TriStar Collectors Show

This was an especially important show for me. I had been going to TriStar shows since the early 90's with my own Dad, so vending at my first one was a cool experience. Outside of The National, TriStar was my first nationally known recurring show.

Historically, TriStar was a mix of memorabilia, autograph appearances, wax, vintage and modern. Today it offers a good mix of vintage and modern, but the memorabilia aspect has steadily decreased over the years, minus a few long-time vendors. The autograph guests are still a big draw. The NRG arena is an easy drive for us, so that too was a nice luxury versus what we are used to with Katy, Rosenberg and Conroe.

Working the booth was messy. I set up Thursday by myself, with Grayson in class. Friday, Grayson had a school basketball game and came late, and on the Saturday he and Dalton had to swap spots as he had another event.

The show was incredibly busy and all of my PSA Mantles sold — the biggest being a 1953 PSA 7 that sold for nearly $30k. We did over $50k in sales for the weekend for the first time.

Major pickups on Sunday were a PSA 10 Shohei Ohtani auto, a $20k lot of raw case hits, and the 2020 Optic Brady Super Bowl Downtown PSA 10 for $11k — the first of four we'd own this year.