I am sports artist Monty Sheldon and throughout 2009 I put up for auction my very first line of one-of-one, finished-penciled, sketch cards - Sheldon's Sports Card Champions. The set turned out to be the very first 1/1 sequentially numbered sports sketch card set in the hobby and consisted of 250 cards by years end. With the 2010 sketch card set I am at it again and this year I am re-introducing an old Pacific Coast League Zee-Nut card element--attached coupons! Each card will come with a coupon attached at the bottom and after a collector saves varying amounts, they can be clipped and redeemed for other original art of mine such as sketch cards, hand-painted cards, baseballs, hockey pucks or cigar boxes. The 2010 coupon redemption plan is as follows: 10 coupons = One (1) 2010 S.S.C.C. sketch card which will be a part of the 2010 series; customer may choose the player 25 coupons = One (1) hand painted premium art card; customer selected player, more details to follow 50 coupons = One (1) hand-painted baseball or hockey puck or cigar box; customer selected player Coupons distributed with the 2010 S.S.C.C. cards expire on 12/31/2012. For those not familiar with the Zee-Nut card history, From 1911 to 1938, Collins-McCarty Company included their sports cards, highlighting Pacific Coast League baseball players, with their Home Run Kisses, Zee-Nut and Ruf-Nek candies. From 1913 to 1937 cards appeared with a coupon printed on the bottom that could have been redeemed for other items. As I was signing a group of cards for the upcoming Topps National Chicle football and baseball sets, I noticed that the cards were the same size as the original 1935 Chicle football cards. I really liked the look and feel of those cards and I decided that I would fashion my upcoming sketch card set to be roughly the same size. After measuring the cards out on a blank sketch card, I noticed that I would have to trim about 5/8” off the bottom of each card. Right away the similarities with the Zee-Nut cards hit me and the “sketch-card-with-coupon” idea was born. With the long history of ACEO artist sketch cards, I wanted to create a set comprised of quality 1-of-1 cards and add them to my already well established line of one-of-one, hand-painted sports cards and baseballs (see pictures below). With my hand-painted cards currently selling for $350.00 - $1000.00 apiece and baseballs each selling for $2500.00 +, these sketch cards will be a shrewd investment for the lucky collector. Recently I have painted 27 cards for Topps and their National Chicle football set. To see a link to all 27 of my football paintings, please see my "about me" page here on eBay. Also, I have just finished painting 35 cards for the Topps National Chicle baseball set that will be coming out in April 2010. For more information about my art or if you have any questions please email at: msheldon77@msn.com This S.S.C.C. set/art project will be a nice accompaniment to the hobby's very first all hand-painted 1/1 card set I produced in conjunction with Helmar Brewing from 2006-09. For more information on my art please email me at: msheldon77@msn.com 
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