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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #490 on: March 21, 2011, 06:47:30 PM »
thanks! it is kind of a thrill to know I've got them all now.

So what are you waiting for?  Paste 'em anyplace!!

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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #491 on: March 21, 2011, 06:49:52 PM »
I picked up a couple more non-repeat diecuts this week:





A little off-center but otherwise very nice cards!
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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #492 on: March 21, 2011, 06:52:05 PM »
Oh and I hate my stupid scanner.  It thinks that it is smart so it always crops the scan on the right-hand edge where it thinks the picture stops. 
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« Reply #493 on: March 22, 2011, 04:37:18 AM »
Oh and I hate my stupid scanner.  It thinks that it is smart so it always crops the scan on the right-hand edge where it thinks the picture stops. 

Mine does that, too.  I've found that putting a large brown envelope behind the cards gets the whole card scanned, but then I usually spend time to crop out the extra brown background.

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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #494 on: March 22, 2011, 05:47:58 AM »
Mine does that, too.  I've found that putting a large brown envelope behind the cards gets the whole card scanned, but then I usually spend time to crop out the extra brown background.

I have been using a piece of black construction paper behind my scans which I thought would work since the normal scanner background is white.  I will have to try using brown and see if that works.
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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #495 on: March 22, 2011, 05:52:54 AM »
Oh and I hate my stupid scanner.  It thinks that it is smart so it always crops the scan on the right-hand edge where it thinks the picture stops. 

Doesn't it show you a preview of what it will scan before it scans, so that you can drag the window to where you want it?  You can probably turn off the "smart-scan" feature as well, and then you would just have to crop each scan afterwords. 

I use a black background sheet for cards with white edges just to show contrast around the edges of the card.  It works pretty well.     
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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #496 on: May 15, 2011, 11:58:17 AM »
Added some more diecuts to my collection this week:



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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #497 on: May 15, 2011, 12:34:11 PM »
Nice!

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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #498 on: May 17, 2011, 03:18:51 PM »
Been a productive few weeks for me.  I won this Blunder shirt on ebay, not sure why it sold so cheaply.  It really is a strange bird as the copy right says "Topps Inc" instead of "Wacky Packages" like my other vintage shirts.  It does NOT say "L&H" like the seller's other shirt and Blunder wasn't in the L&H iron on run as far as I know.  Anyone have more info on this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=true&item=150598570211&si=dSWm9NOsdAraAlzhNx3kGt8uDPQ%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMERWX%3AACTPNL%3ALNLK%3AITM

I also scored #5 Chock full of nuts diecut and #43 Maddie Boy from the same seller so they obviously had access to cool run of diecuts.



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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #500 on: May 18, 2011, 03:22:24 PM »
This is a good deal on a test patch I believe:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1974-Wacky-Packages-SEW-ON-PATCH-embroidered-MRS-KLEAN-/400216799864?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d2ec7ba78
That is a good price, I would say it was an "ooops" buy it now by the seller, no?
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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #501 on: May 18, 2011, 03:51:36 PM »
That is a good price, I would say it was an "ooops" buy it now by the seller, no?
Yes - "one of those let me buy it now before someone let's the seller know" although I have not seen one for sale for a while and I don't know what the demand is. Happy to have it in my collection.

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« Reply #502 on: May 23, 2011, 08:43:50 PM »
Doesn't it show you a preview of what it will scan before it scans, so that you can drag the window to where you want it?  You can probably turn off the "smart-scan" feature as well, and then you would just have to crop each scan afterwords. 

I use a black background sheet for cards with white edges just to show contrast around the edges of the card.  It works pretty well.     
I came across some very interesting partial sheets.....series 13 whitebacks but they are very different than anything I have seen!  These are printed on like a plastic film and have a white backing.  I noticed the images were much more crisp than a normal sticker.  The edge stickers of these sheets are chopped up and the film pulled away so I tugged a bit more to try to take this pic.

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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #503 on: May 23, 2011, 09:01:27 PM »
I came across some very interesting partial sheets.....series 13 whitebacks but they are very different than anything I have seen!  These are printed on like a plastic film and have a white backing.  I noticed the images were much more crisp than a normal sticker.  The edge stickers of these sheets are chopped up and the film pulled away so I tugged a bit more to try to take this pic.



That does look sharp. Where did you find it?

