Cleve's Auction Night: Anyone Like Pins? Padre Pins?

I hope so, because I have a whole stinking bag of 'em after this week's auction:

Now, the question you shouldn't be asking is "Why in the hell would you buy a bag of San Diego Padre Pins?"  You shouldn't ask that because it's not specific enough of a quesiton.  See, it's a bag of San Diego Padre pins for season ticket holders for the 1991 season.

Then, the question you shouldn't be asking is, "Why in the hell would you buy a bag of 1991 San Diego Padre season ticket holder pins?"  You shouldn't ask because I don't really know.  I guess I did it because I have a very humble pin collection that I would love to get into to a larger degree someday.  I'm hoping my little girl will think they're cool and want to do it with me.   So I figure I can trade these off for other pins at some point.  I have a couple of bags of Gateway Computer Winter Olympic pins with that same goal in mind.

Besides the bag only cost me $3.  I guesstimate there are about 50 pins in the bag, so I spent just over a nickel a pin.  I'll probably put a couple up on listia, and of course will be happy to trade you kind folks for any, and I do mean ANY pin you might have to spare (I really like corporate logo pins BTW).  So it wasn't a stupid purchase, so there.


Grades: 

Bag O' Pins:  $3  A-  Sure I didn't need these, but value is value.

Listia Pin Wins

I've sold a few things on Listia, with some aggravating results, but still have enjoyed the experience overall.  I have been able to pick up a few free additions to one of my periphery collections: pins.

 Mostly, my small collection of pins is baseball related.  So I was thrilled to get this Ichiro Jersey pin to add to it.

 The other theme is corporate/business logos.  The Kelloggs Olympic Pins group I showed a while back is an example. This CAT pin only cost a few hundred points. Crap, this iPhone image rotation baloney is pissing me off to no end!

Olympic Pins

This has nothing to do with baseball cards, but I thought it was worth a post.  I came into possession today of some really cool Kellogg's Olympic pins:

The above is actually a group of 9 pins (8 triangle pins of different sports and one large Red Cross pin), and it is quite cool.  Put together, it's the size of an index card, and would look really neat displayed in a shadow box, surrounded by the pins below: 

These were the standard pins I got.  I like the Keebler Elves riding the double decker bus.

I have a modest pin collection that I've built over the years unintentionally, but it's one of those things that I think I could really get into.  Maybe one of my kids will take a shine to these things and it will be a hobby we can get into together down the road and the few pieces I've accumulated will make a nice start.