🔥 🔥 🔥 Complete or In-Progress Insert Set Showoff Thread 🔥 🔥 🔥

[TheFrenzy]

We've got the 90s/early 2000s Insert Showoff Thread! and it's fantastic.

But it's also narrowly focused on a specific time frame and mainly consists of individual cards.

I want to see completed sets (or sets in progress) of shiny and creative inserts. Who knows, maybe one of these insert sets will become the next PMG or Rubies that everyone will chase? Also, it could be a good way of letting people know which cards you need and you might get some leads.

To add a bit of uniformity to the thread, please size images to 1200 pixels wide. If you have trouble resizing images, just post them anyways and I'll post a resized version you can copy.

(Also, please do not be a squirrel and needlessly quote images.)

[TheFrenzy]

I'm going to go ahead and reserve a few slots here for the truly mind-blowing sets when they appear.

Hall of Fame post #1.

[TheFrenzy]

Hall of Fame post #2.

[TheFrenzy]

Hall of Fame post #3.

[jplarson]

2000 Playoff Absolute Leather & Laces. 130 card set serial numbered to /175 or /350. Some players appear twice. The ball is game dated on the back. I want to say they fell 1 or 2 per box but I can't remember. I have a handful of the Combos version too with a piece of lace.

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by jplarson

2000 Playoff Absolute Leather & Laces. 130 card set serial numbered to /175 or /350. Some players appear twice. The ball is game dated on the back. I want to say they fell 1 or 2 per box but I can't remember. I have a handful of the Combos version too with a piece of lace.

Nice! A great start.

[oldgoldy97]

Look at all those tiny balls!

Very nice

[jplarson]

If tiny baaauuhhhllllzzzz (read in the Honest Trailer voice) aren't your thing, here's a near complete set of on card ink:

1999 Upper Deck Retro Inkredible. One per lunchbox.

[oldgoldy97]

That’s awesome!

Plus only one Packer and no chump Lions

[jplarson]

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

That’s awesome!

Plus only one Packer and no chump Lions

ha! UD went hog wild with Vikings. Tarkenton, Culpepper, Carter, and Moss. It's not bad for 1999, excellent mix of past/present/future, but for a 30 card set the Vikings are featured a lot.

My final one for today. It's a small set but each one is numbered /10.

2015 Topps Finest Triple Autograph Patch:

[SleeperCards]

Originally Posted by jplarson

2000 Playoff Absolute Leather & Laces. 130 card set serial numbered to /175 or /350. Some players appear twice. The ball is game dated on the back. I want to say they fell 1 or 2 per box but I can't remember. I have a handful of the Combos version too with a piece of lace.

I have a couple of these Tim /20. This one was sitting on my desk so I thought I'd snap a pic.

[Grid]

Originally Posted by jplarson

ha! UD went hog wild with Vikings. Tarkenton, Culpepper, Carter, and Moss. It's not bad for 1999, excellent mix of past/present/future, but for a 30 card set the Vikings are featured a lot.

My final one for today. It's a small set but each one is numbered /10.

2015 Topps Finest Triple Autograph Patch:

Remember when Kevin White was going to be the next big thing? A stronger faster version of Calvin Johnson, with better hops! Cant miss prospect!

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by Grid

Remember when Kevin White was going to be the next big thing? A stronger faster version of Calvin Johnson, with better hops! Cant miss prospect!

He could have been the 2nd Best of All-Time!

[marinocollector]

1997 Upper Deck MVPs Gold /100

Never can not show this off.


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[jplarson]

Originally Posted by marinocollector

1997 Upper Deck MVPs Gold /100

Never can not show this off.


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I hope you never don't! Love that set all together, was it the hardest one for you to do in terms of sheer time spent from start to finish to complete?

[marinocollector]

Originally Posted by jplarson

I hope you never don't! Love that set all together, was it the hardest one for you to do in terms of sheer time spent from start to finish to complete?

