What: 2025 Pieces of the Past Personalization Edition
Arrives: Feb. 13, 2026
Box basics: One encased Relic card per box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
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What's buzz-worthy: This higher-end approach includes cuts from documents with pieces shown on the card back every time as it's all about just the single card in the box.

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What: 2025 Pieces of the Past Roaring '20s Edition
Arrives: Dec. 12
Box basics: Two memorabilia cards per eight-pack (32-card) hobby box -- 10 boxes per case
Checklist: TBD
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What's buzz-worthy: This brand focuses on a short period of change in world history with "an expansive checklist of base, chase inserts, 1/1s, and amazing relics all in a traditional pack and box format."

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What: 2025 Topps Tier One baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 17
Box basics: Two autos and one Relic per four-card box (12 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: A new year of Tier One arrives soon with "no fluff, just hits" -- and with one base card in there each time, too, as it delivers "serious weight" as part of what Topps says is "a high-end dive into the heart of the hobby."

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What: 2025 Pieces X Keepsake trading cards
Arrives: July 7
Box basics: One Keepsake Relic card (auto or memorabilia) and three Keepsake Relics per box (five boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Keepsake once again meshes with Pieces Of The Past for a hybrid release that's one about the hits with a wide array of possibilities and with autographs regularly appearing at the case level.

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What: 2025 Pieces of the Past Inventors Edition trading cards
Arrives: April 8
Box basics: Four memorabilia cards per four-pack box (10 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past focuses on people who invented notable things -- one being basketball creator Dr. James Naismith as seen here -- in a release that meshes memorabilia cards with flashy and colorful modern cardboard, too.

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What: 2024 Pieces X Keepsake trading cards
Arrives: Dec. 16
Box basics: One Keepsake Relic card (auto or memorabilia) and three Keepsake Relics per box (five boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Keepsake meshes with Pieces Of The Past for a hybrid release that's one about the hits with a wide array of possibilities and with autographs regularly appearing at the case level.

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What: 2024 Keepsake Historical Edition trading cards
Arrives: Oct. 23
Box basics: One relic card per light-activated box (five boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Keepsake goes high-end once again with plenty of past and present notables from pop culture, politics and history -- a lineup with more than 100 different subjects and all cards showing the exact items that went into making the cards.

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What: 2024 Pieces of the Past 1800s Kaleidoscope Edition
Arrives: Nov. 20
Box basics: Four hits per four-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
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What's buzz-worthy: This brand revisits the 1800s for a second time -- this one with plenty of foilboard flash -- via a collection packed with history and in some boxes redemptions for complete historical documents will be found.

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What: 2024 Keepsake In My Hand Edition trading cards
Arrives: Sept. 18
Box basics: One relic card per box (five boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Keepsake goes high-end with nothing but handwriting samples from worldwide notables from the past in a release that puts the focus on just a single card in every box.

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What: 2024 Pieces of the Past 1800s Edition
Arrives: May 9
Box basics: Four hits per four-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
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What's buzz-worthy: This brand is back with a stacked lineup of cut autos and other memorabilia cards for a variety of historical figures found in every box.

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What: 2023 Pieces of the Past Historical Edition
Arrives: Oct. 17
Box basics: Three hits per 10-pack box (10 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: This brand returns with a stacked lineup of cut autos and other memorabilia cards for a variety of historical figures found in every box.

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What: 2022 Topps Transcendent Collection baseball cards
Arrives: March 31, 2023
Box basics: 55 autographs and more per box
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Transcendent returns with the familiar lineup of high-end inclusions that will set the stage for deluxe cardboard with a VIP event and more within its 99 boxes ... and this time there's even a new four-card Chrome pack only found here with Reds (above) and a Superfractor every time.

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What: 2023 The Bar 1/1 Cut Autographed Edition trading cards
Arrives: May
Box basics: One autographed 1/1 graded/slabbed The Bar creation per box (three boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: The Bar is back with unique creations in every box this time with a mix of pop culture and historic figures presented with art and autographs.

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What: 2022 Historic Autographs Gilded Age trading cards
Arrives: Feb. 8
Box basics: Available in 21-pack hobby (24 boxes per case), 21-pack retail (20 per) and 251-card vending (10 per)
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What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs looks back into the history books with this one, exploring the post-Civil War America up to 1912 -- an era where the world changed in immense ways.

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What: 2021 Topps Transcendent Collection baseball cards
Arrives: Nov. 24
Box basics: 55 autographs and more per box
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What's buzz-worthy: Transcendent is back once again with the familiar lineup of high-end inclusions that will set the stage for deluxe cardboard with a VIP event and more within its limited boxes.

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What: 2019 The Bar Cuts Edition
Arrives: May 1
Box basics: One slabbed cut autograph per box (10 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Super Break goes with nothing but slabbed cut autographs in this one with signatures from notables around the world in every box -- and one U.S. President auto per case.

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Collectors who are into American history beyond the sports realm have one destination to start with first at the National Sports Collectors Convention at the IX Center in Cleveland.

That spot is the Blowout Cards booth.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down the results here. Like this and want to see more -- or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The packs: 2009 Topps American Heritage (25 blister retail pack lot)
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Packs per lot: 25
Cards per pack: 8
Cards per lot: 200
Base set completion: 92 of 125 (74 percent)
Duplicates: 57
Triplicates: 20
Quadruplicates: 6
Quintuplicates: 2
Sextuplicates: 1

Notables on base cards: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Amelia Earhart, Davy Crockett, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz, Alexander Hamilton, Paul Revere, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Thomas Edison, Samuel Morse, Eli Whitney, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Barbara Rose Johns, Cesar Chavez, Gutzon Borglum, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer, Thurgood Marshall, Robert F. Kennedy, P.T. Barnum, Joe Namath, George & Ira Gershwin, Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, Duke Ellington, Clara Bow, John D. Rockefeller, John Paul Getty, J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, John Deere, Frank Woolworth, Andrew Carnegie, Plymouth Rock, Constitution, George Washington, Louisiana Purchase, Emancipation Proclamation, Neil Armstrong

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