Completing the Canvas

Nearly an entire year had passed by from the release date of 2017 Topps Gallery to when discounted packs hit our local store shelves, and it had been over a decade since Gallery was a thing in the hobby so I wasn't sure of what to expect when I grabbed a couple of fat packs.

Well hell, these are nice I thought. Two days later I returned to the store and bought all of the packs they had. And everytime they were restocked!

Seven years later it is still one of my favorite binders to work on. My base set is still missing many SP's and some insert sets need work. This post will focus on the Canvas parallel.

Canvas are fat/hanger pack exclusives, two per pack. The set includes the first 150 cards of the base set. No SP's were included. Thank god for that as the base SP's are tough falling at 1 in 20 packs. 

The fellow on the pack was one of the first four Canvas that I owned. That first return trip to the store and pack buying frenzy netted me the big guy. 

The decision was made for me, this set needed to be completed along with the base, HOF, Heritage, and Masterpiece inserts. Parallels typically fall by my wayside but not this time. 

The clearance priced packs kept coming - those were the days! Then they were gone. 

Just for fun I wanted to use the cool TCDB history tool, which shows you the date any given card enters your site collection record, and put it into a graph for a visual on how this progressed. 

Hmm, interesting. It really highlights the pack buying early on and then becoming a slow journey to the end with some trades but mostly purchases. 

It also reveals how easy it is to get side-tracked with other projects. Surely this could have been completed sooner. I wonder what some of my other projects look like. Maybe I don't want to see it.

And with Jake Lamb this set is fini!

Thanks for reading, and keep collecting.