:
2012-13 ITG Draft Prospects Autographs - Google Drive
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I had a huge gap from like 2003 to 2009 where I just didn’t pay attention. Talk about rough years to miss out on. All those early 00s ITG sets were amazing. The relics were all legit game used pieces and the artwork was spot on.
Yeah those itg sets were legitimately sickening.
I never understood why ITG never had more traction? I never realized until recently that the man responsible is still involved but producing 1 of 1 cards and such. I was actually talking to him not long ago because I have some autographs I thought he might like to have for cards (Hap Day, King Clancy, Ballard, Howe and a whole slew of others).
Your talking to the choir man.
I was actually surprised that UD had no interest at all in guys like Hap Day, King Clancy etc. I wasn’t even looking to sell them, just thought it deserved its reverence like being on someone’s cherished card versus in my box upon box of memorabilia. Was literally offering to give it to UD but no interest. Not THAT surprised in that I don’t have much respect for UD to begin with. The other individual was interested (also doesn’t surprise me…..you can tell who has actual reverence for the game). Heck I even have the HHOF interested in some of my stuff…..not UD though. Lol
Oh and funnily enough, my favourite most recent find was in some recent repackaged Walmart packs. They were like maybe $10 and I bought 3. Pulled 2 cards from a set I had never heard of which upon research were made by the same ITG guy but the set was never released . A Woody Dumart and Sid Abel autographed pre parkie! Gold to me versus any modern card.
Those were before my time. I’m 34 so I may have been young when that came out. I just like how they used true game used stuff over the event worn junk Panini and Upper Deck we’re pushing in recent years.
Very good points, I guess I'm just speaking on behalf of people who are looking to invest. I'm a lot older than you so my heroes were Lafleur and Dryden. But TBH, buy a regular PSA 10 Kaprizov for a couple hundred bucks and take the rest of the $3000 and invest in Vintage, you'll thank me in 10-20 years.
PSA or BGS for me. I dont even consider other grading options.
Are you looking to resell or just strictly slabbing for your collection?
Value bulk is $19 usd right now- their turnaround on the website says 65 days. My last few orders have arrived quicker than that. When it was 3-6 months......... or 1 year+ I can understand using an alternative (I started to use SGC)- but at ~50 days it's a no brainer.
