Autograph Additions Catch up

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 With a new job and a lot of stuff going on, I have only really had time to post some of the bigger hits I've recently gotten. I am going to use this post as a catch up for everything else I've acquired recently that has not yet been posted.  

Three Juventus autos from a break, the above being Francisco Conceicao /10 and the next two being base autos of Lois Openda and Fabio Miretti. This ended up being a very good break for me as I also pulled a Kenan Yildiz super short-printed case hit numbered /5. If you notice the autograph of Openda below, and compare it to the /25 autograph I got of his from Topps Chrome about six weeks ago, you'll notice a big difference. It's always interesting when a signature changes so much. Could be nothing to it and the athlete got tired of signing by the end so shortened the auto, or it could be something more nefarious at play like he didn't sign one of them himself. Who knows?

The next two autographs are of AS Roma player Evan Ferguson. As you can probably tell based on some recent posts, I was taking Roma a bit in Finest UCC breaks to try and chase a Francesco Totti auto, which I did end up getting. In doing so though, I ended up with four Ferguson autos including the green /99 and the gold /50. I gave the second base auto away in a break to someone else.

I've been avoiding Prizm World Cup breaks because they are so damn expensive, but did partake in just one case break where I took Sweden. I legitimately only got one card in the whole break, and it ended up being Sweden legend goalkeeper Thomas Ravelli who led Sweden to a third place World Cup finish once.

Lastly, the above auto is a tie dye /10 of Brazilian forward and former Bundesliga star Giovane Elber, numbered /10. This was a cool hit in a Select Ligue 1 case break where I took the Elber spot for around $4. 


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