Every shop has a shelf that isn't inventory. This is ours — the cards that made us care about this in the first place, shot properly and kept where we can look at them.
The foundation: Mantle, Emmitt Smith, Tom Brady, Manning, Hank Aaron, Jordan. These are the cards that made us care about this in the first place. When you see one here, it's shot properly and kept where we can look at it.
Griffey Jr, Gary Payton, A-Rod, Randy Johnson, Russell Wilson, DK Metcalf, Bobby Wagner, Shawn Kemp, Cal Raleigh, Jaxon Smith-Njigba. If they wore Seattle colors and left a mark, we're keeping them.
We're done chasing full sets — that mid-90s nostalgia is in the past. Now it's rainbows for the players we love, all Seahawks Kabooms, and maybe all Seahawks inserts in modern sets. The hunt is focused, and the shelf is getting deeper.
Most of what we buy comes from people who kept the good stuff for years. If you've decided it's time — or you just want to know what the shelf is worth — we'll give you a straight number, and we'll tell you which ones we'd hold if they were ours.