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Inkworks 2006 Firefly??
June 24, 2017, 09:31 AM
TKingInkworks 2006 Firefly??
Hi- I am new to this site but not to collecting. Can anyone point me in the right direction for buying an unopened box of Inkworks
2006 Firefly cards? Ebay is a miss and don't care for them anyway. If you have specific information I am all ears. Tanks!
June 24, 2017, 10:19 AM
Triple-Frogquote:
Originally posted by TKing:
Hi- I am new to this site but not to collecting. Can anyone point me in the right direction for buying an unopened box of Inkworks
2006 Firefly cards? Ebay is a miss and don't care for them anyway. If you have specific information I am all ears. Tanks!
Don't like to be the bearer of bad news but you are very unlikely to find an unopened box more than ten years after release

. There are non on Ebay I could see and that is usually a good indicator you won't find any anywhere.
Probably your only hope albeit slim is if an old school shop has one gathering dust.
June 24, 2017, 10:55 AM
TKingHi- thanks for replying. Yes, I agree, I'm hoping someone knows such a shop. I collect early 19th century baseball so I am familiar with truly scarce cards, and I own non sport boxes older than 10 years, so I am hoping. If anyone out there has a specific place...
June 24, 2017, 11:09 AM
barobehereNot that this will be much help but I owned a comic book shop when Inkworks was in business and both the Serenity and Firefly sets were sold out by Inkworks. Usually there was a window after release that you could re-order almost anything from them, even some Buffy sets which were hugely popular then. Good luck on your search!
June 24, 2017, 11:43 AM
TKingHi- thanks, it does help. Do you have any intuition on what an unopened box would reasonably cost now? A ballpark figure?
June 24, 2017, 04:57 PM
RavenThis was a nice set with nice clean autograph cards. I never tried to complete it, but I picked up most of the autographs over the years.
As has been said, I also think finding a sealed box will be a challenge, but I wonder why you want one? Even though a box is hard to find, the cards are not. They aren't even terribly expensive. There are no $400 autographs, maybe 2 or 3 over $100. Same thing with Serenity, even the star signatures are not truly big, except for Glau.
Unless you want a box to go along with a master collection, the Firefly box would probably cost you just as much or more than anything you could find in it.
June 24, 2017, 08:26 PM
chesspiecefaceThere's a couple of unredeembable redemptions in that, too, and one of them is Fillion.
The 3 Razor "Ink Vault" releases from 2008-09 that liquidated the remaining Inkworks inventory had a goodly number of Firefly and Serenity in them.
I wasn't saving those, so besides Ron Glass, who I liked on "Barney Miller", I sold all the ones I got (no Glau, but most of the others from both sets).
I now wish I'd kept the Hendricks and Morena as I later loved their work on "Mad Men" and "Homeland", respectively.
Good luck with the search!
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June 24, 2017, 08:40 PM
Ravenquote:
Originally posted by chesspieceface:
The 3 Razor "Ink Vault" releases from 2008-09 that liquidated the remaining Inkworks inventory had a goodly number of Firefly and Serenity in them.
Yes, now that you mention it, a good many of my Firefly and Serenity autographs were acquired from those Razor grab bag vaults. I think I bought the Fillions and I didn't get a Glau either.
As bad as the Inkworks dump was for many people, those cheap Razor boxes were a lot of fun for collectors that had not bought into the products when released.
June 25, 2017, 06:31 AM
TKingHi- I see there have been more posts since I started this thread. The reason I want a box is I'm a fan of the show who is VERY late to the party on this product. I suppose I could cheat and buy the set, but that's no fun. My daughter likes to open the cards and, since its not a high end set, that's fun too. Still would love to hear from anyone with a box!
June 25, 2017, 06:32 AM
TKingHi- also, the fact that finding an unopened box is a challenge, is part of the reason I want one.