Thursday, May 22, 2014

Silver Linings

I’ve noticed a lot of silver autos on cards lately. I’ve also noticed that a really fat, chubby marker was used, and the signatures look crappy. Take in point the cards below (I don't own these cards):
Fat silver, no? Now look at this:
The other day during a Gary Sanchez eBay search, I found this and won it at a reasonable price. The silver is awesome. It’s very thin and REALLY jumps off the card. It reminds me of the black wax paper we played with as kids, where you took a sharp edge and drew in it, and there was an assortment of colors underneath. The Topps Museum cards would have looked better if their pen was closer to this one.

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  1. Good point. The Carlton card doesn't look good. The poor guy has to try squeezing his name in that little space. The Trout card looks all right but all he does is the "M" and the "T" in is name by the looks of it.

    Imagine Jarrod Saltalamacchia trying to fit his name in there. Yikes!

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    1. Yeah, the tip of the pen is just too thick. Silver autos are cool, I just don't like them all squeezed together.

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  2. Silver Sharpies are good for one, maybe two autographs. I'm not sure if that Gary Sanchez card was the first signed with that particular pen, or if whoever makes Onyx found something better to use.

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    1. You're right. The markers don't last long at all before getting all frayed.

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  3. Agree 100%! I tend to like my women thick, but my autographs thin. Although I wouldn't kick the Carlton out of my collection ;-)

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  4. The Carlton card looks like my signature when I was first learning to write in cursive.

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    1. It does have a nice second-grade cursiveness to it.

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