First Buzz: 2022 Historic Autographs Gilded Age (updated)

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.

Keep reading for more information.

The Basics: "This period ... featured rapid industrialization, minimal regulation and opulent Society gilding over political corruption, unemployment and crushing poverty," read the company reveal. "See what life was really like during this time. Meet the robber barons, see where they lived and how they got so so rich. Learn about Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Hearst, Ford, Rockefeller, Pullman cars, Boss Tweed, The Gibson Girls, Edison vs. Tesla, bloody labor strikes and scandals and so much more." ... Among the inclusions here beyond base cards and parallels from a base set will be buybacks, Written Word relics, Autographs, Shipwreck relics, Dirt relics, 1/1 artist sketch cards, fabric and button cards, single- and dual-DNA cards, 5th Avenue Mansion lenticular cards, Portraits and Victorian Pinups. ... There also will be 
"21st Packs" in play that will have an alternative-design base set with eight Aurora parallels -- in retail those will be Emerald (/32), Ruby (/16), Garnet (/8) and Topaz (/2) and in hobby those will be Sapphire (/32), Amethyst (/16), Zircon (/8) and Peridot (/2). There also will be 21st document relics and Autographs. ... Among the possible autographs are Ty Cobb, John D. Rockefeller, Jenny Lind, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edison, Jacob Riis, The Vanderbilts, Queen Victoria, Horace Greeley, P.T. Barnum and a few American presidents including Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, William Howard Taft and William McKinley. ... Differences between hobby and retail and approximate odds on hits were not detailed in advance.

Update (Jan. 21): According to Historic, "The big hits such as Autograph Cuts, SS Atlantic Shipwreck relics, tobacco card buybacks and DNA hair cards are in both the hobby and retail at the same pull rate." Beyond that, the hobby version has Victorian pin-ups inserts and the 21st Pack has its four color variations, J.P. Morgan Written Word and autograph cards. Retail has Victorian Portrait inserts and the 21st Pack has its variations as well as the Nathan Rothschild Written Word and autograph cards.

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