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A missing glitter finish sets one Go-Matsumoto S-23 apart from Calbee’s 2024 Star Cards—and may make replacing it a tough choice.
A scarce Matsuo-era baseball card pairs Mainichi Orions pitcher Takeshi Nomura with a redemption offer that changed during the promotion.
The 36-card set has colorful caricatures and a fresh supermarket arrival, but its unsweetened kaki no tane snack may not suit every collector.
A last-place 2024 season dampened one collector’s enthusiasm, though opening Calbee packs with his daughter kept the hobby’s simple pleasures alive.
Card #135 stands out for its puzzling photo, star borders and unexpected kei truck. Takashi Yamaguchi’s career adds context, but the other player remains uniden...
More than 100 cards have made a 1979 Calbee set feel possible, but unnumbered cards and costly short prints call for a patient build.
Calbee’s 2025 baseball chip cards arrived May 5, with 60 regular player cards, mascot checklists and a welcome redesign in the Title Holder subset.
A recent Yahoo Auctions lot brought a collector closer to completing the 1989 Mermaid Data Cards set and raised a question about its two numbered halves.
A closet cleanout turned up 50 oversized 1976 Yamakatsu cards, seven albums and a collecting puzzle: which cards belong to which sets?
Calbee’s gold border cards appeared in selected 1980s sets, with rarity varying sharply by year. Here’s what collectors should know about the key groups.
A new lot fills out the second and third series of 1990 Calbee cards, a set distinguished by mixed card sizes and a harder-to-find fourth series.
Thirty unopened BBM packs are on standby, with one 1991 pack already opened and 29 left to savor through the season.
A 500-yen complete set pairs sharp baseball photography with Topps’ distinct card feel, making this 216-card pickup a pleasing bargain.
Two 1970s Calbee cards show Shiro Mizunuma defending home plate, including his role in all seven games of Hiroshima’s 1979 Nippon Series win.
Four Japanese Calbee cards add Sadaharu Oh, Isao Harimoto and Sachio Kinugasa to a growing collection spanning three sets from 1974 to 1976.
A binder now holds about 400 of the 715 cards, with distinctive borders and short printed series shaping this collector’s slow pursuit.
A striking 1977 Calbee photo shows Giants player Toshimitsu Suetsugu after an error against the Tigers, in a game the Giants lost.
More than 100 helper raffle items and five special doll displays brought handmade outfits, accessories and personal touches to Day 2.
A painstaking doll scale tribute to Arthur Hughes’s 1854 painting brought together fitted sewing, embroidery and a hand built garden scene.
Three Sasha dolls bring Mary, Dickon and Colin to life in a handmade garden inspired by the 1975 BBC production.