I was able to pick up another autographed card of Herschel, which fills a long empty space in his TCDB page. This is a 2006 Ultra Campus Classic autographed card of Walker, which is serial numbered to just 25. This card is #19 in the run. The plain version of this card (unsigned) has been in the Hoard for a long time, but I was never able to find the official autographed card, until now.
Many Panini cards have a very similar look as far as the parallels go. Often, just a slight color variation to differentiate between the cards. I have to say though, that this Tie-Dye Prism card of Herschel, from the 2023 Panini Select Draft Picks Snapshots line, has a very cool look to it and really stands out.
It's a relatively low numbered series, running to just 25, with this example being # 3.
Today is my birthday and I decided to buy myself a present. This is a 2022 Panini Impeccable Silver USA Flag card, depicting Herschel Walker.
Each card in the 30-card set, includes a one troy ounce bar of .999 fine silver, which depicts the American Flag. As my birthday is one day before Independence Day, I thought it would make a nice addition to the Hoard.
The cards are serial numbered to 20. This card is #18 and can be seen on the card front, just above Herschel Walker's name.
This is also one of the thickest cards I own. It's nearly a quarter of an inch thick.
There are several different versions to choose from in 2022 and 2023 sets, featuring Herschel Walker. This is my first one from the 2022 Leaf In The Game Used set. This is the Red parallel, which is serial numbered to 45. Whoever uploaded the checklist to the TCDB didn't include the serial numbers, so at this point, I don't know which cards are limited to which card amount.
From what I can see, there is a Black, Bronze, Emerald, Gold, Pattern Silver, Platinum Blue, Purple and Silver, in addition to the Red, shown above.
This is my first "Shimmer" card, in one of the many varieties of the 2023 Panini Prizm Draft Picks line. This is the Gold version, which is serial numbered to 15.
This is the second card in my Top Ten Most Wanted cards that I've nabbed in a week. As discussed in my previous post, I was able to pick up a 1996 Pacific Silver card of Herschel, which had been on my radar for a long time. Shortly thereafter, the above card popped up on Ebay.
It is a 1995 Collector's Edge Black Label Die Cuts #147 of Walker. I put together all the other versions of card #147, in this set, featuring Herschel Walker (there are about 10 variations). I had the regular Black Label edition and the regular die cut version, but until now, was never able to locate the Black Label Die Cuts.
It gets frustrating sometimes to locate a particular example of a card you are looking for, only for it to be of another player. When the card you're after finally does show up, it is a great feeling. The chase really is the fun of it.
I will be hard pressed to duplicate this run of good fortune, but the fact that it did happen, inspires me to keep adding to the Herschel Hoard.
What a week this has been. In my last post, I mentioned that I was one card away from hitting the milestone of one thousand different Herschel Walker cards for my collection, lovingly known as the Herschel Hoard.
I had decided that not just any run of the mill card would do, but that it needed to be special. It would have to be one of my top ten, most wanted cards. I stated that there may not be any new posts on here for a long time, because I was going to wait until the right card came along.
Above is that card, amazingly, found in less than a week. It is a 1996 Pacific Silver #298 card, featuring Herschel Walker. There are four versions of this card in the set. Each color version has 450 cards in the set. The first is what I call the Copper. It's not officially named that, but the color at the bottom of the card front looks copperish to me and that is the only thing which differentiates each set. Second is the Blue, which according to the TCDB, were inserted 9:37 in Hobby packs. Third, is the Red, which were inserted 9:37 in Retail packs. Fourth, the Silver, about which is said, "Inserted in special Retail packs." There is no mention of the ratio, but I would assume it is quite small. The space for this Silver version had been blank at the TCDB, for as long as I've been collecting Walker cards and I started seriously in the mid 1990's.
I don't know if it's fate, karma, luck or whatever, but just a couple days after my last post, I clicked on EBay and there it was: 1996 Pacific Silver #298! I rubbed my eyes in disbelief. I've been burned before, thinking I had found a rare card, but after getting it home, realizing I had been too hasty, and it was not the exact card I was looking for. I perused the item description and saw the menacing words, "only one left." The price was more than reasonable, and I had to have it. A quick click and the words, "Your purchase is complete.", filled me with joy. It ticked every box. A top ten most wanted card for the Hoard; the one thousandth different card collected; a card from Walker's active playing days.
Incredibly, that's not all. Right after I purchased this card, I clicked on the, return to search, button. After scrolling down a bit, I came across a SECOND TOP TEN MOST WANTED card! Needless to say, a second purchase was quickly made. I'd felt as if I'd hit the Comstock Lode. That card will be featured in my next post. All in all, an incredible week of collecting.
