Sportlots: Multiple Short Prints, Many Minis, and the Man and Myth: Paul Bunyan!

I'm back with another padded mailer from my recent Sportlots purchase, this time from user jetcards.  We'll begin with a set that I still haven't finished - but which I was able to grab a number of cards from several different sellers (these being the final cards from the 2001 Topps HD set that I purchased this time around):

With those two short prints in hand, I'm down to needing only 6 more cards before I'll have another set completed.

2001 Topps High Definition (HD) Wants:  103, 105, 106, 108, 111, 114

I have to admit, I don't know why Topps chose to "red out" the background on the short prints.  The whole gimmick of the HD set was supposed to be stellar photography...why go to the trouble to tint out the background?  At least the non-short print cards in the set had full color backgrounds (and thus look better, at least to my eyes)!

In addition to the two HD cards I needed, user jetcards also had some 2010 Allen & Ginter minis that I was missing including four from the regular back mini set.

I've mentioned before that for some years of Ginter I am collecting the full mini set (not including the minis from rip cards, i.e. the extended minis).  2010 is one such year that I've decided to go for the mini set and thanks to this purchase (plus a few others from the same large Sportlots order), I'm getting closer and closer to having that set done as well.

Finally, we stick with 2010 Allen & Ginter for the true prize of this particular purchase:

Yep, another Creatures of Legend, Myth, and Joy for my set!  This mini set eluded me for years and years but only a month or so ago did I decide to actually actively collect it.  And now, here we are a few weeks later and I've made substantial progress on this tricky little set!

That's it from this particular seller but there are still a few more packages sitting on my desk from the same Sportlots order.  More on those in a future post!