2024 Topps Update #MLMU-PS, Major League Material Relic ⭐ Paul Skenes RC
This card was returned to me earlier this week.
I love relic cards, so the low grade does not bother me in the least.
Collect What You Love.❤

2024 Topps Transcendent Collection VIP 2024 Rookie Through The Years #PS-1966 ⭐Paul Skenes RC
This card was just returned to me from PSA on Tuesday.
I bought it raw a long time ago and waited even longer to get it back from PSA.
With it's arrival, I now have all the 2024 Topps Transcendent Collection VIP 2024 Rookie Through The Years cards (1966, '67, '68, '90, and 2017).
I'll be posting a visual creation that includes images of all five cards soon, so be on the lookout!👀

2024 Leaf Web Exclusive #116, Anime Nation ⭐ Paul Skenes #30/145
Happy to have this phenomenal card back home after a very long stay at PSA.
As you all may know, I love Skenes cards designed in the cartoon or anime style.
This card fits that bill perfectly.
Vibrant Rookie-year Skenes card.

The clean Anime Nation design is a very popular aesthetic, especially with Skenes wielding a bat and parrot.

This card is from a very limited checklist - only 14 cards, which greatly focuses demand and scarcity.
Plus there are only 145 copies in existence and this one is #30 of 145.
#30 is Paul Skenes jersey number which makes this card very unique.

2023 Panini Elite Extra, Orange Die-Cut, #'d/99 ⭐ Paul Skenes RC
I just got these cards back from PSA today.
This is one of the most satisfying Skenes' acquisitions I've made.
These cards are amazing.
I bought these cards raw and submitted them to PSA so long ago that I'd nearly forgotten about them.
This set is almost a perfect embodiment of my collecting philosophy - "Collect What You Love."❤

It isn't the most expensive Skenes set.

It isn't the lowest-numbered Skenes parallel.

It isn't a 1/1.

But it has something those things don't necessarily have, but are important to me:

a complete visual concept, unusual physical construction, genuine scarcity, exceptional grading, a population-leading configuration, and a connection to Roberto Clemente through the one perfect card because the last card, graded PSA 10 is numbered #21/99.