What's new in your collection?

How about an ongoing thread to highlight the new additions to your collection?

Whether it's a through-the-mail freebie or a big buck acquisition... it's all good. Show us what you got!

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Permalink Reply by CEE GEE on March 14, 2014 at 3:34am

fantastic pieces dude

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Permalink Reply by Null on March 14, 2014 at 8:30am

NICE! I was a Cubby fan for a long time, Ryno is also one of my favs of all-time.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on March 13, 2014 at 9:11pm

Got two cool pieces recently;

Another Jeter ball:

Current "Holy Grail" of my hockey collection, a game used Gretzky stick:

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Permalink Reply by Dane on March 16, 2014 at 3:19am

How do you know it's game used? Did you photo match it? From that particular angle, it doesn't look used, since there aren't any marks on the blade...

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on March 16, 2014 at 6:34am

Had a few experts tell me it's game used and there are markings along the shaft. There are a few nicks on the blade that show game use as well.

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Permalink Reply by Dane on March 17, 2014 at 4:48pm

It must be nice to have access to experts to show the item to in person rather than having to rely upon people online looking at pictures trying to guess at use. :)

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on March 17, 2014 at 5:47pm

Yeah :P

I had a friend who is familiar with game used sticks look at it in person and he said its good after I bought it. Also had a hockey game used expert look at it over photos I sent him (of use, the date stamps, name stamp, flex stamp, gripper, etc) and he told me it was good. Finally, had the owner of the world's largest private (and probably in general) Gretzky collection look at the stick through photos and he gave me the thumbs up.

I'm honestly surprised at the extent to which people helped me out. I sent out e-mails and literally had responses within five minutes which turned into long conversations.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on March 16, 2014 at 6:35am

As for photo matching, it's nearly impossible with Gretzky sticks.

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Permalink Reply by Maximiliano Sosa on March 17, 2014 at 10:40am

the only new thing in my collection is not an autograph, is jut a new sharpie to get autographs jajaj. Metallica will play here in argentina 29 and 30 of this month. maybe I can get an autograph (complicated). I think that they will arrive the day before and make the soundcheck that night. Only posibilities watching the calendar. and I wanna get some football players autograph.