This one is mine, pardon the mess.
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This one is mine, pardon the mess.
Oh I remember that. I have about 30 complete sets of the 1983 Topps Stickers and there were tons of those dedicated to the Brewers/Cardinals World Series the year before It was not until the Pilots/Brewers opened up their checkbook and hired Kirby that they finally won it.
Apparently removing the protective coating does not hurt the value of Finest cards which is good since I have a 1996-97 Finest Kobe Bryant RC dup without the film. I have one in my near complete bronze set with the coating as well. When I got home from the garage sale where I bought the Kobe without the film, I thought I got ripped off and almost went back and demanded my dollar back that I paid for it. Had I had Greta or Joe Biden with me for back up, I would have gone back. LMAO
That card is kicking around here somewhere in a top loader and soft sleeve and it needs to go with my other Kobe RCs. I'll find it when I'm looking for something completely unrelated to it.
Remember when the coating was a very thin piece of plastic? Now it's super thick and rigid. They may think people aren't going to take it off but if the print on it covers the whole card I'd rather take it off. At first I thought I was peeling the top layer of card off! And it's extra sticky now and leaves a haze on the card you gotta spend 15 minutes cleaning off. Probably won't be getting many of those because 1. The print on the protective plastic, 2. How hard it is to get off, and 3. The cleaning of the card when you do finally get it off.
Yeah i have no idea. I knew you'd like it though as it was a food issue, there were a bunch of other hockey items that we've sold recently too, and one the the more interesting was this set
https://5starcards.com/card/1952-r423-oak-perforated-vic-lynn-perforated-vg-ex-4-120680612
This is one tge store's website.
It's not what you know... but WHO you know..... thanks, Jeff!!
Michael Jordan 1992-93 Topps All-Star Gold
Michael Jordan 1992-93 Topps All-Star Gold
Someone mentioned this checklist, maybe Jeff.........Centering isn't to good but it's mine and will be until I'm dead and bloated (STP reference there).......
NICE!!! That is a bear to get unmarked ad undamaged. A little off center but it sure qualifies as one of the hard to get ones. That card is such a tough find in decent condition, that I knew the card # without looking it up. i cannot tell you the card # of the Schmidt RC (#612 maybe?) but that checklist number I know by heart.
Update: The Schmidt RC is #615. I would not have bet my life on that number (which I got wrong) but would have on the checklist #.
The MJS is always off center and my Nolan Ryan is WAY off...........The '73 was the first set I built from pack busting as a youngster..........The paper route, grass cutting and snow shovelling helped finance my addiction; Grandma was a big help too............Plus trading with friends............
1986 fleer mini canseco rc
!973 Topps was the first set I built as well. I very well remember cards from the mid 60s to ealty 70s as I was collecting them. However my dad threw all my cards away when we moved to a different town. I had really not done much with cards in 1971 or 1972 so he figured I was out of that childish phase. Little did he know. LOL
I'd like to say he threw away PSA 10 Ryan and Seaver RCs but that would not be true. The cards that hit the dump were in "well loved" condition. I'd arrange them into teams, positions, take them on the bus and trade with the other kids so they would probably grade out today as "PSA crap". LOL
But I caught the nostalgia bug in 1973 and kept up with the current year cards but mainly bought collections at garage sales and ads my brothers and I put in the local Pennysaver. I really focused on working backwards as I wanted to get all those discarded cards back which I did 100 fold. I had an 8 year head start since no one really collected cards until 1981. That is an 8 year stretch of buying then worthless cards for pretty much pennies with zero competition from other buyers.
And one of the reasons checklists like that 1973 are so hard to get is because dumb @$$es like me marked them I probably did that through 1977 until I brightened up and stopped doing that and replaced the ones I had defaced.
Yours is nicer than the one in my set thats for sure. Mines unmarked too but way off center both ways. Killed me to pay 30 bucks for a checklist back then.
I agree……. Picking them up back then was more economical than today……..I quit collecting in ‘84 (military) and started again in ‘01……..Immediately started the vintage collection rolling………Even back then it was easy and cheaper to pick up stars and high #’s…….Now I’m lucky t get 25 a year, if that…….Don’t need as many either, especially the big $$ names except Seaver RC and Rose RC………Probably go graded with those two, PSA 6’s maybe…….
Know another guy that is extremely generous (or sympathetic) towards this Cowboys fan! Thanks Jeff² from the middle of Illinois!
Bob Lilly '24 Leaf Sports Heroes Auto 4/4
Bob Lilly '24 Leaf Sports Heroes Auto 4/4
I'd prefer to think both!!
Cowboys vs Colts today at noon!! Gotta feeling this is Hunter Luepke's time to shine!!
Jake Reed was one of my favorite Vikings ever.