When Marino was my main and only focus, it was the last insert card to have every insert card of his. I think it was 3 years of looking for just that one. Only one was on Burbank without a pic for $200 from 2005 until I found one in 2013. The Burbank one sold around 2009 I want to say.
I toyed with the idea of the set, around 2014. On comc there was a Marcus Allen for $21.25. Wouldn’t accept offers. I just had a feeling I’d regret it if I was to pursue the set.
I started breaking up my Marino collection in 2016, but couldn’t let go of the MVP Gold, so I decided to go for the set after I won a Favre at auction one drunk night. I also bought a Barry Sanders off eBay that day And scooped everything off comc, but the Marcus Allen was gone.
I eventually found everything but Aikman and Marcus Allen. The first Aikman I saw in 2020, and it ended on a best offer very quickly. It was 2 years before another was listed and I made a deal very quickly. It was pricey, but lower price and better condition than the one that just ended for $405.
Over the years, I bought doubles and upgraded my sets condition while making money too. Eventually I met someone who was also only missing Marcus Allen.
When one finally popped up I put a crazy bid in to finish the set. I won it for almost $500,which was almost $800 less than my high bid. My main reasoning of going so hard on it was because, with the gains in 90s inserts, the next time I see one these may have exploded more. The other was with my flips and everything directly involving the set, I owned 18 of the 20 cards for nothing, and what I paid for aikman and allen are what I owned the set for. So even if it was $1600 for those two, I was sitting pretty on the set.
So I guess the Marino was a long hunt for me. But the Aikman proved most elusive. And Marcus Allen took the longest to acquire due to my inability to commit. In stopping and thinking about this though, the Jerry Rice is one that doesn’t show often. I fortunately bought mine off a member on Beckett for $30 in 2017. I don’t recall seeing any at live auction.
Bledsoe and Alstott and Bettis all trip people up on this set as well. Pretty sure Eddie George’s growing popularity will make this a key item over time.

[hairysasquatch]

The NFC North out-in-the-cold gang trying to score cheap points in an insert thread.

How unbecoming.

[jplarson]

Originally Posted by marinocollector

I toyed with the idea of the set, around 2014. On comc there was a Marcus Allen for $21.25. Wouldn’t accept offers. I just had a feeling I’d regret it if I was to pursue the set....

Excellent story, thank you for sharing. Love to read about the chase and the final card completing the collection!

Here's another insert set of sorts. They were mail order items. 1995 Topps Landmark Series of Finest Heavyweights "cards". Made out of 4 oz of bronze. Took me a while to piece together the whole set and I had to work through some database issues with Beckett and TCDB to get the right checklist. I have a ton of related paperwork, ads, brochures, invoices, etc which made this all the more interesting. Anything oddball like that for Topps Finest I jump on whenever I can.

[marinocollector]

I want one of those Landmark sets so badly. Just always cheap out when one pops up.

Off to ebay I go!

[jplarson]

Originally Posted by marinocollector

I want one of those Landmark sets so badly. Just always cheap out when one pops up.

Off to ebay I go!

If you wind up with some invoices or 2-card black cardboard holders you don't intend on keeping, let me know. I'd be a buyer!

I could use 2 more two-card cardboard cases and for invoices I only have #205 Elway/Favre and #206 Marino/Irvin.

[Jephthah]

Originally Posted by jplarson

If tiny baaauuhhhllllzzzz (read in the Honest Trailer voice) aren't your thing, here's a near complete set of on card ink:

1999 Upper Deck Retro Inkredible. One per lunchbox.

I completed this set last year and understand your pain. The Ricky Williams was the final, and easily most difficult to find, piece to the puzzle.

[Dallas Cowboys]

I think I’ve posted this on the forum before but I love
showing it off. 1991 Wild Card NFL Dallas Cowboys Master Team set.

[Jephthah]

This thread is destined to become one of my all time favorite. I was a major insert set builder back in the day but have sold off the majority of them over the past year. I still have most of the Playoff Quad sets from 1995-2000 (I'll post a couple later), and several auto sets that I will dip into as well.

There are some great things up here already. I never get tired of seeing marinocollector's MVP Gold set. AMAZING!! And jplarson...the Inkredible set...we think alike as I also have that one.

I don't know that I ever set out to build any particular set. If something came my way through lot purchases or pack pulls, I would simply pursue what I had the most of at the time. I would love to say it was my keen eye and laser focus but I have never been great in those departments when it comes to this hobby.

Moving on. My first offering is the 1998 SP Authentic Player's Ink Green and Silver. Other than the Silver Moss, I don't recall ever seeing a Silver auto of Enis, Nash, or Leaf. As for the Golds...out of the question.

[marinocollector]

A thread to another thread:
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1551862

[jplarson]

Originally Posted by Jephthah

Moving on. My first offering is the 1998 SP Authentic Player's Ink Green and Silver. Other than the Silver Moss, I don't recall ever seeing a Silver auto of Enis, Nash, or Leaf. As for the Golds...out of the question.

Dee-loysh*!

*like delicious but said like deloycious but without the ious sound.

Originally Posted by marinocollector

A thread to another thread:
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1551862

A most excellent reference indeed!