McCutchen Monday: Let's Go to a Museum

Last December I showed off a 2013 Topps Museum Canvas Collection card of Cutch.  Might as well start this December off the same way...

I present to you the 2014 Topps Museum Canvas Collection of Cutch.  Based on the artwork I believe these reprinted canvas collection were drawn by sketch artist Brian Kong.  If anyone has any information if this is correct, please let me know.

Sunday Museum

When I was really young, I used to like to go to the museum and check out all the dinosaur bones and neat history artifacts.  Lately, I've been watching a ton of Discovery, Animal Planet, and History Channel documentaries and realized that I need to go visit a museum again.  Well, I didn't quite make it to one, so instead I just pulled out my 2013 Topps Museum collection of base cards and inserts and finally after many months of living behind ultra-pro page protectivity, they were able to breathe again (briefly) just for a scan.

Below is a lot of 4 cards I won for less than $7 shipped.
I absolutely love the base cards, but as a one time comicbook and sketch collector, I have to show off the inserts first...

The Canvas Collection inserts are beautifully drawn.  Topps even put a few original art sketches randomly into packs like the Cutch I showed off in July.  I'd like to own an original sketch of the Great One too.

 This is the Canvas Collection of the Andrew McCutchen card.

Now for the base...

 This is what the Topps Museum base cards look like.  They aren't numbered, but do feature a nice frame (sorry for bad scan) around the card and a nice image of the player on the front.  Less is more when it comes to these.  They aren't over the top with a lot of bells and whistles and foiling and funky fonts.  Basic is better

The Willie Stargell above is a bronze parallel numbered 277/424.

Now for the card backs

McCutchen Monday: Museum Canvas ORIGINAL ARTWORK!!!

My current favorite player in baseball today is Andrew McCutchen.  Quite honestly, he might be my favorite player I've ever gotten a chance to see play. I currently own almost 300 unique cards of Cutch and hope to get that number closer to 400 by the end of the year.  Amongst my cardboard collection of Cutch are many autographs, over a dozen 1/1s, and almost enough jersey material to put his jersey back together.  Back in 2011, I created Morton Mondays, but with the lack of Charlie Morton cards available, I changed it to McCutchen Mondays so each Monday I will show off one new card from my Cutch collection.

To see all my Andrew McCutchen relics, autos, printing plates, manupatches, etc ... check out this link.

Growing up, I loved to read comic books.  My favorites were the X titles (X-Men, X-Force, X-Factor, Generation X, etc).  As I got older, my appreciation for the comics remained the same, but my tastes changed.  I began to follow different artists rather than specific titles.  At one point I had a huge collection of original artwork from all different genres of comics.  My love for original art is still inside and when I can combine that with a limited print baseball card of my favorite player, well.....just pinch me.

2013 Topps Museum Canvas Collection 8/10

I grabbed this low numbered (#8/10) original art canvas collection of Cutch off ebay with a best offer of $60.  The Harpers are selling in the $150-$250 range with many other players commanding at least a $100.  I'm really happy I was able to add this unique card of Cutch to my collection.

Here's the back in case anyone wants to see it.

I don't mean to brag, but I have an awesome Andrew McCutchen collection.  I'm happy to add another low numbered unique item to my Cutch collection.