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Nomad · 08-01-2024, 02:15 PM

Nope. I went for the bottom card for several reasons.

1) The whole reason a Flawless dual patch card is interesting is the GU patches. There are 51 total of these cards made (20+15+10+5+1) and for me, until you get to the most limited levels, what drives uniqueness is not the color of the foil around the patch, or the stamping, but the patch itself.

2) This patch is something to behold. I have gone over a lot of Celtics patches over course of the collecting odyssey and can point to maybe 5 where I felt that they were really well thought out.

Here you have (bottom) a dual-color stitch patch creating a nice outer border for the (top) inner middle triangle of the Nesmith "M", inverted and rotated 15 degrees so that it matches the bottom, even appearing to create an N.

#DP-ANS Silver 4/20

3) We have established that rainbows are not really my thing. What is my thing is pairing visually striking cards. Such as the dual-patch Flawless /20 with the stitching from the "N" where the two triangles converge (below). Along with the "M" triangle, a top 1 percent part of the jersey.

4) There are lots of patches taken from the "square" elements of the BOSTON and NESMITH nameplates (and number 26), as with the /10 gold. That is a well trod aesthetic. With the gold (below) the two panels have no real connection that I can see.

#DP-ANS Gold /10

To sum up, a top two percent (2/51) GU dual-patch is much rarer than a /10 gold. Having the key triangle stitching of the “N” and “M” is significant, and they work together well as a pair. In an ideal world, this “M” piece would have been in the gold and I could have worked toward a rainbow, but I would choose the lesser tier and better patch always. Just as many prefer a gold /10 to a red or green /5 for aesthetic reasons, or an NT /99 vert to an NT /49 vert for wonky reasons.

The cloth from which the patch is made (not my jersey).

08-01-2024, 02:15 PM	#111
Nomad Banned Join Date: Jul 2021 Location: Fomenting FOMO on the down low. Posts: 8,094	Nope. I went for the bottom card for several reasons. 1) The whole reason a Flawless dual patch card is interesting is the GU patches. There are 51 total of these cards made (20+15+10+5+1) and for me, until you get to the most limited levels, what drives uniqueness is not the color of the foil around the patch, or the stamping, but the patch itself. 2) This patch is something to behold. I have gone over a lot of Celtics patches over course of the collecting odyssey and can point to maybe 5 where I felt that they were really well thought out. Here you have (bottom) a dual-color stitch patch creating a nice outer border for the (top) inner middle triangle of the Nesmith "M", inverted and rotated 15 degrees so that it matches the bottom, even appearing to create an N. #DP-ANS Silver 4/20 3) We have established that rainbows are not really my thing. What is my thing is pairing visually striking cards. Such as the dual-patch Flawless /20 with the stitching from the "N" where the two triangles converge (below). Along with the "M" triangle, a top 1 percent part of the jersey. 4) There are lots of patches taken from the "square" elements of the BOSTON and NESMITH nameplates (and number 26), as with the /10 gold. That is a well trod aesthetic. With the gold (below) the two panels have no real connection that I can see. #DP-ANS Gold /10 To sum up, a top two percent (2/51) GU dual-patch is much rarer than a /10 gold. Having the key triangle stitching of the “N” and “M” is significant, and they work together well as a pair. In an ideal world, this “M” piece would have been in the gold and I could have worked toward a rainbow, but I would choose the lesser tier and better patch always. Just as many prefer a gold /10 to a red or green /5 for aesthetic reasons, or an NT /99 vert to an NT /49 vert for wonky reasons. The cloth from which the patch is made (not my jersey). Last edited by Nomad; 08-01-2024 at 04:17 PM.