1968 Topps baseball wax pack
rmilin
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How many of you actually bought a 1968 Topps baseball wax pack for 5 cents like I did? In fact I must of bought 20 wax packs for a total of 1 dollar. Most of you bought junk was for 35 cents a pack and its still worth 35 cents my packs worth $500 a piece. I bought $10,000 dollars worth of wax for a buck that must be some kind of record don't you think?
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Do you still have them?
Not even close to a record, even if only considering PSA message board/forum members. There are many of us that opened 1986 Fleer basketball back in the day when it was cheap and considered junk. Take a look at current pack prices on those babies!
My neighbor bought 2 boxes of 1986 Fleer Basketball in 1986 for about $10 a piece. They are worth more than your packs now. I think he broke your record. (He actually still has one of the boxes unopened)
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Dont rip them, they probably have fake Mantles in them.
That’s the whole point as to why they are so valuable now — almost everybody in 1968 opened those packs!
I doubt you have even a single pack from 1968.
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.
Least interesting troll in a while.
Can I buy a high grade Koosman rookie off ya to get signed?
one wax pack for each cat?
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
No I dont have them I opened them back in 1968 but at least I bought them you never did that was the point I was making. You are from the junk wax area you bought junk while I was buying gold see the difference?
You put yours in the spokes of your bike and we put ours in plastic pages. See the difference?
Hint: I’m not referring to differences in punctuation which I’m pretty sure they also had in 1968.
Some great posts on this thread. Never a dull moment following this one.
Do you consider 70’s “junk wax”? Because that’s the age of most of the people on here.
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I'm 43. I grew up in the junk.wax era. And I loved it. I still have them all. I've recently been grading and reselling the ones I don't want. Just sold a Jordan insert for $500. I mean, value wise it's no Joe DiMaggio auto, but ill take it.
This thread has me baffled. Whats the point?
Somebody bought packs of cards back in 1968 (I didn’t realize people walked the earth way back then). I think the point was those packs would have been valuable had he kept them unopened, unlike people who grew up in the junk wax era whose packs would still be worthless if left unopened. However, the end result is both are worthless. Poor to VG 1968 commons are worth about as much as 1989 Donruss commons in mint condition.
The OP has had one heck of a fiery first month here. So many of his posts seem to be talking to all of us like we are young kids that only collect shiny new cards with no concept of the vintage era, and now that he's here he should take his rightful place at the head of the table and regale us with stories we've only thought to be urban legend.
The fact is that he's talking about buying twenty 1968 packs in the year of issue like we are supposed to be blown away, when there are many members here (probably older than him) that have bought hundreds of 1950s packs in the year they were issued.
I have always considered our community here to be mainly 50s to 80s vintage (with blowout mainly modern and Net54 mainly pre-war), but with many many modern and pre-war collectors mixed in.
Obviously I don't know the OP, but he strikes me as a guy right around 60ish - maybe an 8 year old in 1968 who remembers using his whole $1 allowance on 20 packs one summer. Possibly recently retired who, with too much time confined in his house (like most of us these days), stumbled upon a box in his attic with some cards which prompted him to do some googling and found this site.
Our community is loaded with great guys that have a seemingly endless knowledge of every era and niche of collecting, and there is definitely a place for you here rmilin, but you have to act more like a contributor and less like a teacher. Just relax and take the time to read more than you type. Once you do that you will realize that not only are you not at the top of the leader board here, but you are actually struggling to make the cut.
well said
That’s a pretty good theory. I had assumed he was just drunk.
Perfectly said, I agree with every word Nam said.
Now im going to be frank Rmilin. There can be a place for you here as stated. You need to leave the insults and negativity at the door. And how dare you act greater than someone because you opened packs in 1968. My cards from my era mean just as much to me as folks that came up in the 50s and 60s.
My 1990 Emmitt Smith score rookie that I've had since i was 13 is my 52 mantle. Emmitt was MY guy. I get tired of the junk wax era stigma. Most of the 50s and 60s cards aren't exactly rare. I realize more were produced in the 80s and 90s but it's not like other eras were massively under produced. Every kid in the 50s and 60s collected, there were plenty to go around. We definitely took better care of our cards in my era. The uptick in "junk wax" era card prices are no fluke. My generation is experiencing what the old timers did. Parents throwing cards away, now you are an adult and want them back. It's the same cycle.
