Tooth Fairy

 I am always up for cool and unique cards.

One of the products that comes with a variety of cool and unique cards is Pieces Of The Past.

They have pieces of newspapers, relics, hair, coin and even teeth as relics in their products.

When someone on Twitter posted a picture of a tooth card, I wanted it.

So, I did what each great collector does, I low balled hard and actually acquired said card.

This is an authentic tooth of a Megalodon, part of a shark specie,  which went extinct over 3.6 million years ago. How cool is this?

Back of the card features many teeth swatches they acquired.

This has to be one of my favorite non-sport relic cards now. 

If only I could afford to add a hair swatch card now.

In comments today, let me know your thoughts on cards like this.

Hope everyone has a great Tuesday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

The Good, The Bad And The Fun

Coffee is ready and so am I, let's get a new post up!

THE GOOD:

For the second straight year, I am Fantasy Football champion of my league! I started out a little rough as you can see by my record, however, it's now how you start your season, it's how you finished. Adding some key free agents when injuries occurred was huge.

THE BAD:

 

A few days after Christmas, I went to get out of my car, slipped onto some ice, reacted to catch myself by reaching into the car with my right arm bent backwards and felt my arm get sore. I figured a guy that's 40 with a muscle strain would take a little while to heal so I didn't go to the doctors.

That's until the pain got worse over time.

So, yesterday I went and the Dr as well suspected a muscle strain but decided to send me to an Xray anyways just in case. Well, that Xray showed a fracture on the back of my shoulder the shape of a crescent. 

After seeing that, the doctor thought maybe when I fell, I dislocated my shoulder and it snapped into place tearing ligaments, muscles and breaking a bone in the process. He said it's rare, but can happen. When I hear rare, I want to think cards, not shoulder injuries.

Good times. Great way to start 2024. And always fun to move around with low mobility in your dominant arm.

Now I must see ortho, maybe PT and hopefully no surgery.

THE FUN:

At Christmas time, I had a mail day from long time Twitter follower and friend @DarkCards66 that included a ton of awesome cards from Pieces Of My Past. I know a lot of collectors don't value or care about the products they put out, but I think what they put out is pretty cool.

This mail day included a lot of handwritten or typed relics from some legends of the past.

 

To be honest, there are a lot of amazing ones, but this Beethoven really caught my eye.

Thanks to my buddy @DarkCards66 for the Christmas mail day. I hope you got yours as well and enjoyed it as much as I did mine.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

I am hoping they call me from Ortho today with an appointment date, so I know what I am doing going forward. Right now, it has been hard leaving the sling on and trying to drive and do household chores. I am not one to sit down and relax with so much going on in my life.

Hope everyone has a great Wednesday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

The (B)Wes(t) Of The Season

*sits down with a pile of cards, gets ready for a new Cards Over Coffee post*

Christmas time is always a magical time, but when you get a mail day from the greatest mail day senders of all time (GMDSOAT-not sure how you can pronounce that as GOAT) in Wes, it's like finding the gold at the of the rainbow with Santa handing it to you.

There is nothing like it and you never know what to expect. You may even find a magical unicorn. (well not a real unicorn but a rare card you never expected to find ever but I am sure Wes could find an actual unicorn as well)

I can never-ever show off everything he sent, or the blog would be filled for the year, so I choose bits and pieces and post them. The main ones from the mail day will be posted today, but plenty of others including Rodney Hamptons will be posted separately.

Let's get to the best of the best today.

*takes a sip*

I think I had talked to Wes about this card at one point and how I needed a Charles Oakley autograph for my Knicks PC. Now with Starks, Houston, and Oakley down, the one autograph I have left I want of the Knicks is the one of great Patrick Ewing.

Hmmm...a political figure covering their mouth up and not discussing the truth....

I really like these Pieces Of The Past relics. Not sure what documents they were cut from, but owing a piece of history is kind of cool.

 

These two cards fit perfectly in my unique relics PC. At one point I had considered chasing the entire Fragments Of The Farm set because I found the relics in that set to be superb!

 

This Topps 75th set had some really cool cards in it, both in base/parallels and its lengthy autograph checklist. Always like adding non sport autos when I can.

Cool Jeans swatch of a musician, yeah, I will take relics like that any day. If I had pant swatch cards, there may be some coffee stains on them. I have had a few spills during blogging and in general. My wife refuses to buy me white shirts now.

 

Christmas Sweater swag is what I am here for.

 

A swatch of the co-founder of one of the best all-time bands, bring it on.

Tommy Chong autograph. Growing up my father sat down and watched the Cheech and Chong movies with me. Not sure why but I found them funny, but I did. 

 

Jim never turned out to be a great QB but does have a really cool name. I collect the first relics of the 90's. I will take any of the players from any of the brands.

Thanks goes out to Wes as always for these cards and the plenty of others he sent.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

I am never sure how Wes does what he does. Every year he brings out his (B)Wes(T) of the season and outdoes the previous year. On my end, it's really hard to match what he sends but I try my best. I usually have to start at the beginning of the year to build up enough to send him.

One thing in life I have always learned, you can't beat the best. You can only try to keep up. This also goes for coffee and not just the hobby.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*