Investing on T205/T206 tobacco packs

SammyC

After realizing how hot are those unopened materials (e.g. 86-87 Fleer BBK case, 52T BB packs, 2003-04 UD Exquisite boxes etc) I am thinking to invest some money on sealed materials such as tobacco packs that could pull t205/t206 tobacco baseball cards. I watched a few tobacco pack unboxing videos on YouTube, I noticed many of those packs are encapsulated. Does anyone know which grading company grade them? and know any collectors out there are willing to part with those unopened tobacco packs?

dontippet

GAI did. There's a couple packs on ebay right now.

craig44

Would Steve wrap a cigarette pack?

stevek

You'd better carefully study the history behind these packs before possibly wasting a lot of good money.

The fact is that a number of these vintage cigarette packs either didn't contain any card, or if it did, was a non-sports or non-baseball card.

SammyC

Watched a few videos on youtube and most don't have cards but one did pulled a Jordan t206.

handyman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtFOJgCdvOg
Didnt expect the corners to have such natural wear like it did. Look authentic? Looked Vg-ex to Ex to me.

SammyC

That Jordan has a superb surface, at least the front surface was. I remember seeing other cards being pulled (from video or pics) from tobacco packs didn't have razor sharp corners too, I guess we can't expect every single tobacco cards were GEMMINT 10 right out from a product that were produced hundred yr ago.

handyman

I would think it should have razor sharp corners. And I can understand having dings/creases and all. But handled wear seems odd.

BJY83

@handyman said:
I would think it should have razor sharp corners. And I can understand having dings/creases and all. But handled wear seems odd.

I thought the same when I watched the video.