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Originally posted by Raven:
Congrats on the Emilie De Raven, I didn't see any of those in the previous Vault release, but it may have been in there. The Stan Winston is nice, as are the Xena autos and the Barry Morse.

Almost all of the rest are of course duplicates from what was in last year's Ink Vault. So I'm still wondering what happened to all the Spirit autograph cards? Maybe they'll be put in that Razor Ink Vault VAULT 2011 you want to see.

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Originally posted by chesspieceface:

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Originally posted by Raven:
Congrats on the Emilie De Raven, I didn't see any of those in the previous Vault release, but it may have been in there. The Stan Winston is nice, as are the Xena autos and the Barry Morse.

Almost all of the rest are of course duplicates from what was in last year's Ink Vault. So I'm still wondering what happened to all the Spirit autograph cards? Maybe they'll be put in that Razor Ink Vault VAULT 2011 you want to see.

Thanks! I love the signature on the Morse, quite ornate.

As for Spirt autographs, there's actually a very good chance many of those were redeemed in the waning days of Inkworks, and certainly at a higher percentage than had redemption cards from previous Inkworks underperformers. The reason for this is that once Inkworks announced they were ceasing operations and the Spirit cases were being liquidated, one thing that helped them sell through was the fact that Inkworks said they would honor the redemptions through the expiration date, which was several months later. In that interim, I purchased 3 or 4 cases for what only a month or two before had been pretty much the price of one, maybe one and a half cases, and true to their word, Inkworks did redeem every one, one batch about 2 days before the expiration dates on the cards.

I know of several other collectors who did the same, and based on the great many sketch cards that have appeared on Ebay over this past year, its clear many of the boxes were opened, while the cards were still redeeemable. In addition to seemigly few if any Spirit autographs in the 2010 Vaults, there also seems to be very few Spirit unopened boxes either.

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Originally posted by Nathan MacKeller:
Is the Smallville box worth opening?

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Originally posted by cardinalfan13:
but the quanity of extras autos inkworks had in stock for autos that were not redemptions from other sets you would think even if the vast majority were redeemed they would still have a bunch

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by Nathan MacKeller:
Is the Smallville box worth opening?

Is any box worth opening? Only if you want to see what's inside.

The two listed autographs that you might find are of James Marsters and Tom Wopat. There are nine others in the $20 - $30 range, but that's probably a generous estimate now.

If you have no interest in making the base set or in trying for the main autographs then you might want to leave it sealed. But unless you know someone who collects Smallville and wants to take it off your hands, I don't think you should expect to get too much by way of trade or cash on most of these Inkwork boxes when there is little demand.

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Originally posted by Nathan MacKeller:
At least I would be able to find boxes relatively inexpensively.

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Originally posted by jane:
Cracked open my one box last night. Right before I opened it, I said, "I bet there's a box of Smallville in there." Lo & Behold, Smallville Season 6 box which yielded the following:

Auto: Greyston Holt as Tobias
Pieceworks: PW7 Aaron Ashmore as Jimmy Olsen

And the following four autographs

1. 4400 Jeffrey Combs
2. Sopranos - Matt Servitto as Agent Dwight Harris
3. BSG Season 2 John Heard
4. LOST - Emilie De Raven (although I already had this one).

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Originally posted by HopeTogetNiceRelics:
Hello guys i am new to these forums and joined because i recentally purchased 2 boxes of 2010 ink archives,and i wasn't really happy with what i got,so wanetd to see if i could do some trading,also i ahve one season 2 box of lsot unopened if soemone wants to trade boxs or offer to buy it off of me,Also sorry if i'm being abrasive on my first psot by tpying this much but i read this whole thread and wanetd to address everything. Anyways i am also itnerested in purchasing peiceworks cards if anyone has any they don't want. Also i dont know about you guys but i ddint pull in RA i wish thoguh,also miss lizzy i noticed you collect smallville autos i ahve the one asian doctor lady from season 5 i think if you would be interested.,Anyways nice to emet everybody feel free to emssage me or reply on ehre i am interested in tarding cards and buying some,ALSO j/w is anyone familliar with the RA complete avenegrs boxes?

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Originally posted by HopeTogetNiceRelics:
also miss lizzy i noticed you collect smallville autos i ahve the one asian doctor lady from season 5 i think if you would be interested.

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