Saturday, February 05, 2011

Some great new Walter Payton stuff

I always enjoy a nice picture or print of Walter payton. Here's a nice 11x14 sketch plus a print by Bryan Reno. One of these days I will have to put all of my Payton stuff together in one post. Here is the latest hoard in somewhat of a chronological order.

I bought some duplicate rookie cards because they appeared in GREAT shape...the infamous 1976 Topps #148 and a Mint or better Crane Disc. More rare than the Crane Disc, the "Saga" Disc is allegedly worth around $400. I found a PSA 9 of that card.

I also have obtained a few more unique cards...a 1979 Sportscaster card (4.3 inch by 6.3 inch), 1979 Stop and Go 3D card a 1981 Bears Police PSA 10 (Population of only 6 in the world of that

grade) and A highly sought out 1982 Marketcom card #32, Series C made in St. Louis.

Another oddball card is the 1988 Starting Lineup card that was to be included in the first series of the football action figures by Kenner. Kenner forgot that Payton retired in 1987 and his likeness, etc. was no longer property of the NFL or NFL Players Association. A few of these cards have made it to the secondary market and I have one graded PSA 9, Mint.

Next I have brand new 1986 musical pinback that I am very curious to rip open and see if it works! You know I won't. I love the 1981 Coke bottle cap of Walter as well as the 1983 NAPPCO pencil of Walter What, you ask? A pencil? Yes, I respond, a TEN DOLLAR pencil!

1986 Musical Pinback/Button

1981 Bottle Cap

1983 Nappco Pencil

I picked up a gem of a collectible in the 1987 Ace Fact Packs made in Great Britain. This 33 card deck was manufactured in many of the NFL teams to promote American Football. I don't think they were big sellers over there. They have become highly collectible here in the U.S. A Superstar's individual card, such as Walter Payton's has a value of $100. Some of the other Bear Players like Hampton, McMahon, Dent and McMichael can command $35-$50 EACH! I have the entire set in original box which is said to value at $300.

"Payton" 1988 By mark Sufrin

1996 Grolier Card

This bext item is just plain sweet. It is from 1990 and is a 9x12 framed Stamford Art Mirror. I have not found out too much about it. The picture seems familiar. Regardless, it is a very, very nice addition to my collection.

Just an ash tray with a nicely embossed figure #34 of Walter Payton - hard to see in the picture

Wilson walter payton football

Genuine autographed ball - I have cleaned it up and it looks MUCH better

A couple of neat Caps

a wood cut out - 12 inches

A little rubber stamp

1992 Sports Impressions (duplicate) ^

1995 SLU Timeless Legends Black Shoes ^^^

Above is a very rare Hall of Fame figurine manufactured by Vince Costello. Here is his brief history from Wikipedia. a former American football linebacker who played twelve seasons in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns (1956–66) and New York Giants (1967–68). He later coached with Paul Brown as linebackers coach for the Cincinnati Bengals(1969–1973); Miami Dolphins (1974) and the Kansas City Chiefs (until his retirement).Costello graduated from Magnolia High School in 1949.^[1]Costello now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he owns a company that makes and designs various sports collectibles, including a line exclusively designed for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. His store is called Vince Costello's Collectibles.

Vince Costello

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vincent Costello (born April 8, 1932 in Dellroy, Ohio) is

Matryeshko nesting Dolls

McFarlane 12 inch RARE Blue jersey variant

1978 plastic Vienna Beef Cups - Mike Phipps, James Scott, Walter payton and Alan Page

Danbury Mint Stein and Clock

.999 Siler Round

From kentucky Fried Chicken - headband and wrist bands "Payton Power"

Pretty cool City of Chicago Parking Pass for 2001 honoring Payton

Stickers

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Walter, Gale and the New Guy

I may have a ton of Urlacher stuff, but my favorite things are still those Walter Payton collectibles. My daughter bought me the 12 inch McFarlane figure (white jersey) for Christmas and I always seem to pick up a few other items here and there.

I now have a framed Memorial Program from Walter Payton's service at Soldier Field. I'm sure that Walter is up there with the Angels, just wished he could have stayed here on Earth a while longer. I'll bet he would have done some great things. Please check out the Walter and Connie Payton Foundation and see how you can help.
http://www.payton34.com/

I bought another 1992 Sport's Impressions figurines, club edition. Some guy was just selling them way too cheap, like under $10. They are worth $100. Now I have a new one still in the box. ETOPPS offered a Super Bowl Series Walter Payton card, so I now have that in my ETOPPS collection.

I hit paydirt with a couple of new Gale Sayers figurines. They are both autographed, well supposedly, and have values of $300.00 each. Of course, I would only have them because I lucked into some pennies on the dollar deal. One is the 8 inch 1992 Sports Impressions...it is extremely nice and the signature card is very, very good. The other is a Salvino figure and is kind of an odd helmetless figure. The helmet comes with it, but the thing has no face mask (at least mine doesn't)and the helmet is way too small for the figure. The worst part is that it looks like some fool "traced" over a fading autograph. Oh well, that's Ebay for you. Sometimes it's REALLY good and SOMETIMES it's more like 'ya get what ya pay for'. My problem is that I refuse to return any items because I have waited so long to procure them. Anyway, my Gale Sayers shelf is looking mighty, might fine!