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« Reply #504 on: May 24, 2011, 05:25:20 AM »
I came across some very interesting partial sheets.....series 13 whitebacks but they are very different than anything I have seen!  These are printed on like a plastic film and have a white backing.  I noticed the images were much more crisp than a normal sticker.  The edge stickers of these sheets are chopped up and the film pulled away so I tugged a bit more to try to take this pic.



I'm having trouble understanding it from the picture.  So the back is just a normal whiteback stock but the the substrate that the front is printed on is different?  Is the film covering the print or is the print on top of it?  Can you show a larger picture, like maybe straight down on the sheet?
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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #505 on: May 24, 2011, 06:23:35 AM »
This is a good deal on a test patch I believe:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1974-Wacky-Packages-SEW-ON-PATCH-embroidered-MRS-KLEAN-/400216799864?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d2ec7ba78

I got this one 'Grave Train' - (same seller as yours)looks like a Test patch as well...looks good...awhile back someone was selling these Test Patches in cellophane and they were going for $100+ - don't see the difference in the two...How are you sure these are Test Patches??

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« Reply #506 on: May 24, 2011, 07:33:56 AM »
I came across some very interesting partial sheets.....series 13 whitebacks but they are very different than anything I have seen!  These are printed on like a plastic film and have a white backing.  I noticed the images were much more crisp than a normal sticker.  The edge stickers of these sheets are chopped up and the film pulled away so I tugged a bit more to try to take this pic.



I don't understand your description of this either. Any possibility of a more elaborate description?

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« Reply #507 on: May 24, 2011, 08:17:51 AM »
I got this one 'Grave Train' - (same seller as yours)looks like a Test patch as well...looks good...awhile back someone was selling these Test Patches in cellophane and they were going for $100+ - don't see the difference in the two...How are you sure these are Test Patches??
The only way I knew the Mrs. Clean was a test patch is that it was not part of the "complete set of patches" that were available in the display boxes. From the Lost Wacky Site: "Mrs. Klean, Glutton, Weakies, Botch Tape, Plastered, Sicken of the Sea, and Paul Maul were only issued in the test sets".  The backing on the test patches is often a wax paper backing.

 

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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #508 on: May 24, 2011, 09:11:02 AM »
I don't understand your description of this either. Any possibility of a more elaborate description?

I wonder if it isn't some type of proof sheet. It's hard to tell from the picture but from that little snippet it looks pretty crisp and well preserved. Especially how white it is.

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« Reply #509 on: May 24, 2011, 09:41:09 AM »
I wonder if it isn't some type of proof sheet. It's hard to tell from the picture but from that little snippet it looks pretty crisp and well preserved. Especially how white it is.

And it doesn't look like it is scored either, which may be indicative of a proof sheet.
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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #510 on: May 24, 2011, 07:48:42 PM »
And it doesn't look like it is scored either, which may be indicative of a proof sheet.
It is not scored.  The sticker image is on the transparency material which is sticky and adhered to a white backing.  It almost seems like this is the final composition of all overlays combined and placed on white backing.  I had these sheets for a week before i even noticed they werent just white backed 13ths.  If i cut these into single stickers, one wouldnt know these are special unless they peeled the sticker and see this not finished sticker stock.  The whiteness around the sticker is the backing showing through the transparency, there is not white border to these regardless of the fact they arent scored.
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« Reply #511 on: May 24, 2011, 08:18:09 PM »
It is not scored.  The sticker image is on the transparency material which is sticky and adhered to a white backing.  It almost seems like this is the final composition of all overlays combined and placed on white backing.  I had these sheets for a week before i even noticed they werent just white backed 13ths.  If i cut these into single stickers, one wouldnt know these are special unless they peeled the sticker and see this not finished sticker stock.  The whiteness around the sticker is the backing showing through the transparency, there is not white border to these regardless of the fact they arent scored.

Sounds like something we haven't seen yet.  Are they in decent shape or kind of beat up?
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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #512 on: May 24, 2011, 08:27:52 PM »
Sounds like something we haven't seen yet.  Are they in decent shape or kind of beat up?
Each sheet has 30 full titles and cutoff titles around the edges.  5 titles impacted by a crease, the rest of the sheet is nearly flawless.  I have three such sheets.  No crease at all on one of the sheets.  Going to hit up Eric Roberts to see if he has seen anything like this since he has seen just about everything out there.
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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #513 on: May 25, 2011, 05:40:22 AM »
Without divulging anything you don't want to, how were they discovered? I love a good wacky pack story.

