Start: 3/18/2025 12:00 AM EST End: 4/5/2025 9:00 PM EST
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"Goal Line Art" cards are a series of original sports art by Gary Thomas featuring the members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The first series of 30 cards were produced in 1989 and limited to a print run of just 5 000 sets. Those sets sold out the first year. With each new class for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Goal Line Art produces a new set of prints for that class sold by subscription. The full-color 4" x 6" cards are among the most beautiful and highly desirable modern card products of any sport being produced today. The demand for these cards remains very strong both for their beautiful high-quality artwork and printing and also because they are an excellent vehicle for autographs. Many football collectors make the trip to the Hall of Fame each year just to obtain the signatures of the new players. Because the First Series of cards sold out so quickly they are in high demand today extremely difficult to find as complete sets. With each card individually numbered collectors who subscribed to the series in 1989 received the first series box set as a "matched" set with each card numbered with the same serial number. The first six series were produced that way between 1989 and 1994. Beginning in 1995 the company began producing annual supplements containing that year's Hall of Fame induction class a tradition that continues until this day. Complete runs are very difficult to acquire - and very expensive with the retail price of unsigned supplement packs currently priced at $30.00 each. Presented here then is a very difficult set: a complete run of Goal Line Art sets from Series One in 1989 through the 2013 supplement - a full 25 years of Goal Line Art cards. Each year's issue includes its original packaging with one exception (1996 which is missing the retail packaging). One card is missing - the 1996 card of coach Joe Gibbs (an easily remedied problem). Even more astonishing is that 64 of the cards have been autographed by their subjects. This is an exceptional collecting achievement a project undertaken over multiple decades. As one would expect the consignor was more enthusiastic about obtaining autographs early in the run meaning the early series with its difficult subjects have a much higher percentage of cards signed while in many cases the later series packaging has yet to even be opened. As such the supplements from 1999 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2011 2012 and the 25th A