You aren't better, or smarter than anyone else simply because you opened packs in 1968.
My money is on him being an alt. just having fun. And have always enjoyed having a good troll to lively up the place so long as it doesn't go overboard.
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It's possible he knows Jenny.
i thing mr rmilin may have a rather short stay in these parts unless he lightens up and starts to actually contribute.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
I'm waiting for that dude to quote us a loaf of white bread price in 1968. I can't wait!
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I look forward to his edgy new discussions
What amazes me about the junk wax era is that nobody figured out if everybody is saving everything then how could anything really go up in value if there are a million examples of the same card out there. What really cracks me up is the 1986 baseball and basketball cards. You were so busy hoarding the baseball cards and making them worthless you completely dropped the ball on the basketball cards and avoided them which actually that act is what made them so valuable today. Its like you were zigging when you should of been sagging and vice versa talk about being stuck on stupid sorry for the insults but really what would you call collectors from the junk wax era that actually thought 1 million examples of Don Mattingly would be worth something similar to the Mickey Mantle rookie card. The only thing that saved any value for the junk wax era is getting a card graded a 10 by PSA otherwise your Mattingly rookie is worth around $10 dollars if that.
I notice this idiocy is never discussed by any of you on how collectors made baseball cards worthless because of your thinking that they would be valuable one day and would oneday send junior through college. I just hope junior is smarter then you but when you look at todays cards with the artificial rarity these cards are also worthless you just dont know it yet but all the cards today will eventually fall in value like the eTopps cards because the value is just on pure speculation. It reminds me of the Franklin mint plate scam of the 90's yes your rare Wizard of Oz collector plate will be worth 1 million dollars oneday when these plates make great skeet shooting material.
Yesterday our moderator asked you to "tone it down." Must be you missed that note.
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lol
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
I think we're being trolled; I'll bite:
I was 13 years old, like a lot of us on the board, we were kid collectors.
We loved to collect cards and look at Beckett BV monthly.
We weren't trying to zig & zag our way thru the marketplace for the best annualized returns
I'm trying to figure out why anyone cares what cards you opened as a youngster?
Last time I checked you had no say on when you were born.
I'm sure there are collector's still around who opened 52 Topps as a kid.......now what?
“ you should of been sagging”
From how old you keep saying you are, sounds like you’re the one that’s sagging.
Maybe post some pics of some your awesome collection?
Sigh...
Ok I'll go ahead and say it; rmilin, you are an idiot.
Todd was a lot more patient than most mods would have been..
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 am quite old, but not old enough. The first packs I remember collecting as a kid were Wacky Packages. I thought they were the coolest things. Almost like the real product but funnier. I missed out on a lot of cool money making things back then because of my poor choices as a kid. But when you are a kid, you don't look at it like that. You collect what you like.
The first sentence is exactly what I was saying back in the late 80's. I thought it was comical because everybody was safely hoarding and preserving cards.
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eTopps..canary in the coal mine
I like eTopps cards. Of course, '88 topps was my jam too. I suck. Got it.
And they may not put junior through college, but they'll get him through some tough times when i'm gone. And it seems that a smile is worth just as much as a college degree in the work force these days.
I must have been the only one sagging back in the day.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
Well. Can't say I'm shocked. At first he was trollish. But so much bitterness and negativity in every post. Very odd. Oh well..
Dude, you are so confused about what site you’re posting on. Check the set registry. Sure, I know a lot of people back in the 80’s that stashed away sets of mass produced stuff, but you’re not going to find those people here. Maybe you should share your wisdom on Craigslist.
Funny you should mention 1986 Fleer Basketball. I’m ranked number #65 on the set registry, that’s a complete set all graded PSA 9. I’m that far down the list, so that should tell you what kind of collectors are ahead of me. And that’s just one set. The cards some of these members have on here are cards I can only dream of.
Lastly, my dad grew up in the 50’s and was fortunate enough to open packs from 1952 - 1959. He was a huge Yankee fan. All of his cards ended up in the spokes of his bicycle but he did pass on some great information.
Always buy “The Mick” over Joe D.
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He's off his meds.