Chris and I were bored this morning and decided that after we ate some lunch, we would take a ride out to Kinston and check out a card shop we had heard about. The shop is located in Vernon Park Mall in Kinston, which is about 30 minutes away from our house. I didn't go there with any expectations as I have driven around to check out card shops in the past only to find that they either had closed down or didn't have much of anything to offer. I remember when I came out here to Greenville 3 years ago, I was happy to see that an actual card shop was in town and was a great place to get most of what I needed. The only drawback about the Greenville shop is that the shop owner has pretty much sold out of his vintage stuff.
The Kinston shop we went to today is a candy store/card shop. Interesting combination. They had plenty of supplies as well as a nice assortment of all kinds of cards. I took my time looking through the boxes they had set up and found a few things for myself and a couple cards for Chris. They also had a nice selection of vintage Topps from 1955 to 1970.
I found the above Pineda/Britton dual relic in a 3/$10.00 box. Since I didn't get 3 cards out of it, it ended up costing me $4.00, which still wasn't bad. They had a lot of Team USA relics which I know a certain blogger would like. I also found a nice vintage Yankee card for my buddy Drew. I just wish there was a nice vintage Red Sox card for Scott.
They had a box of $0.50 stars, and I was fairly sure I didn't have this Cal Ripken. I went ahead and picked it up.
Chris and I also bought 90s junk wax, he got a pack of 1991 Leaf for $0.50 and I got a pack of 1994 Studio for $1.00. The Barry Larkin and Frank Thomas cards pictured are trade bait if anyone would like them.
In all, I was very satisfied with the shop. The shopkeeper was a really nice guy who was patient with Chris and I as we searched his boxes. Chris was able to come away with two Tim Lincecums that he didn't already have. I also bought him a new baseball card album and a box of 100 sheets. He and I are going to take his Lincecum cards and are going to put all of them together in one album.
2 comments:
I actually have that same Pineda, Britton. Great card one of my favorite looking relic cards from the past few years.
Thanks for looking man!! Appreciate it! He had that card for 4 bucks?!?!? Awesome!!!! I would have picked up a ton of relics at that price!!! I'm not a huge fan of the USA relics but I love all the other memorabilia cards! Thanks for looking again! And nice cards!!!!!
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