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« Reply #514 on: May 25, 2011, 03:32:30 PM »
Without divulging anything you don't want to, how were they discovered? I love a good wacky pack story.
Sorry no exciting story here, no misleading information about a vending machine that never existed....just boring me buying sheets from a dealer who had gotten these from a friend who he believes worked for Topps many years ago.  Unfortunately it is difficult for me to get more than a sentence response from the guy I got the sheets and he says he and his friend don't have any more Wacky package stuff.  I tend to believe him since he had dug out the 2nd and 3rd sheets after I asked if he had any more wackys.  Nothing else has surfaced.

I wonder if Topps had toyed with the idea of changing the sticker stock and these are not proof sheets at all.  They are coded exactly the same as the regular series 13 sheets, have no odd proof or color spectrum colors along the edge like many other proof sheets.  I wonder if this transparency sticker sheet didn't cut as well, maybe it was a cheaper option that didn't work out so they scratched it.
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« Reply #515 on: May 25, 2011, 06:39:31 PM »

Maybe you can bring one to the Fall Philly show so we can check it out?  I know it's a long way away but it would be nice to see it in person.
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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #516 on: May 29, 2011, 10:12:02 PM »
Here is a piece I picked up on Ebay a few weeks back. It's from the same guy I got the Lipoff art from. The guy had no idea about who drew it but I'm positive it was Art Spiegelman. Jay thinks so as well and is going to check in with Art. It's from Topps from the 1960s. We are trying to establish if this has a relation to Wackys. Here is what Jay wrote me:

The Art thing is likely from before they finalized how heavy a parody the Wackys would be.  Originally they intended to do actual products.  Art and Len Brown wanted to do parody products.  Likely Art came up with milder parodies (kind of like the stuff on the foldies) before getting into heavy MAD mag style parodies....and I'M KEEN might have been one of those.  We also did a series of little stickers where the kid gets a bunch of 'em on a card...and they say stuff about how great the kid is.  I think they were called Stick 'em Ups...or something like that.  This might be a rough for that series.  These were later released in the U.K. in the '80s..."Save the Whales....and win valuable prizes"  gags like that.

So it could be a proto rough image as they were developing Wackys or something for another series from that era. Either way it's a cool piece. Hopefully Art will remember what it is exactly.




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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #517 on: May 29, 2011, 11:35:13 PM »
Good eye and a cool score with some real history,,,to bad about the staples  :'(

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« Reply #518 on: May 31, 2011, 03:19:12 PM »
Maybe you can bring one to the Fall Philly show so we can check it out?  I know it's a long way away but it would be nice to see it in person.
If all of the if's fall into place, I will bring the sheets.  Some of the if's are: if I go, if I still own the stuff as I already have inquiries for me to sell them...
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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #521 on: June 06, 2011, 02:34:44 PM »
Any one ever seen one of these before:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=true&item=260792788555&si=cF8s9Pf%252BZ9fXXFbo1HLYz8hsZcQ%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT
I sniped it and made the seller like $60 cause if I didn't bid, the winner gets it for like $100.  I asked the seller why he refered to it as a mail away item since he had no evidence it was a mail away item and he said it was his best guess.  He seemed disinterested in correcting his auction listing.
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« Reply #522 on: June 06, 2011, 06:11:15 PM »
Any one ever seen one of these before:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=true&item=260792788555&si=cF8s9Pf%252BZ9fXXFbo1HLYz8hsZcQ%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT

WOW! I had completely forgotten about that hat. I remember them from when I was a kid. Some funky five and dime had them for several months and then I never saw them again. It would have been around 1976. Every time we went into this store i asked my mom for this hat. She always refused. I'm not sure why, as the hat could not have been more than 1.49. I will have to send her a link to this auction so she can see the investment opportunity she missed out on.
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« Reply #523 on: June 06, 2011, 06:37:11 PM »
WOW! I had completely forgotten about that hat. I remember them from when I was a kid. Some funky five and dime had them for several months and then I never saw them again. It would have been around 1976. Every time we went into this store i asked my mom for this hat. She always refused. I'm not sure why, as the hat could not have been more than 1.49. I will have to send her a link to this auction so she can see the investment opportunity she missed out on.

Thanks for all of the info. Never saw this before but it looked like it would be vintage!

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Re: This Week in Your Collection
« Reply #524 on: June 07, 2011, 03:30:56 AM »
Just so we can all see this again 6 months from now, here's the hat, and it sold for $158.05.

 

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