Tag: rare cards
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After 14 Years, This Side Collection is 100% Complete!
Way back in 2010, I was introduced to online card forums for the first time. These forums allowed me to interact with other like-minded collectors and have access to a larger network of card collectors to trade and deal cards with, which as a teenager in high school, was truly an amazing thing. I’m not…
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My Most Wanted Jhonas Enroth Cards
When I was younger, I loved the game Need For Speed: Most Wanted. I logged many hours on my Playstation 2 playing that game. Aside from the cool police chases and custom cars, there was something about hunting down rival drivers and collecting their cars that I really enjoyed. Pink slips aside and racing aside,…
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The ‘Golden Whale’ Found After a Decade-Long Hunt
After chasing this card for over 10 years, the chase finally comes to an end… The 2014-15 Upper Deck MVP Gold Script /100 is now in my collection! To call this card one of my white whales is an understatement, so I have cleverly dubbed it the ‘golden whale’. I first heard of this card come up…
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An Autographed Fair Play & Respekt Swedish Playing Card!
Fair Play & Respekt Swedish Playing Cards – Front and Back Images I was lucky enough to add this cool signed playing card into the Enroth collection to start the month. For those who aren’t aware, this newer Swedish playing card set was created as a follow-up set to the 2006 Fair Play & Respekt set.…
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The Story Behind the 2023-24 Örebro HK SHL Team Issued Cards
I little while ago, I was made aware of a special set of team issued Orebro HK (SHL) cards that I was previously unaware of. As of this month, I was fortunate enough to land one for my collection and I decided to do some digging to uncover the origin of these cards. During the…
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Another Vezina Memorabilia card from Solid Gold! Uncovering hockey history!
2022 President’s Choice Solid Gold – Vezina Trophy Winners: Marc-Andre Fleury & Georges Vezina, numbered 3/6. Greeting fellow collectors, As 2023 draws to a close, I wanted to share a particular card I added to my collection very recently that wouldn’t have been possible without some good friends in the hobby.
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Reeling in a White Whale from 2009-10 The Cup!
2023 has been awesome for the Enroth card collection. As luck would have it, and as this year draws to a close, another important card has finally made it’s way into my collection. This coming on the tail end of a search that spanned over a decade long…
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Upper Deck O-Pee-Cher Artist Proofs: Another Mystery To Solve…
Just wanted to update you all today with 3 new cards for the collection. All of them are Artist Proof cards from the 2009-10 Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Premier product, released in 2010. I had seen old eBay listings for some of these cards over 10+ years ago, but never did I ever think more than one…
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Fair Play & Respekt Swedish Playing Card Set
This 52-card set of Swedish playing cards was developed by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association.I’m no poker expert, but this deck of cards has me wanting to step up my game. This ‘Fair Play & Respekt’ 52-card Playing Card set was developed by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association (Svenska Ishockeyförbundet) through the youth academy. It…
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Team Issued Card Holds Unique Origins from Södertälje, Sweden
2007-2008 ICA/AXA Södertälje SK Oversized Swedish Team Issued Card It’s not every day that you find a new card that you didn’t know existed, but that is exactly what happened a few weeks ago when a notification about a new card listing popped up on my phone. After peering into my notifications, I immediately knew I…
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