Under the Radar issues that are rarer and harder to grade well from the 1990's
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--- 1991 Wild card Football set - Number of PSA 10's
50 Stripe - 0
100 Stripe - 0
1000 Stripe - 3
This set especially the 100 and 1000 stripe's are unbelievably rare, period, never mind the PSA grades. When Factoring in the grades though, these cards are virtually non-existent.
--- 1991 Wild card Collegiate Football set - Mainly Favre is the only one graded. Out of the total number graded by PSA of 2,150, 1,800 of these are Brett Favre. Brett does have 31 PSA 10's of the 50, 100 and 1000 stripes.
--- 1992 Leaf Baseball black gold (inserted in the leaf boxes) -- black borders and centering make this issue very tough and very rare in PSA 10.
I went through the pop report kind of fast and the fact that it is commingled with the regular 1992 leaf made the search a little cumbersome. The only PSA 10 pop of 10 or more was Nolan Ryan with 16. Jeff Kent is the big rookie here and there are 3 PSA 10's. Cards like Griffey, Thomas, Ripken, Mattingly, Ryan should have a hefty value due to the tough conditions of these cards.
None of these boxes are very expensive and should be fun to open.
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The Andre Tippett 1,000 stripe is my white whale for that player collection.
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I picked up an unopened box at a local show for $45 this past weekend. i have never opened one up. Any idea what the mix is for a box. 1-1000, 2-100, 3-50?
I have no idea.
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I opened a bunch of wild card football product in the 90's when they came out as I worked at a card shop. While rather garish when seen individually, the feeling turns to contempt when having to look at thousands of them when sorting.
Considering the company was quite small and owned by a card collector, I'm impressed that there hasn't been a 100 and 1000 stripe dump on the hobby. No way those 1000 stripe redemptions were destroyed.
-Nathanael
Not guaranteed to get a 5-stripe in each box. A 100-stripe is maybe 1 per case. Opened an absolute ton of this stuff in 1992-93 clearance prices.
thanks for the info.
Collation is horrendous. You can open a box and receive multiples of the same cards in same pack…and several of the same pack distribution throughout the box. Good luck and keep us posted on the break.
Thanks,
David (LD_Ferg)
1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
Is the difference really just the number in the stripe?
I recall opening a box of 1991 Wild Card Collegiate. Every other pack had a Brett Favre in it. Sadly no stripes of him.
Yes, but the higher the number in the stripe, the fewer copies they made.
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#1 John Hannah master set
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And I'll add that people tend to forget that these cards were redemption cards. A 100 stripe could be mailed in for 100 copies of the base card. A 100 thousand stripe, a thousand copies, etc. Doubtful too many were mailed in but whatever total number of each had to have been reduced by that program.
I am guessing around that time, the majority of people would be redeeming those for more cards. That is the time when everything was "worth" a ton and people were buying up everything anyone made just about. Getting 1000 base cards of a guy who might be hot at the time had to be worth more than a rare 1000 stripe insert to many.
Was there really anyone else in the set generally worth grading (not just for set collections or fan favorites) besides Favre?
Those cards will probably stick(brick) together right out of the pack.
I have found SIFK, especially the earlier couple years, are very hard to grade. They're not that rare, but the perforations and the varying locations of where the perforations are on the sheet relative to centering contribute a lot to the difficulty.
A lot of the hand-cut unperforated sheet magazine-issue cards can be difficult too, such as Tuff Stuff, Legends, etc.
I would think it would be some of the rarest cards (1000 stripe and 100 stripe) ever produced for Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Deion, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, John Elway, Dan marino, Etc.
Much like an Atomic Refractor of Jordan in 1996 would sale for more than practically all of his regular issue cards except the 1986.
Good point. I am not opening the box I bought. I will keep it and resale it.
Favre was not valuable yet upon release and wouldn’t be for another year+ and by then the gimmick of this product and value has tanked.
Upon release Leonard Russell, Dan McGwire, Todd Marinovich and by super bowl time, Ricky Ervins were the big RC names. Emmitt was the biggest vet as a 2nd year card. I’d guess that those guys probably had the most copies redeemed from their stripe parallels.
1995 Panini Smash Hits Stickers comes to mind. they are horribly flimsy (being stickers) and are undersize that of normal trading cards and can usually be found to be miscut. The Kurt Cobain specifically goes for decent money in high grade because of this.
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2 of my favorite LT's. Black borders are cool until you open the pack
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