My $30 FB MP 1999 Championship Poster Find

[ElGuapo]

Always on the hunt for interesting UConn finds on marketplace, I picked this up in NJ last week for $30.
I’ve was keeping an eye on it for like a year but had no reason to be in NJ for pickup until something came up last weekend which brought me to the area. And it was still listed so I reached out.
Guy I bought it from was a 1996 St. John’s alum and was happy that I was bringing it home to CT where it belongs.

I remember at the time I didn’t have the money to buy the print so all these years later I finally have one. The framing alone is worth well more than the $30 I paid for it.

 

[ElGuapo]

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Great find!

 

[alexd]

The only good thing that ever came from that ugly stadium.

 

[MTHusky]

The only good thing that ever came from that ugly stadium.

Agreed, it was a dump!

 

[dog bone]

I have a poster or framed pic from every NC except 1999. I think I saw this when I was searching many years ago. Just not a lot of stuff for the 1999 championship.

 

[Dove]

KEA at the line?

 

[Excalibur]

I've had that shot framed in my home office for 20+ years.

 

[ElGuapo]

I have a poster or framed pic from every NC except 1999. I think I saw this when I was searching many years ago. Just not a lot of stuff for the 1999 championship.

I remeber this artist and stadium panoramic style was all the rage around then and into the 2000s.
But pricing was kind of stupid and I had a poster framing addiction and wall space issue already for 1990's Phish band posters of the shows I went to.
So for this to circle back all these years later was very cool.
This one just doesn't come up anywhere so I had to wait for a trip to New Jersey to finally jump on it.
Thankfully it was still available after all that time.

 

[Kathy]

Been working on going through all my UConn stuff to display. Lots more to go

 

[ElGuapo]

Been working on going through all my UConn stuff to display. Lots more to go

I love UConn shrines.
That is great!

Seeing the other panoramics has be thinking that mine has a whole lot more going on behind the mat and framing.
The added brass plate is interesting so I wonder if it was done by the framer or came that way from the artist.
The closest one I can find online to mine is this one on Etsy.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1834280198/1999uconn-huskies-vs-duke-blue-devil

Either way, still very cool to finally own.
And what a nice collection you have going on.

 

[geordi]

In early 1999, I asked Jim Calhoun for an autographed basketball. On the day we were driving to Tampa, the ball arrived. Absent mindedly, I tossed the ball in the trunk. I still think that, to this day, on that night after the championship game, I could have sold it for $10,000. (I still have it, of course.)

 

[Kathy]

I love UConn shrines.
That is great!

Seeing the other panoramics has be thinking that mine has a whole lot more going on behind the mat and framing.
The added brass plate is interesting so I wonder if it was done by the framer or came that way from the artist.
The closest one I can find online to mine is this one on Etsy.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1834280198/1999uconn-huskies-vs-duke-blue-devil

Either way, still very cool to finally own.
And what a nice collection you have going on.

Thanks - many years of collecting, some were gifts like the 1999 panorama - my nephew gave it to my husband in 2009, I think he found it at a flea market.
The seaglass Husky dog was done by my son and a Christmas gift in 2020