Cool cello.

RedHeart54

Gotta admit it's sweet.

'76 Rose

JeffVN

Too bad it will probably not grade better than a 7. Look at those corners, no more than a PSA 7.

FB

Jeff,

I think that you're being generous.... those corners look pretty rough.

JeffVN

True. Here is the question - How do they rate the pack a 9, when the top rates no better than a 7?

rbeaton

<< <i>How do they rate the pack a 9, when the top rates no better than a 7? >>

Because they are only grading the sealing of the pack. They don't take into account the cards inside. They grade the cellos the same as the wax packs which you can't see through.

Robert

toppsgun

Here's a prediction for you:

GAI (or some other company) will one day offer to grade the slabs in which a card is holdered.

GAI MINT 9 of a PSA NM-MT 8 1976 Pete Rose.

Don't laugh too hard. When the insert craze began, we used to make jokes about neon-lighted cards, then came Topps Finest. Now you have bits & pieces of game-used bats and jerseys imbedded in cards. Who's to say when the raw cards dry up, some entreprenuer with a bad idea won't decide to grade the graded cards (slabs).

I just hope I've moved on by then.

aconte

Toppsgun,

That's no real prediction. It's already been discussed.

aconte

aconte

I saw a bunch of packs at the Ft. Washington show and even a 76 Rose Pack graded Gai 9.
I wonder if it could be the same one. Anyhow, the actual card looked pretty bad. A few of
these packs had some terrible cards. I'd rather have the mint 9 Rose.

aconte

waitilltheytrytosell

The top cards in these cellos are usually pretty trashed as far as corners go. Packs with stars on top are sold at a big premium, not to people who think the card will grade highly, but to a collector of Pete Rose cards in this case who wants to keep the pack unopened. Although it might seem like a good idea to wait until a nicer one comes by, you might be waiting for a very long time. It's not uncommon to have packs like this faked, so authentication by somebody who knows what they're looking at is a big plus.

Scoop

<< <i>Packs with stars on top are sold at a big premium, >>



Didn't Topps pack cello and/or racks in the same way as wax packs which have a predictable packing order? i.e. the same cards always surrounded the Mantle (substitute any star) card, so that if you saw one of the surrounding cards on the outside (top or bottom), you knew there was a Mantle card inside.

Also, was there a way to find out this packing order from Topps, or could you only know this order from repeated opening of packs?

JeffVN

That technique works for the 87 and 89 material, so I assume it holds true for other years.

seinbigd

Question for you '76 collectors:

Does the centering look OK top-to-bottom? 25-75?

mrc32

I think the pack is cool becuase Rose with his shades looks like he is peering over the Topps logo. Very cool cello.

Wabittwax

The packing order definately works but it's not full proof. If I know the top card and bottom card from a 1979 Rack Pack, I can tell you if there is an Ozzie Smith in there, pending some very rare shuffling of cards at the Topps factory. I've spent a lot of money figuring that out though. I also know the sequence for the 1980 Rickey Henderson. By the way, there's a 1979 Rack Pack on Ebay right now that features the card right before the Ozzie Smith on the top of the rack.