1997 Part 2

For those who read this blog and not my other. I have been amiss this week as my mother passed away. Her memorial is just hours away and I can not sleep. I tried reading all the blogs that I follow to see if that would help, but it hasn't. I figure lets accomplish something, so here is the second installment of the John Elway 1997 cards that I own.

Three minis.

Pro Flick 1 and 2 above aren't really cards, but as I said "if they'll fit into a toploader."

Parallels.

NICE!

Pacifics' creative team was definitely on there A game in 97.

More parallels.

For someone who doesn't care too much for the over use of foil, I must say those top two are pretty sweet looking cards.

That's a wrap.

1997

Before we begin the showing of the John Elway cards I own from 1997 we will start with some numbers.

According to Beckett which varies quite a bit from what I have in my master list they show a total of 570 "items" for John Elway, by my count I show 593 where Beckett doesn't list 23 of the cards from Pinnacle that year.  This might be due to the flagship Pinnacle having 24 printing plates. Either way they both need a little tweeking. What is for certain is that I do have 224 cards of whatever the correct number is.

There are 13 cards from Absolute, I have the two above only. Action Packed released 7 cards of Elway of which I have 6.

Although the are produced by Pinnacle, these are not included in the count for Pinnacle, just Action Packed.  Some really nice inserts in the first 8 cards.

Bowman's Best released 20 cards, I have these four.

Collectors Edge released 3 sets. Extreme, Masters, and Excalibur totaling 31 cards of which I own 9. the Excalibur cards will appear later after the Donruss.

We having a showing of a game used ball relic.

I must say that Pro Bowl card is pretty cool.

A very nice foursome. The Upper right card is actually 2 cards a & b, large and small. The Upper left has a Diamond Kings look to it (if you are into baseball cards), and I like it a whole bunch! Zoning is a super sharp card, and the EX-2000 isn't bad  for a base card either.

At first glance one might assume the upper two cards are identical, but they are not. Elite had 3 cards in its release. I do NOT have the base version of the above card (it is silver). Both of the cards above are Gold Series and limited to 2000 and serial numbered as such on the backs. One is the Promo numbered PROMO/2000, and the other is #d 238/2000 as the actual parallel.
As promised, the Excalibur cards.

Finest has 11 cards in the release and I have 6 of them.

Fleer flagship had 7 cards of which I have the 3 above.


That's it for today. Hope you enjoyed.

The Final pages from 1996

We are closing out the 96s today. Scans 41-51.

Four nice cards from Summit.

Three more from Summit.

That Hobby Masters card is really super sweet. Scan doesn't do the card justice.

Some shiny cards from Topps Chrome.

I'm not a huge fan of the over-use of foil on cards, but I think the tribute to 40K yards would have been better with in foil or at least in a colored text, so that it stands out.

The Predictor is the best card of these four by far.

A rainbow, including the rainbow parallel. Which was the hardest to obtain.

Upper right card really shows the action, makes you want to get out and go play some backyard football. Also shows John doing what he done very well, scramble.

That completes the scanned cards I own of Elway from 1996. 

Leading off with some OOPSs.

I wanted to throw out a few cards that were laying in the wrong box and thus should have already been shown.

Stanford pocket schedule.

JUMBO!

Phone card and another JUMBO!

Sorry we missed these cards in their proper year.

1996 Elway Collection continues. HINT and a contest NOTE

We are up to scans 31-40. Thus far the 1996 cards especially those first 20 scans were some of the most creative and not so much overdone in terms of too much that we have seen. Rest assured though by the time we make our way through to 2014 there will be many more contenders. Why is that important. I think that I will hold a contest. being that this run of posts is going to take quite awhile to get through, anyone following and on the very last post which will be stated as the last one of this long running series, I will ask which card do you think was the best overall? (leave in the comments, once a card is picked it is off the market so to speak) I will then decide who I agree with and they will get a surprise package of Elway cards from me. Just to make it a bit exciting, if I still have double of the card picked I will be putting it in there too!  Enough of that tease for now as we are no wheres close to the end game. So let's look at some cards.

A very much football like card. Good job Score!

That Prime Cut is super awesome.

Great parallels! Select certified was totally on their A game in 1996.

I put a sticky on the top right card as it is different from one in my doubles box. I have to see if I still have that one to figure out what the differences are. Fingers crossed.

I like the upper right, and of course if yopu have to have a "Ruby" parallel.

The top card comes real close to too much, but stays just short of it. The other two die cuts are cool, especially the gold, lol. SP and SPx are high end for a reason.

They use premium card stock, photography is usually spot on, and design is pretty much great. They do tend to use too many holo-graphics.

Many are Stadium club fans, I for one am not. They were back in the day Topps' high end set. I will say that TSC definitely had some good photography especially action shots.

Look we made it to Topps, lol. That is a wrap for today. There is one last post for the 1996 card run.