Gravure Idol: Anri Sugihara autographs

I have made many purchases recently in different areas of my hobbies. I have become more serious with my aquariums, selling off some of my Mattingly cards and putting the money into savings and took up reading.

Today I am sharing the Anri Sugihara autographed cards I purchased in the last two years. She is a former Japanese Gravure Idol (model) that I decided to try and collect. These are all of Anri's autos that I have. Most of these autos have ranged between $10-$40. The following are types of cards that are released long with sets at around same time. Ryan gave me a better summary of what each type of card is. I will update this page as I buy more.

2012 Hit's Event Privilege 01
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2012 Hit's Event Privilege 02


2012 Hit's Event Privilege 03
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2012 Hit's Event Privilege 04
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2012 Hit's Shop Campaign


2012 Hit's Shop Campaign Kiss & Auto


2012 Hit's Event Privilege 01
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2012 Hit's Event Privilege 02
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2012 Hit's Event Privilege 03
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2012 Hit's Event Privilege 04


2012 Hit's Internet Privilege Kiss Auto


2012 Hit's Internet Privilege


2013 Hit's Box Privilege 01
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2013 Hit's Box Privilege 02
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2013 Hit's Box Privilege 03
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2013 Hit's Event Privilege 01
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2013 Hit's Event Privilege 02
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2013 Hit's Event Privilege 03
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2013 Hit's Shop Campaign 01


2013 Hit's Shop Campaign 02


2013 Hit's Shop Campaign 03


2013 Hit's Platinum Distribution Privilege


2013 Hit's Platinum Event Privilege 01


2013 Hit's Platinum Event Privilege 02


2013 Hit's Platinum Box Privilege 01
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2013 Hit's Platinum Box Privilege 02
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2013 Hit's Platinum Internet Privilege 01
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2013 Hit's Platinum Box Privilege 03


2013 Hit's Platinum Photo & Autograph 01 /60


2013 Hit's Platinum Photo & Autograph 02 /60


2013 Hit's Platinum Shop Campaign A


2013 Hit's Platinum Shop Campaign B


2014 Hit's Internet Event Privilege 01
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2014 Hit's Internet Event Privilege 02


2014 Hit's Internet Reservation Privilege


2014 Hit's Shop Campaign A


2015 Deep Reservation Privilege 01


2015 Deep Reservation Privilege 02 Kiss & Auto


2016 Hit's LAST Shop Campaign A


2016 Hit's LAST Shop Campaign B


2016 Hit's LAST Shop Campaign C Kiss & Auto

JCM62: 1949 Football Back menko

In the past few months I have picked up a lot of Japanese menkos on several websites. For those who are not very privy to menkos, they are vintage Japanese miniature cards named after their backs. In this post, the design of the backs resemble a football so it's aptly named "Football Back." This process was done by Gary Engel. Gary released a menko catalog called "Japanese Baseball Card Checklist and Price Guide" and Dave has covered menkos in great detail in numerous posts. You can buy the price guide through Prestige Collectibles here.

What I love about this menko set, and many others I hope to cover, are the illustrations of the players on the cards. What's even cooler is that sometimes the illustrated backs are just as awesome. At the time of this post I have seven cards from this set with several more to go. In this set, the player is illustrated on the front with the player's last name in cursive. The backs have no illustrations, but have a single card number in the middle and a random, five-digit number in the bottom center. Some card numbers are repeated. I think these card numbers might be jersey numbers. I put these cards in order of jersey/card number, not the random, five-digit number Gary uses to put them in oroder in his catalogue. I may change it later to match. I feel the colors pop on these, especially when they are in better condiiton. Please note that I edited these card scans so they appear more presentable for viewing.

In Engel's price guide, he gives a description of the fronts and backs of every set. Many of the sets can have similar looking fronts and backs and he does his best to describe them. I will update this post as I acquire more of the cards.

25030 #18 Jiro Noguchi

27640 #16 Tetsuharu Kawakami

32955 #23 Tokuji Iida

38005 #3 Makoto Kozuru

40790 #21 Susumu Yuki

44602 #5 Shinpei Ichii

50505 #23 Noboru Aota

52000 #3 Shigeru Chiba

53200 #15 Shigeaki Kuroo

60520 #2 Keizo Tsutsui

60843 #17 Hideo Fujimoto

67850 #10 Fumio Fujimura

70029 #19 Shissho Takesue

70783 #4 Torao Ooka

79905 #25 Kaoru Betto

82560 #28 Kenjiro Tamiya

83320 #15 Michio Nishizawa

85070 #19 Takeshi Doigaki

(NEED) 90044 #29 Takehiko Bessho

90550 #30 Kazuto Tsuruoka

2018 Vittum Foreign Attack set update #2

I received the remainder of my 2018 sets from my friend in the States and to my surprise the card stock was not what I ordered. If you have received the 2018 set, it is not what I requested to be printed. I despise that UV coating they have on there. I have been exchanging emails with the company and will exchange a few more to make sure the sets are produced and cut correctly. I will then do the process all over again regarding shipping. So assuming everything goes smoothly, everyone will have both the correct and incorrect KBO sets for 2018. Sorry for the inconvenience. This was very upsetting for me because I will have to spend more of my money on this due to the company's error.

2018 Vittum Foreign Attack set update

For all of those who bought a 2018 set, my friend received the sets from the printer and should be shipping them out soon. For those of you in Korea and Japan, they will be shipped to me then I will ship to you.

I am also hoping to finish the 2019 set sometime this year and will keep you updated on that set. I was getting a lot of it done over vacation and school being pushed back due to COVID-19, but school (online teaching) has started up here and I have a little less time.