An Amazing PWE from Douglas

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I received a really great PWE last week from Douglas of Sportscards from the Dollar Store.  There were five cards in the envelope accompanying the awesome Score Shawn Thornton that I showed yesterday, here are the rest...

Kicking things off is this shiny Ron Francis from the 2012-13 Certified set, specifically the Immortals subset.  This card is numbered to 999, and unlike a lot of shiny cards actually scanned fairly well.  I swear Douglas has contributed more modern Whalers cards to my collection than I have myself.

Here's a unique Bobby Orr from the 2010-11 National Hockey Card Day giveaway by Upper Deck.  This is my first card from this small set, although just before Bobby on the checklist is a Gordie Howe where he's pictured with the Whalers that I'd love to track down sometime.

There was one baseball card in the package, this 2013 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects insert.  Both of these guys were recently drafted at just 18 years old, and were signed by the Sox only this past summer.  This represents my 2,659th unique Red Sox card.

I got my very first look at this year's O-Pee-Chee set courtesy of this PWE.  I like the design enough I guess.  Cool to get a new Chara card in the mail just days before he participated in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

There was one card in the package that blew me away.  It's a card I've literally, no exaggeration, been searching out for years now!

This beauty is one of the last two cards I needed to complete the 600-card retro parallel set from 2008-09 O-Pee-Chee.  This project has been close to six years in the making and I'm so close to the finish line now I can taste it.  Over time these cards have really dried up and become difficult for me to find.  I've literally had a saved eBay search for this exact card for probably 2+ years now with nothing, and Douglas managed to track down a copy.  Unbelievable, I probably appreciate this common card of Milan Jurcina more than anyone else on planet Earth.  If anyone out there finds a copy of card #368 (Gilbert Brule) please shout!  I would love to knock this set out finally in 2014.

Douglas, thank you once again for an awesome batch of cardboard.  I've got a stack built for you that includes a couple of 2014 Topps Blue Jays along with some other random cards, hope to have it in the mail early this coming week!