The Masterpieces set: pictures, comments and box/case breakdowns

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[ferdinand_the_yak]

Here are my 7 boxes - one had 3 sketches in it while another had 1. All others had 2.


I have to say that my favourites are the Hamill Gollum and Howard Arwen. I have some difficulty in identifying who is in the Leah Mangue sketch (last sketch in second row).

[grecopa]

I just won my first color sketch on ebay!  A Jake Myler Pippin.  But for some reason I can't get the photo to upload into photobucket so I can share.    Anyway, it's cool and I'm giddy! 

[JimKyle]

Ok I bought 2 boxes and this is what I got.
4 sketches the 5th one is my personal.

1 John Watkins Chow full color boromir (part of a multicard set)
1 Roberto Flores Gandalf
1 Darla Ecklund Boromir
1 Matthew Goodmanson Eye of Sauron

Again, the fifth card is one of my personal 6 cards back.

All are up for grabs if anyone is interested. Email me at jimkyle@jimkyle.net  for more info.

[ztaylork]

Here is a case I cracked, I usually just bunch them all together for the highlights, but this was a great case, so I wanted to share its full contents

[ztaylork]

And here is some highlights from some of the other cases (will have more tonight...the De Liz Map, and the Dillon Gimli...and others
  As always, I am always open to trade offers, or if someone just wants to buy one, however there are definetly some that will be harder to get out of me

[grecopa]

Good stuff, Zach!  You don't often see a Figwit card, that's kind of cool.    The Mylers are really nice too.

I finally got my picture to load.  Heres my Pippin:


Jackie, I'm sorry to see all the doubles you got in your cases.  But you got some nice cards from other artists.  Topps screwed up with collation for sure.  Double sketches in the same case should never happen.

[Bitsy]

Those are some lovely sketches everybody! 

Love the Pippin sketch Kelly!!!!!!!!   

I had not heard about the after market ban--what is this about?

[ztaylork]

Well, pulled a couple more really great cases, man these are hit or miss a lot on the case level when it comes to certain artists.  Here are 9 of the best out of one case break:

[ztaylork]

And here is another great case that we opened, with 9 of the best cards:  One of which is what I believe to be an unsigned Cat card, can anyone email the guy from topps and see if it is possible to at least get unsiged cards signed?

[ztaylork]

And just some nice cards that we pulled out of a few other cases:

[grecopa]

Those are some lovely sketches everybody! 

Love the Pippin sketch Kelly!!!!!!!!   

I had not heard about the after market ban--what is this about?

With Evolution the artists were free to color thier cards after they had been pulled out of packs.  With Masterpieces, they aren't allowed to alter the sketches at all.  :'(

[ztaylork]

Ok, here are some of my favorite Fabbri and Dalla Vecchia cards from the boxes I opened. 






And I just love the Green Army of dead cards, and they are all different so far!!!

[EmpPalpatine]

WOW I really have become a favorite of Fabri's work!  I would love to own that Gandalf, Ghimli and Aragon!

[bush360]

Wow Zach those cases and pulls are amazing, I am cracking another 4 cases over the weekend and hopefully will be able to get them upon ebay once i have fixed my ebay account on tuesday.

[Bitsy]

Those are some lovely sketches everybody! 

Love the Pippin sketch Kelly!!!!!!!!   

I had not heard about the after market ban--what is this about?

With Evolution the artists were free to color thier cards after they had been pulled out of packs.  With Masterpieces, they aren't allowed to alter the sketches at all.  :'(

That seems so sad--I mean, it's weird that they wouldn't be allowed to alter their own artwork if they wanted.   

[Bogleg]

Just opened my case plus one box (couldn't wait until tomorrow  ) As usual, Sharon, the lucky charm helped.

The single box from LondonExpo gave me :-

6 Card etched foil set
9 Card foil art set
No. 4 of 9 Bronze parallel
Sketch - Fabbri
Sketch - Hodges

The case brought the following :-

Sketches:- (scans to follow later)

Fabbri x2 ( one Green Army of the dead )
Cook x2
Shum
Ecklund
Vecchia
Teranishi
Persampieri
Kyle
Graham
Flores
O'Neill
Goodmanson
Dieffenbach
Pronovost

All the images on the repeat artists were different 

The Bronze parallels reaped :-

1 (x2), 2 (x2), 3, 5, 6, 7.

My lucky charm then found...

Gold Parallel 2 of 9 No. 53/99

and in the same case...

Gold Parallel 5 of 9 No. 24/99

Best case either of us have broken in years  To say I am happy is an understatement. Question now is do I go for the set of Gold Parallels or sell/trade them?

[Bitsy]

Great Case! Congrats! 

[grecopa]

Nice case Bogleg!  Are you going to post some scans?  I would trade/sell the gold cards, but I'm not much for parallel sets anyway.     Imagine what kind of sketches you could get for them!

[ztaylork]

Just cracked 2 cases, and very happy with the De Liz Arwen, and the De Liz/ Brent Engstrom card....not to mention some other gems

[grecopa]

Oh my gosh!  That De Liz Arwen is absolutely beautiful!  I'm sure that's a keeper for you.  If you plan to list one or both of the Frampton Gollums on ebay, make a post.