Pnna Spring Convention Tukwila, Wa

I was a little underwhelmed. I enjoyed last year in Portland, but the gym is just a little small for the # of tables. Dealers have less room, so they brought less STUFF or overcrowded their tables.

Also found the dealer-to-dealer traffic annoying. If you are going to sit down and do business, that's fine. But don't take up the entire space. If you have one case covered up with the material you are trading fine, don't cover the second of three with your notebook and block the rest of the space with your fat fanny. Or if you do, don't give me the stink eye because I dare to look at what's for sale.

Finally found that only 2 or 3 dealers bothered to greet customers. I've found the Texas shows a lot more personal, maybe just because everyone has to wear name tags.

BUT: I did find an absolutely amazing 3CS die crack, practically a shattered die:


So I ended the day pretty happy.

It could also be a horrible microscope shot, badly lit with a flashlight and through the plastic of the 2x2. And I had to size it down and lower the jpg quality a lot to fit in 100K. I was going to spend some time getting a better shot, then we'll see.

Just got home. Extremely HOT and muggy there! But other than that I had a fantastic time! Went both Sat/Sun. Scoped out some things on Sat...picked up a few things today.

1925 Canadian 1c Brown/a lil' Lustre 2x2 said AU I think MS
1935 Canadian 1c Stunning Lustre Red/Brown MS Beauty

Filled the long awaited gap with:

1928 Large S Wheat. MS-63RB - Only one there as far as I could find (and I looked through a bunch!)

My wife surprised me and bought me a 1931-S PCGS MS-64BN Toned beauty! Bought it before we got there, paid for it while I was staring through a loupe, (I had no idea) and gave it to me Saturday night at dinner. Upgrade from my VF! Totally stunned me.

Cherry picked some bins for my canadian 1c & nickel collection. All in all I had a great time. Looking forward to October.