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FRIDAY, NOV 5th! The 1st Annual 2nd Avenue Trading Card Convention & Swap Meet!

Be there for some amazing raffle items every half hour. And, don’t forget, all attendees will get a first look at the incredible Series 2 Roster! Plus, the SuckPax Series 2 drop, Star Wars Galaxy 5 Card show, and much more…This is an event that you don’t want to miss. Friday, November 5th, 7-11pm Toy […]

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Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants. In honor of their achievement, pictured is a rare 1966 Topps short print Gaylord Perry Giants Card, Card #598, the last card in the set.

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1989 Pro Set Football William “Fridge” Perry A short printed card.

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The 1st Annual 2nd Avenue Trading Card Convention & Swap Meet!

NOVEMBER 5th at Toy Tokyo Underground. Save the Date for this exciting event, and bring your cards, any cards, to show off and/or swap! Special Event Exclusive The Art Hustle Card and Raffles! Come join the fun!

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1958 Bromide Photo Card and Corresponding Menko Card The Bromide (left) features Japanese hall-of-famers: Giants Manager Tetsuharu Kawakami (in kimono) and rookie phenom Shigeo Nagashima (in uniform). The image was also used to create the Menko playing card on the right.

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1952 Mother’s Cookies Chuck Connors A scarce regional card issued on the West Coast a few years before Connors would become a household name as Lucas McCain in The Rifleman television series.

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19th Century Hartshorn’s Shade Rollers Trade Cards In the 19th Century, companies and manufacturers created “Trade Cards” to distribute as promotional items. People would save them and put them in their scrap books. These particular cards were created by the Stewart Hartshorn Shade Roller Company, New York. Click Image to view text on backs…

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Series 1 Announcement & NYCC Special Info

Series 1 is officially Sold Out. We want to thank all of our supporters who helped make The Art Hustle possible, including our manufacturing partner SideKick Media, all of the talented contributing individuals who graced us with their images and art for the inaugural set, and everyone who waited patiently while we got it all […]

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1977 Topps Star Wars Sticker Card A behind-the-scenes image of a very focussed George Lucas tending to Greedo. Love the straw coming out of Greedo’s mouth, presumably enabling the costumed actor to get some ventilation or a drink between takes. Great shot, great colors.

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1949/1950 Topps Felt Back: Joe Paterno, Brown University Topps’ first attempt at a football card set captures the legendary coach during his college days. (Actual card is very small, not much larger than a postage stamp)

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Late 1950’s Sumo Menko Cards

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1894 Mayo Cut Plug Tobacco Card In appreciation of Football season starting this week- This is one of the earliest football trading cards and features one of the Poe brothers (great nephews of Edgar Allen Poe) playing for Princeton University. An extremely rare and desirable card. Image Reference: www.the-game.org

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1967 Wacky Packages Die Cut Cards The ’67 Die Cuts were the first incarnation of the Wacky Package Series. Made to be punched out of the cards, licked and stuck all over the place. These two cards are very rare because they were pulled after a threatened lawsuit by Nabisco.

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Artist Mike Mendez (Nemo) Video

Thanks to Nemo for his contribution to The Art Hustle Series 1 and for putting together this awesome video documenting his hustle.

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1916 Zeenut Candy Card, Jimmy Claxton, Oakland Oaks A gorgeous card, and a remarkable one considering Jimmy Claxton broke the color barrier for only two games in the Pacific Coast League in 1916. The Zeenut Candy Co just happened to have a photographer at one of the games (a double header that day). Claxton was released […]

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1960’s Japanese Gum Card (Possibly LiLi brand) Photo shown isn’t life-size. At its true size, only 9/10″ x 1  3/4″, this little card packs a graphically intense punch.

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1976 TCMA Barry Weinberg Shreveport Captains Card

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Circa late 1950’s Japanese Menko Cards. Precursors to the 1990’s game, Pogs.

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Circa 1912 T207 Louis Lowdermilk, St. Louis, National League One of the rarest tobacco cards, and one of the coolest names.

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