...and NOW there is the new guy, Matt Forte...wow, what a great Rookie year HE had. He's the man! I hope that he can have a super career and end up some day being mentioned in the same sentences as Sayers and Payton. I was a little leary of buying any expensive rookie cards of Forte, because I've been screwed too many times in the past...ex. Enis, McNown, Grossman, Benson...so I decided to go another way. I bought an autographed picture with COA and picture/video proof of his signing. The nice thing about the picture, well first of all, IT'S HUGE at 16x20...it's Forte's VERY FIRST GAME against the Colts, PLUS, it is the 4th or 5th carry of the game where Forte runs 5o yards for a touchdown...HIS VERY FIRST NFL TOUCHDOWN! Also, I like the fact that the autograph was signed in 2008, his first year. He may sign that same picture the rest of his playing days, but I will always know that mine was signed October 8, 2008. I did buy his ETOPPS rookie card too, because that is part of my collection.

More Urlacher

I could probably do a whole room with my Urlacher stuff. He is the King of present day Chicago Bear products, and extremely marketable for all football fans. It is my intention to grab hold of every Urlacher item I can find and I am particulary fascintated with action figures, dolls, etc. I have never seen a Bobblehead that I do not own, well, except the 3 foot tall one. In 2008 I purchased the BigHead version and the Photobase version.

and THEN I thought that I had mad the deal of all deals...I won an Ebay auction on an 18 inch Urlacher bobblehead for $50. I believe the value of those to be around $200. My excitement for delivery was intense, only to be totally dejected when I picked up the box on the front porch that the mailman had left. Needless to say, there was a lot of clanking going on. I can't believe the guy stuck it loosely in a box that was way too big and it appeared that he, without caution, tried to stuff loose newspaper around it! I sent him pictures and he gave me my money back. I let him keep $10.00 because I did glue the dozens of broken pieces back together and I am now able to display it in a dark corner. lol. However, I am disappointed that I don't have the real deal. Oh well, shit happens. That's the problem with shipping items.

I've seen it all, believe me. UPS plays WWF with their deliveries. Man, (my wife hates it when I say "Man") UPS really wrecks stuff...I can give you so many stories...I CAN'T understand why people use THAT service...It certainly CAN'T be cheaper. As much flack, or is it flak?, as the USPS gets, I would take THEM over UPS 100 times to 1. FED-EX has never given me bad shit, but that dang UPS has broken SO many of my orders! The boxes, a lot of the times, look like they have been DROPPED, KICKED, SAT ON and RUN OVER! Those brown shirted guys are fast to jump out of their trucks and deliver, but ANY breakable item is always broken, GUARANTEED! Sure, I can maybe get refunds from the fuckers, but that does NOT soothe me! I wanted the items to be delivered in tact, and not DAMAGED, I AM A SERIOUS COLLECTOR! okay...my UPS venting is over. (deep breath) The worst part about my "rant" is that my 18 inch Urlacher Bobble was delivered by the USPS. But, I don't blame them, it was lame packaging.

I saw an Urlacher Probot transormer doll being offered for sale at $29.00. TWENTY-NINE DOLLARS? WTF. I did some research and it was true. Other dealers were selling Peyton Manning dolls for $39.00. They were calling these dolls extremely rare. I waited a few weeks and finally bought 2 of them for $36.00, because I just had to open one up and see what it was all about. The figure is about 4 inches large and it's head spins and rotates back and forth between Urlacher's bare head and a Chicago Bears' helmet. I found the thing to basically be a piece of crap and poorly made. The McDonald's Happy meals toys are much better. Oh well, maybe it will be worth something down the road, as I have one new in package. I also found a hand blown X-mas ornament that I thought was somewhat rare. It is a Lausche painted ornament from Germany...kind of cool. I know these Lausche people paint a ton of ornaments, but THIS is an Urlacher!

Every Christmas we get a little money and we try and buy something substantial for the little woman and something EXPENSIVE for my Bears' collection. LOL. Wife got a Dell laptop and I bought the Urlacher 4 doll series of 2008 Upper Deck All Star Vinyl dolls. The home jersey doll was limited to 1,000 produced, and the white figure and orange figures had only 500 made. Upper Deck finished off with an all black version limited to 250. Needless to say, these babies were quite expensive; initially going for $50, $75, $75, and $100. I was able to buy all for around $200 and now the prices that I see online are quite a bit lower. I think Upper Deck came out and initially priced these with a price much higher than many were willing to pay. Only the future will tell what these things are worth. Anyway, they are nice. They are packaged in a book like display box. I just don't know how to display them.