congrats on finally getting the card, Still trying to get one myself & also last seasons Bolasie Premier gold auto card :wallbash: have both the Ledley & Puncheon cards

Some new cards to mention briefly, albeit most not 'strictly' Palace

Panini (USA) Spectra collection - Ledley and Hennessey in the base set, numerous colour variations if that is your thing. Very similar style to Prism. Also die cut cards (with variants) of both of the above. Benteke card 'swatch' (bit of a shirt) also with variants. Spectra came out early Nov. The cards are great quality, really thick and great sparkly effects

Panini (USA) 'NOIR' collection - a bit more of a 'fancily designed' collection - prob trying to compete with Futera on style alone! Numerous different premium Benteke cards, jersey patches, dual jersey patches and autos. Noir supposedly out 7 Dec

I get the feeling that Benteke will be featured in just about ever 'premium' collection from now on, as has been the case the last few years already


Topps Premier Gold put back to the very end of the year

As mentioned above, there are numerous Benteke jersey and auto cards from before he became a Palace player eg Futera and Flawless.

Topps Now - Topps issue 3 cards each Monday which relate to big moments in the previous weekends Prem games, only available to order for 24hrs so you have to remember to check each Monday. Apparently every Prem club will be featured at least once (Palace not yet)
As you might imagine, Burnley (Ashley Barnes) and Swansea (Llorente) have already been featured for their last minute winners
Sadly Topps Now wasn't up and running when we won in the last minute at Sunderland!

Topps -Merlin premier league stickers 2017

69. Club Emblem (Crystal Palace) - Foil
70. Team Photo (Crystal Palace)
71. Team Photo (Crystal Palace)
72. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) - Superstar
73. Steve Mandanda (Crystal Palace)
74. Martin Kelly (Crystal Palace)
75. Joel Ward (Crystal Palace)
76. Scott Dann (Crystal Palace)
77. James Tomkins (Crystal Palace)
78. Andros Towsend (Crystal Palace)
79. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace)
80. Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace)
81. Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace)
82. Loic Remy (Crystal Palace)
83. Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace)
84. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace)

Topps stadium club premier league (release date 21st Dec)

17 Zaha
40 Dann
55 Speroni
62 Puncheon
96 Benteke

CS-5 Speroni

Goal-5 Benteke

TM-20 Zaha

Auto's
55 Speroni
96 Benteke

CO-Auto's
CA-ST0 Speroni/Tomkins

Dignitary Auto
DA-CB Benteke

Thanks John, good work.
Do remember to keep an eye out on Monday afternoons/evening for Topps Now cards - at some point this season Palace will have at least one card (we have to do something significant of course!)

More chance of getting a Benteke 'dignitary auto' card than ever getting his autograph on a matchday, the guy never signs!!!

EDIT - just had a look on the cartophilic info exchange for the stadium club collection (which doesn't have as much info as you!) and the Benteke card is him in a Liverpool shirt. Grrrrrr WTF!!!!

Have to admit I'm a little surprised that the 'Merlin' Premier League sticker album still gets made.

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/OTA1WDcwNQ..._id=880000500F

When I was a kid, football sticker collections were a massive part of school life. However I have a son who is 7, and for him and his peers its all about Match Attax cards. I don't know anyone who buys the stickers.

Of course when its the World Cup or the Euros, the Panini Album is widely collected - their enormous distribution of the albums and free stickers ensures that (like a drug dealer giving away a free first sample LOL!)

I do wonder if the sticker album is largely just oldies keeping up a collection year after year, as I can't believe many kids do the stickers over the card sets around these days

apologies, wrong forum

Looks like our card & sticker collecting is about to become cheaper in the future when we drop out of the Premiership this season, just cant see us getting out of this slump:wallbash:

Agree, although can keep myself busy through next season slowly catching up with the ones I haven't got yet from this year. Will be weird buying all those rare Benteke cards when he's left us though.

This is the Premier Portraits silver framed card from Premier Gold BTW. It's very thick and heavy. Nice card.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/m...pszondcyor.jpg

My apologies if already mentioned, but i just looked this set up on line and it also has a 'stadium ambience card'. Card is number 5.

Cheers SM, good spot!

^these stickers are now available to order individually from the 'missing stickers' service if you don't want to do the whole collection.

https://www.toppsdirect.com/merlin-p...r-service.html

with free postage :)


EDIT-

Another collection to keep an eye out for on ebay.com - Panini (USA) Select Soccer. Features Hennessey and Ledley base cards and a Benteke jersey card. All in multiple 'parallel' colour versions (I've given up on those sort of parallels now!). None represented as Palace players in their picture to be fair

Match attax 16/17
collection's from India & Russia
42.Hennessey
43.Souare
44.Ward
45.Dann
46.Delaney
47.Zaha
48.Puncheon
49.Townsend
50.Wickham
51.Benteke
206.Cabaye (star player)
226. Badge

Also, i've heard a collection from Vietnam, waiting for some of those cards to arrive to me

I got quite a few of the Indian version ones from a contact in China. In previous season have got Russian ones, and this year there is a Brazillian version too. Hard to get too excited to be honest as the differences are in the main very subtle, sometimes as small as having different card numbers.

The 13/14 Poca Chips version of the Match Attax cards were good though to be fair, very different indeed.

Regarding this Selhurst card, I do believe that it's from the 2016 Premier Gold set,hence why i didn't list it in the Topps Premier stadium club set

Yes sorry, I was getting mixed up.

The only card still needed from the India set is 206 Cabaye (star player),Still waiting details on the Vietnam set, sure my contact said only four cards for Palace ?
Alan, did you get the 2016 Stadium club Benteke Dignitary Auto card in the end ?

It's David, not got the Benteke Dignitary auto yet, a few gaps to be honest, but had Bolton replay and Man City to pay for (each x 3 tickets). No massive rush as have got a few Benteke auto cards now from different sets. Might get one in a few weeks if there's one at a fair price. Currently at about $50 plus postage so with the exchange rate, not desperate yet.

My mistake David :o, had two tabs open posting in another fourm :wallbash:, back and forth and got in a muddle .
Managed to get a Benteke Dignitary, there's been 2-3 of them listed in the past few weeks, BUT...got the dreaded Royal Mail grey card through the post....Customs !!, an extra £11 to pay( even though £8 was for handling), did ask the seller to put a low value on the customs envelope to avoid such fees, but looks like he didn't or just didn't put the right postage on it.
Haven't heard anything yet if Topps Match Attax extra coming out
Have also agreed with a seller for a Benteke silver framed

I'd be amazed if there isn't the extra series, Topps pay good money for the right to do Premier League cards. Expect Allardyce and the new signings, plus one of either Julian or Steeeeeve.

By some miracle haven't had a customs card this year, all the sellers have been good as gold for me.

Did wonder if there were also gold framed 1/1's, but not seen any yet

Panini Road to the World Cup sticker collection due out April 12th. Should be half the France squad to collect!

Am hopeful that later today we might see the first Palace 'Topps Now' card (Benteke scores @ Bournemouth). Just on the basis it would be the prime Palace subject for Topps to feature and a rare opportunity to do a Palace card based on the recent dearth of positive Palace results (they said they would do at least one card per team over the season)

Edit: still 3 'blank back' Stadium Club cards as BIN's on ebay. Looking at some of the nice Sakho cards produced recently by Futera too. Expensive business signing all these international stars!