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I bought several bulk boxes recently for a great deal. Included in the boxes were a good deal of Star Wars cards. Non-sports stuff is something I've not really dabbled in.

Some of the cards have easy card numbers for searching. There are only so many cards TP-4, BP-6 etc. But the base cards are proving a challenge to find. If they are a character, those seem easy to find, but I'm really not doing well on base cards that use a description for the title (for example card 11, titled Creatures in the Castle etc). 

Searching for card 11 will return thousands of cards, the cards dont generally seem to have dates on them to help filter.

Any hints for how to find these cards or narrow my search, or is it just going to be brute force?

Thanks

This may help...........In the upper left corner click "browse", go to " non-sport" and click on that. Click on sets. Underneath the years will be the alphabet. Click on "s" and go down to "Star Wars". Hope this helps.......... 

Might help to search eBay or COMC first to figure out the sets, then pull them up here to log/see the other cards from the same set.

I just searched for "creatures in the castle" on COMC and only got 2 hits: https://www.comc.com/Cards,=creatures+in+the+castle (both of the same card design, too. One is just SN'ed).

if the names and card filter tips from the FAQ don’t work then i do the long route which was mentioned: find the card on comc or ebay and hope the set details are sufficient.

you can also try scanning with the collx app to identify.

This approach helps me identify misc non sports challenges as well

Mark

Thanks everyone. I did not realize COMC had non sports as well. I only ever use it to try and find photos to figure out which one of the parallel versions I have when the SN option doesn't work.

Doing the search there at least gets me the set identified and from there it is pretty quick.

If it's named correctly in our database, you can click on "Advanced" at the top and enter the text in the "Name" field. I just tested a search of this "Crime-Crazed City!" card and it returned all four.

Happy to try to help. I have a pretty sizeable collection of non-sports cards. Before I make a recommendation, can I ask what challenge, specifically, you're facing?

To clarify:

• Are you struggling to identify the set to which specific cards belong?
• Are you able to find the base set, but struggling to find the insert or parallel set to which cards belong?
• Are you completely at a loss for a couple of specific cards or groups of cards from the lot?

I can help with any of the above and would be happy to help you ID cards if the third bullet is the case. Let me know, happy to assist.