GM!
✅ First breakfast
✅ Research for a sport card hobby article
✅ 4 Mile run
✅ Second breakfast
I guess I can start the day job now 🤷♂️
Some interesting notes from an article about unopened material in 1992 from Tony Galovich:
-A 1953 Topps five-cent baseball wax pack sale for $11k in the summer of 1991.
-A 1954 Topps cello pack with Hank Aaron showing that sold for $25k in the fall of 1991.
-A 1934 Goudey wax pack with Jimmie Foxx on the bottom that sold for $20k in 1992.
-All the 1952 Topps baseball wax packs emerging; including a find of around 800 in Seattle in 1991. He said dealers were paying $5k each for them and that someone had just opened a complete box
-The find of an entire case of 1953 Topps five-cent packs (Canadian variation) a few years earlier.
-The sale of a 1951 Bowman one-cent wax pack for $1,500 "recently."
-The price appreciation of 1961 Topps rack packs going from $600 a few years earlier to $1,500 in 1992.
-A 1967 Topps high-number case selling for >$70,000 and the find of 1961 and 1962 cases.
-The sale of a 1952 Topps high number case eight years earlier for over $200k.
-He shared market prices for the following football products: 1959 Topps vending box-$2,200, 1957 five-cent wax pack-$550, 1964 Philadelphia rack pack-$450, 1984 USFL set case-$30k, 1972 high number wax box-$3,600, 1960 Fleer wax pack-$250, and 1966 Topps wax pack-$325.
-From a basketball side he said that 1957 Topps packs were selling for $1k+ and that he heard of a vending case sale in 1991. He also said 1961 Fleer packs were fetching $500+. Also, 1969 Topps boxes were worth >$5k, with packs being >$500. In 1986, Fleer basketball cases were worth $30k, with the rarer 1987 cases bringing $10k.
-Galovich also talked about how scarce hockey unopened products already were in 1992.
Frank Buck doesn’t give a ….
This is a 1950 Topps Frank Buck’s Bring ‘Em Back Alive One-Cent display box that once held 120 penny packs.
It’s today’s highlight on the blog: https://www.postwarcards.com/1950-topps-frank-bucks-bring-em-back-alive-one-cent-display-box-and-wrapper/
this subtle new animation on the umbrel home site 🤌✨
https://video.nostr.build/b376c0ce2908ff674ff725cba260e4b7649d3a75eb0d0426b86cc1e8a10d3c9b.mp4
Any chance of a 4TB+ hard drive in a future umbrel home?
Tonight's bedtime stories to be brought to you by the June 1983 issue of Sports Cards Magazine #nostalgia
I’m a returnee, send 1000 to the next person :)
Hey #Nostr, got Donruss? This 1981 box is pretty fitting to the community here; it was the company's inaugural release after the break up of the Topps monopoly.
I was scanning some cards to sell later and realized they might just be the perfect vintage insert set for Nostr…Rub-Offs…
Always hunting for “new” items for the hobby library; just spotted some “old” Panini Copa America sticker albums 🤔
Sports Cards!
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Sports Cards!!!
Finished the majority of my 1976/77 Topps Basketball Vending Case research this morning.
The grainy photo is from an April 2006 auction catalog. The case was described as being unopened.
The next photo is from an open case that was sold by Collect Auctions.
The last photo is a 1976 Topps Basketball vending box. It’s from the Fritsch Vault.
Time to go run a few miles.
The 1966 Topps Baseball Uncut Blank-Back Proof Sheet that Mastro sold in 2008 was re-sold by REA in the Spring of 2021 for $2,880…proving, once again, that the hobby is a flat circle.
This week’s (work week) hobby writing goals:
- 1976/77 Topps Basketball Vending Cases
- The Galovich Report on Unopened Material from June 1992
- 1947-66 Exhibit Baseball Cello Boxes
- 1934 Goudey Albums
I’ve mostly been writing short (no >500 word) posts about cards lately for my site, postwarcards.com, but I just found an item that’s going to drive me towards the sort of 2k+ word deep-dives I used to do, an order sheet for 1938 O-Pee-Chee Horror or War cards. #HobbyNerd
Really happy to have had this signed Cal Ripken card in my collection the past few years. Just as happy to have sold it so someone else can enjoy it now too! 