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Topps Archives Week: The Final Two (probably) Blasters

Over the past week, I've had plenty of Topps Archives posts - including a variety of blaster breaks.  Today, I want to highlight the final two blasters that I purchased.  I'm not going to list every single card this time since most of the base cards are duplicates...but I will show off a few of the highlights.

2012 Topps Archives:
Blaster #6:


I managed to land 23 more base cards that I needed - an impressive total considering how many blasters I've opened at this point!  Unfortunately, my luck didn't hold with the short prints.  Each blaster contains two short prints - but I only managed to get one new one.  The duplicate happened to be of Sandy Koufax - a card that I'm fairly confident I can trade away in exchange for one (or more) short prints that I still need (Editors note:  this card is already traded away!).

While the base cards were a positive, the inserts were a negative.  I didn't pull anything rare - not even a deckle edge card.  Instead, I managed to get a pair of Archive reprints (Duke Snider and Eddie Murray) - both of which were new to me.  I also pulled a Troy Tulowitzki 1967 sticker card that I didn't yet have.  After that though, it was three different inserts that were duplicates.  A pair of cloth stickers (Rod Carew and Joe Morgan) and a Topps 3D card of Matt Kemp.

2012 Topps Archives:
Blaster #7:


By the time I opened up the seventh blaster, I figured I would have a full base set (at a minimum).  As it turned out, I am 19 cards short both before and after opening Blaster #7 - yep, a blaster full of trade bait!

Luckily, I did much better with the inserts in this blaster.  I pulled two short prints (Ken Griffey Jr. and Von Hayes) both of which I needed for my set.  I also pulled a Deckle Edge card of Bob Gibson that I needed and two more Archive reprints that I needed (George Brett and Juan Marichal).  My 3D card was of Felix Hernandez (also needed).  Heck, even my Cloth sticker was new to me - Giancarlo Stanton.  The only duplicate insert was another Troy Tulowitzki sticker.

And the big hit of the blaster?  My third relic thus far - and the best to date.  Orlando Cepeda!

Good stuff - even if I didn't complete one measly base set with 7 blasters!

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