Why Didn't I buy This 1965 set and save time!

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1965 Topps Set for $12.95
Usually when I assemble large sets, I also collect the card wrapper and an old ad listing the set when it came out.
Now that I'm approaching 95% of the '65 set and hitting a brick wall with some of the tough low pops, I should have bought this set!
If $12.95 was too steep for the 598 card set, you could buy it by series ($2.25 to $2.75 each) or singles at .3 cents,
hmnnn! .3 cents for a Mantle, Clemente, Rose, Mays, or Carlton rookie, sure! And check out the price of the 1965 Topps Football set that included the Namath rookie $3.95??? Man! If we could only go back in time!!! ...jay

curmudgeon

Hey QC, where is that ad from?

When I was a kid, a neighbor and I ordered some '65 and '68 singles from a company listed in the Sporting News. We were each responsible for memorizing part of the address in case we lost the issue. I can't tell you what I had for lunch yesterday, but I can tell you that the company was Wholesale Cards Incorporated, Box 495, Georgetown, CT (forgot the zip- as zip codes weren't as important back then). Your ad for a similar company brings back a flood of great memories. Thanks!
Todd

Vargha

Yep, I remember those days . . . $13 for a complete new 1969 set, etc. Several times I almost bit the bullet, but never did.

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TODD - That ad was clipped from the Sept '65 Baseball Digest. Usually every Baseball Digest and Sporting News has at least 1 company selling cards. My favorite as a kid was always the Mannys Baseball Land that had yearbooks, Heartlands, Mantle, Maris and Team bobbleheads plus other collectibles. I'll see if I can dig an old ad out. Funny thing though, as an adult you'll kick yourself for not buying more when you had the chance. But in '65 I was 7, and had a 25 cents allowence, so a $1.98 Mantle Heartland or a $12.95 complete set was like a million dollars to me...jay

RedHeart54

Someone should run over to that address in New York just to see if there's anything left!!

braves72078

Oh the memories!!!!!

curmudgeon

QC,

What I should have done is pointed those out to the folks for Christmas present ideas. Think of it! I'd have most of the set already by year end, having dinged and handled them, then I get a complete set to put away (in theory) for down the road. Argh....................what was I thinking? Take back the GI Joe's, Major Matt Mason (remember him?), Hotwheels and by all means the clothes and gimme those cards!!!!!

Think I'm having a moment................one of those repressed childhood problem deals... better run.
Todd

gemint

Jay - That ad is in great condition. Are you going to get it graded? Of course since it's cut from a page, you'd have to submit it to PRO!

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GEMINT - I believe the grading choice for cut magazine pictures and articles isn't our friends at PRO but another company that like ASC or AAA or something...jay

LloydsBaseballCards

Jay, when I was a kid, 1971-72 we collected vintage and used to send away to Wholesale cards. We would send like $20 and ask for 1957's or something like that. He would send out 10-15 cards, but stars would be included. I had Aaron, and Mantle in my childhood collection from him. I have the catalog, from '71, it would make you sick to your stomach to look at the prices.

KING KELLOGG

Jay...


I love it!!!

Especially the small print that says "single cards $.03 ea."... Min. 50 cents...What a hoot!

Thanks for the pic...



Larry

pc

Manny's Baseball Land was across from yankee stadium for years.
it's contents i believe were sold a few years back.Jay,we shared
the same allowance back then and we seem to be within a year.
that quarter went a long way.

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Paul, My allowance didn't last that long. I was given the quarter on Saturday and within minutes I was in town deciding on what .5 cent packs of cards to get (Baseball, Football, Beatles, Batman etc...) what .5 cent candybar and perhaps a .12 cent DC comic of Superman or the Flash....My quarter didn't last long at all ...jay

metalmike20

Thanks for sharing that pic Jay. I have some old SCD's from the late 80's and I was flipping through them the other day, the prices on 70's and 80's unopened wax was just sickening. Even looking at the first couple of football beckett's is fun. Jerry Rice rc. $6!!!!! Steve Young 86 topps, 25 cents!!!!!!!

Mike

RedHeart54

Try a BASEBALL Beckett from circa 1986. $100 or so for a Nolan Ryan RC. OUCH!

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METALMIKE - REDHEART - I suppose 15 years from now we will be nostalgic about some of the items that were cheap in 2003. Be it a new product, a hot shot rookie like LeBron James or some vintage card or set that was more affordable now...jay

miami3

Jay,

Great looking ad, you should have saved up your allowance and bought two sets. One for the bike spokes and one for psa grading!

Seriously, the ad is from a company called Wholesale Card Co that moved from New York State to Georgetown,CT. in the late sixties. They were the first full time card dealer, not Larry as he likes to advertise.

The owner of the company was a guy names Bruce Yecko who was a very strange fellow. In fact my partner and I bought out his inventory in 1987 and boy did he have tons of great stuff.

One item that sticks out to me that we got is approx. 1900 complete sets of 80-81 Topps basketball all wrapped in rubber bands and put in paper grocery bags that we bought for .50 per set each.

This guy used to call us every 6 months or so with another of his "attic or garage finds" and sell us huge lots of vending boxes that were opened up in the sixties and only had the star cards removed.

The last time I spoke to him was 1995. He was going down to his beach house at the Jersey Shore to look for his six or seven 1963 Topps high number vending cases that he had brought down there because he used them to make the base of a table in his workshop to cut wood on.

This is a true story If you ask any of the oldtimers from the hobby they will tell you how wierd this guy was.

I wonder what ever happened to him.........................................., cause I never got that call about the 63's.


Jim

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JIM - If I were you, I'd be on the phone right now trying to locate him ...jay