canucksfreak19
Verified Trader,
I was recently featured in Beckett Hockey magazine as the Super Collector of the Month for my Markus Naslund collection. One of the questions that I was asked was if I had a white whale. And I responded with the oldest piece missing from my collection. The 1995-96 Penguins Foodland team issue card. In all my years of collecting I had, literally, never even seen a copy of the card in nearly 16 years of collecting Naslund.
I was hoping that maybe, someone would see that and point me in the direction of a copy of this card. What I, honestly, did not expect happened on Saturday January 4. I woke up to an e-mail from a fellow collector that after reading the article he went down to his basement and found a copy of the card. He asked if I still needed it. I responded that I did. And I asked how much he was looking for, for the card. He said not to worry about any payment, but that he was “Glad I had it for you. Enjoy it and the hunt is over.”
I got home from work last night, and there was a piece of mail waiting for me. I saw the return address and immediately knew what it was. I opened it up and laid eyes on the card that I had never seen in 16 years of collecting Markus Naslund.
Here it is the 1995-96 Penguins Foodland Markus Naslund:
001 by Dave Wilson, on Flickr
003 by Dave Wilson, on Flickr
The card collecting community is fantastic. It is people like D. Ellis from Portsmouth New Hampshire that make this hobby so great. Looking out for one another. This wouldn’t have happened without a fellow collector, Jason, who DM’d me, on Twitter, back in November to see if I was cool with him passing along my info to Al Muir an editor at Beckett. And to Al Muir, and Beckett, thank you. Because of this article I was able to cross off a card that had been on my want list as long as I had a want list.
The hunt for my white whale is over, but the hunt for more Markus Naslund's continues.
Cheers.
I was hoping that maybe, someone would see that and point me in the direction of a copy of this card. What I, honestly, did not expect happened on Saturday January 4. I woke up to an e-mail from a fellow collector that after reading the article he went down to his basement and found a copy of the card. He asked if I still needed it. I responded that I did. And I asked how much he was looking for, for the card. He said not to worry about any payment, but that he was “Glad I had it for you. Enjoy it and the hunt is over.”
I got home from work last night, and there was a piece of mail waiting for me. I saw the return address and immediately knew what it was. I opened it up and laid eyes on the card that I had never seen in 16 years of collecting Markus Naslund.
Here it is the 1995-96 Penguins Foodland Markus Naslund:
001 by Dave Wilson, on Flickr003 by Dave Wilson, on FlickrThe card collecting community is fantastic. It is people like D. Ellis from Portsmouth New Hampshire that make this hobby so great. Looking out for one another. This wouldn’t have happened without a fellow collector, Jason, who DM’d me, on Twitter, back in November to see if I was cool with him passing along my info to Al Muir an editor at Beckett. And to Al Muir, and Beckett, thank you. Because of this article I was able to cross off a card that had been on my want list as long as I had a want list.
The hunt for my white whale is over, but the hunt for more Markus Naslund's continues.
Cheers.
