National Rippage
Nikklos
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Well they pulled me back in.
I had been put to pasture by the vile ripping pack breaks industry that degenerates like me unfortunately helped to spawn. But was by my buddies Terry and Paul’s booth and decided to rip a couple of vintage packs on the spot.
Fellow board member KGibson has video of the event so if he would like to post fire away. Otherwise I’m still in retirement of posting results!
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What did you rip?
https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/opening-a-1979-80-opc-hockey-box-at-the-national/
Hockey rippage.
Woah. A whole box of 1979opc.
What a great box.
Geez, that is not a box I would ever dream of ripping, but thanks for sharing the results.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
I think I saw this video last night? Gretsky pulled in last pack right?
ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240
Uffdah!!
Was that the box you bought Chris?
If so - glad you pulled the RC on the "last" pack!
Welcome back Chris!
Dave
No, Chris's box has one pack with Gretzky showing on back.
His box also got more valuable, lol..
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
I assume you have to squat a bit when you walk due to the large size of your marbles.
Chris was a core poster on here when I first started posting. His tips were pretty epic.
Glad to see you back!
I saw this guy opening. I was glad he pulled it out in the last pack. It was slightly like watching a car wreck based on the treatment of the non-gretzky cards though. Almost half the set has no PSA 10 and also single digit 9's. Zooming right past the Mike Bossy's, Gordy Howe's, and Bobby Clark RC (among others)...Seems like grading everything that is a potential 9 would be the only way to support the cost of the box even though it may have been for "fun".
The gum was likely taken out by the guy that was opening the packs for him as in the article. There were many nice cards he passed up as he was only hunting the great one. Enough spectators were watching this also as it happened right at PSA's table.
I think it was a legit pack where at least Gretzky was indeed found inside because the order surrounding it seems to closely align the 3 cards previous to him. Vintage Breaks recently pulled a very awesome Gretzky RC (real shot 8-9+) from a PSA pack. Check out the coalition around the Gretzky, but backwards. VB opened the pack face down and this guy face up.
This is the guy opening from the article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=130&v=qNruArbVB3A
Perhaps the gum was stuck underneath the cards?
I think this may be the case, stuck to back card (a few on youtube similar to this example) OR the assistant guy pulled the gum for him who was opening all of the packs. I did not see any gum easily visible on the table but there were trashes nearby. I showed up to that "break" towards the end and saw the last 5 or so packs already laid out ready to view from the guy helping him. There were quite a few people around before I came in astonishment of the sight of this being opened so I do not think it was staged. Also the coalition of the pack seemed very closely aligned to the Vintage Break psa Gretzky pull video I included above. The condition of the cards that I saw on the table also looked like fresh OPC and I have already stated I thought the guy was careless with them which was a car wreck to watch.
According to the OP (the apparent box ripper), "Fellow board member KGibson has video of the event so if he would like to post fire away. Otherwise I’m still in retirement of posting results!"
Wait for the full video to be posted in that case.
No no. The original post got hijacked - which I guess it deserved to be due to my lack of info. I just ripped a measly 1972 wax and 1975 wax pack!
Nice pull for 150 bananas.
Here's Nik's video
Thanks Mike for posting that for me. I guess I thought I was more tech savvy than I am. I will send you the other pack rip for you to post also.
You're welcome Kevin.
I'm not a genie or anything.
All I did was put your video thru youtube and then here.
And video #2:
Thanks Kevin and Mike!
You're welcome and you're a good sport!
Thanks for sharing! That was a fun watch.
hey chris it was nice to see you again buddy next time we have to go out and get some drinks and food its always great to watch you rip those packs thanks again for the business
Thanks tou and Paul, Terry! We definitely have to grab a drink. Don’t know why we never thought of that!
Because you were waiting for CPAMike to join you. See what happens when I turn my back on you.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
Collecting:
Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
geesh what were we thinking we all do need to get together its just hard sometimes with all of the invites and events going on after the show but have to plan it for sure