Gold - regular retail packs
Silver - factory sets - also known as Mickey Mantle Cereal Box cards as the factory set was issued in what looked like small cereal boxes featuring Mantle.
Hope it has a mix of semistars in addition to the big names. That was always one of my favorite parts of Fan Favorites, especially for picking up graphs of guys on your hometeam that don't appear in sets all that often.
The set would sell for much more as singles.
"33 of the cards are either serial numbered #1 or #60, including a #5 serial numbered card for Albert Pujols -- his jersey number."
How can a card #5/60 be included in cards numbered #1/60 and #60/60?
My little superstition, but if I bust a box of cards before a big game, if I pull a nice card of a guy who is playing in that game, then that team is going to win. Seems like it happens all the time to me.
Bought a $15 value box at lunch today, not expecting much. Now I'm believing the...
Donruss used to do it right... put a picture of the actual item the swatch of material comes from, and identify the year it was used. Donruss made some great GU cards in the 2001-2004 era. One example:
I love GU when it can be identified to the original item. I've stopped buying virtually...
Looks good to me. Look for paper stock, aging, reprint copyright lines on back, size. Printing wasn't too crisp on these, and yours looks like standard Goudey quality with the right amount of toning for a 75+ year old card.
My Rabbit...
Lots of interesting Fleer liquidation proof sheets coming up for auction lately. These were Fleer file copies that were sold at auction. They are paper proofs of cards sent to MLB for approval.
Most the sheets I've seen were for issued sets. But I thought these proofs were very cool...
Well, the highlight of the National for me was meeting Don Zimmer and getting him to sign his 1948 Western Hills (Cincinnati, OH) High School Yearbook. Zim got a kick out of looking through it and seeing several of the photos from his youth. This is from his Junior Year. He was a 3-sport star...
Should be pretty easy to tell if it's a decal or not. Run your fingernail up to the edge of the smaller image. If you feel any sort of edge, it's a decal and not printing on the card.
I think the decals were printed on clear vinyl which would allow you to see some of the card background.
The...
The small bottom image doesn't happen to be a sticker, does it? There were 1969 stickers that a kid might have stuck on his 1968 card.
Scans would definitely help.
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