I picked up a couple of Downton Abbey autograph singles from eBay recently, to add to my budding collection. I am still trying to decide whether or not I want to build the whole set. You can get most of a Master Set from one case, which is a pretty tempting proposition for me. I've never bought a case of cards before. I don't know if I'd even be able to bring myself to do it. There is decent resale value right now on eBay for most of the autographs and wardrobe cards, and plenty of demand for the sketch cards if you're lucky enough to pull one. I think the odds place sketch cards at about every other case, although that might be wrong.
I specifically targeted the Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith Crawley card, but I picked up the Zoe Boyle as Lavinia Swire card from the same seller because I could combine shipping on them. The other autograph from the set that I really want is Jim Carter as Mr. Carson. His autograph is one of the more costly ones in the set, so I am hoping to pull it from a pack.
These two cards originally showed up in these holders along with grades from some place called GMA. I didn't do much looking into the company, but one of the case had a big crack in it and I though I ought to remove the cards from their prisons. The adhesive on these things was pretty weak, so they popped apart without much resistance.
Here are the plastic prisons post-breakout. I don't have much more in the way of non-sports stuff to show off, but I can probably keep it going for another few posts. I guess I should have formalized this thing and announced a theme week or something. That would have been exciting.
