What: 2023 Pieces of the Past One-time Edition Series 1
Arrives: Feb. 15
Box basics: One Pieces of the Past card per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past once again turns to the hit-per-box approach with document and memorabilia cuts as well as more unusual card embeds as you can see above.

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What: 2023 Pieces of the Past Art & Music Edition
Arrives: January 2023
Box basics: Two hits per four-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past once focuses on pop culture with a celebration of artwork from the past and then the names and faces of music and more among more recent years in both cuts, original artwork and more.

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What: 2022 Pieces of the Past One-time Edition Series 2
Arrives: Dec. 7
Box basics: At least one Pieces of the Past card per box (11 boxes per case -- 10 standard and one with at least a 5-by-7 card or 1/1 The Bar cut auto)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past once again takes on a hits-only approach with some big-time ink, big memorabilia and more inside these hit-per-box creations.

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What: 2022 Pieces of the Past Presidential Edition
Arrives: November
Box basics: One Two Pieces of the Past card per box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past takes on a hits-only approach for past presidents -- and a few others such as Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin -- in a release coming this fall.

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What: 2022 Pieces of the Past Historical Jumbo Edition
Arrives: July 18
Box basics: Four hits per 12-back box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past takes on a big approach with more than 100 subjects, plenty of hits and even hot boxes appearing one per case.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Gale Sayers, Road Warrior Animal, big breaks and inside five cases of Pieces of The Past cards.

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"The Chase for Jefferson" is almost here.

This Friday makes the arrival of 2020 Super Break Pieces of the Past Series 1 and perhaps the biggest part of this release isn't the history or the unique cardboard and memorabilia included ... it's the reward if you collect 'em all.

The first person to build a master set for this product and contact the company will receive the Thomas Jefferson 1/1 cut autograph seen above, while the second person to create the master set will receive 24 cases of Pieces of the Past products (two per month, past and future releases) for a year.

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 8 in 8 -- a series of a eight breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in as many hours today. We'll post one every hour ... this is Hour 4.

The box: 2018 Super Break Pieces of The Past Hybrid Edition trading cards
The cost: Click here

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

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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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Super Break's Pieces of the Past line has helped fans of history and pop culture take a trip through time with standard trading cards featuring presidents and other notables as well as some cardboard creations that are not the norm.

One example? Pieces of the Past Relics that use pieces of signed documents as a memorabilia swatch -- they're similar but different. They're definitely unusual and often also affordable -- but some can command good cash from interested collectors, too.

In previous editions, that lineup was bolstered by stamp cards, news clippings and other surprises but in its latest edition -- the Hybrid Edition -- those things can be found together on cards along with a number of other potential finds with three memorabilia cards in every box.

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Today's highly anticipated release of the JFK files -- the previously classified documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 -- are sure to be a holiday of sorts for conspiracy theorists and are sure to pique the curiosity of history buffs and presidential-minded people.

But the life of the 35th president has prompted plenty of cardboard appearances over the years, too, far beyond just the tragedy of that November day in Dallas, Texas.

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The National Sports Collectors Convention is nearly here and the months of preparation are culminating in the show of all shows for sports collectors for five days in Chicago.

There will be plenty to see, plenty to do and plenty to buy and Buzz has been watching the developments the whole way. We'll have galleries of images from the show floor and a few nuggets here and there in the coming days but there's already been plenty written leading up to the show that you can all find right here.

Here's a rundown of all past NSCC stories here on The Buzz ...

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