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Got my box today and was very pleased with it
Here's what was inside:
1 base set of 90 cards
12 base extras
4 foil parallels
1 Linen texture parallel, numbered 2/75
8 of 9 Weapons cards (1:4)
1 Smaug Puzzle card (1:24)
2 Foil Board Character cards (1:12)
1 Autograph Jed Brophy as Nori, says "Hi XX"
1 Sketch by Achilleas Kokkinakis of Radagast on his rabbit pulled sled. (1:96)

Nice cards, the sketch is cool, no poster or protrait cards, but this is easily my best of all 3 Hobbit boxes.
 
Posts: 2911 | Location: Crystal Lake, IL | Registered: December 04, 2000Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Here are the hits from my case break...

AUTOS
Aidan Turner as Kili the Dwarf
Howard Shore, Composer
Jed Brophy as Nori the Dwarf
John Bell as Bain son of Bard
John Callen as Oin the Dwarf ("What's that? War?")
John Tui as Bolg
Ken Stott as Balin the Dwarf
Manu Bennett as Azog
Mary Nesbitt as Tilda
Peggy Nesbitt as Sigrid
Stephen Hunter as Bombur the Dwarf

and this Illustration Autograph...



I pulled 5 sketch cards...


Clay Sayre


Fer Galicia


Nathan Nelson


Ken Gordon


and this beauty by Veronica O’Connell...


 
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Those sketches are all very well done and the O'Connell is outstanding. I've seen a few really good pieces done by her and I don't know what the exact pecking order for sketch artists is these days, but I'd have to guess that she is moving up rapidly. Thumb Up
 
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Originally posted by Raven:
Those sketches are all very well done and the O'Connell is outstanding. I've seen a few really good pieces done by her and I don't know what the exact pecking order for sketch artists is these days, but I'd have to guess that she is moving up rapidly. Thumb Up


Veronica has been up with the top sketch artists for many years
 
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Originally posted by Raven:
Those sketches are all very well done and the O'Connell is outstanding. I've seen a few really good pieces done by her and I don't know what the exact pecking order for sketch artists is these days, but I'd have to guess that she is moving up rapidly. Thumb Up


Veronica has been up with the top sketch artists for many years


Then her name doesn't come up as often as it should. Wink
 
Posts: 10383 | Location: New York | Registered: November 20, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Overall happy with what I received, but disappointed to be shorted an auto and one of the sketches left a lot to be desired!

Arkenstone: 1 (base #12)
Plate: base #44 (black)
Portrait set: 2 (+3 spares)
Smaug set: 2 (+6 spares)
Weapons sets: 20 (+12 spares)
Character set: 7 (+6 spares)
Canvas parallel: 24
Foil parallel: lots but could not make a full set
Lenticular: KA9 (2), KA10 (0), KA11(2), KA12 (1)
Illustrated auto: 0
Poster autos: 0
Normal autos:
AB: 1
AT: 1
EL: 2
GM: 1
CA5 : 1
JN: 1
JBR: 1
JBE: 0
JC: 1
JT: 2
KS: 0
LP: 0
LE: 1
MB: 1
MH: 1
MF: 2
MN: 1
PN: 1
PH: 1
CA1: 0
RA: 2
RG: 0
IH: 0
SH: 1
WK: 1
Sketches by
K Meyer jr (2)
M Streb (2)
F Quintero
C Meeks
D Torres
A Kokkinakis
 
Posts: 168 | Location: Green Hammerton, Yorkshire, UK | Registered: November 15, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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OK, a little late to the party thanks to my parcel being sat in UK Customs for a fortnight Frown Anyway, they finally arrived this morning and I've just finished breaking and collating everything. Still need to scan in the autos but wanted to post the highlights from the two cases as soon as possible. So here are the sketches:

Case 1:

Gavin Hunt, Fer Galicia, Carolyn Edwards
Mike James


Case 2:

Achilleas Kokkinakis, Gabe Farber, Can Baran (I think)
Leon Braojos


Oh, and my best auto found in my first case:


Really pushed for time today but these are scans of all the autgraphs I pulled along with the two Printing Plates I found:

Case 1:



Cyan Plate for card #58



Case 2:



I think I did pretty well Smile

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I'll say you did well! Those are some great sketches, Kevin!! Thumb Up

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Reliving my childhood one piece of painted plastic and slab of cardboard at a time.
 
Posts: 971 | Location: San Diego | Registered: July 21, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Just about every sketch is very good. Amazing Carolyn Edwards.

Well done.
 
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