1969 OPC Hockey

tripoli

If you guys are interested, I've loaded up photos and comments of my complete 1969 OPC hockey set. A very beautiful set in my opinion and very tough to finish because of the lack of quality low number cards.
What makes my collection somewhat unique, is that many of these cards are my original cards that I collected as a kid, and kept in hiding all these years.


dan

1969 OPC Hockey

Yzerman19C

Dan

I really enjoyed looking at your set. Great work and I look forward to watching you upgrade it . I dont think non hockey collectors realize how tough it is to put together OPC sets from 1968-1975 .


Randy

Nuyauwka

Great set Dan, love to see the scans on the registry.Congrats on the completion.

goodriddance189

impressive set. does anyone know who trinity*cards (on ebay) is? i remember him being a major seller/collector of '69's last year

Howitallbegan

Trinitycards is Marc N . He changed his ebay name within the last few months and sold some of this 69-70 set

goodriddance189

actually, there are several ebayers who i've always wondered about- scerb13, flukke, tiburon14, red-leaf, anderkr, starrjm19 (yzerman19c on the boards?), and rollie123.

do any of these guys post on the CU boards? some of them (especially scerb13) have awesome collections.

Yzerman19C

Will

Yes you are correct Yzerman19c = (starrjm19)

As for Scerb . He sold some of his collection to Wallinga the top guy in the Orr registry to put money towards a house. He did offer for sale at one time his Orr Rookie PSA 8 and Gretzky PSA 9 but he may still have those . He has been starting to buy back some cards recently again

Rollie123 is from Toronto and is one of my favorite guys to sell to on ebay.

I dont believe either post on here


Randy

goodriddance189

cool, i figured you were the one and the same. by the way, i still haven't gotten that Plante 8 (for my Horton 9) yet. damn post office.

Yzerman19C

Will


I think im partly to blame on that . I forgot to add the air mail sticker and that always slows it down by 5 days coming from Canada. Let me know when it arrives

Randy

raym8

Dan,

A beautiful set. Thanks for taking the time to scan the cards and posting them for all of us to enjoy.

Best,
Ray

gameusedhoop

Here is a link for the former trinitycards Trinity cards Marc was still sellimg spme 1969s as of a month or two ago.

tripoli

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, there are still some cards that I just purchased from Marc, including 3 low number PSA 9's, that have yet to be updated by PSA in the images and comments. I don't think people realize how hard it is to find high quality, low series cards in 1969. I had to grade some of my cards that I knew would be PSA 5's to complete the set. Contrary to some opinions, there is NOT an undiscovered hoard to be found up here in CAnada. The local card shows and shops have absolutely zero in terms of vintage hockey that is PSA'ble.

iBuyUsell

tripoli,
Nice set.
I remember talking to Marc N. (Nitka?) @ the Toronto Expo.
He mentioned there was vending for 69-70 OPC in the US (NJ)?

tripoli

Yes, but those vending cases were only the high number cards or the 2nd series. PSA 9's in the first series or low number cards, make up less than 2% of the total PSA 9's and 10's graded in 1969 OPC. In other words, there are about a 1,000 cards graded PSA 9, 9Q or 10, but only 25 or so, are from the first series.
Hence, low number common PSA 8's were fetching over $100 on ebay lately, with a checklist in PSA 8 going for over $300, and a PSA 9 checklist going for more than $600. Makes it tough to upgrade.


dan

zsz70

Hi everyone,

It's marc (formely trinity*cards) on ebay.

Dan is absolutely correct about the low series 1969-70 opc.
The TOUGHEST low series cards to find in high grade in any opc series.

It is also true that there is vending available from the 2nd series.
Over my 20 years in the hobby I've been fortunate enough to run into
a man who used to go with Bill Mastro over to the gentlemans home in
Conneticut who was the first major card dealer on the east coast.
This is the gentleman who bought all of the opc vending cases and
millions of other cards that have filtered through the hobby.
I've learned a lot of great history and facts from this 63 year old gentleman.

He still has a good amount of opc vending material from certain years.
However, although there is vending material remaining, there are certain
cards that are still very difficult to obtain in high grade from the high series.

Yes, my last name is Nitka. My first national was in Atlantic City in 1987.
I remember dealers getting excited about selling Yzerman opc rookies for
5 dollars and Mario rookies for 7. I remember buying sets from 1980 opc
and topps for 10 dollars. The Gretzky rookies were selling for 50,
and you could purchase some great parkie sets for 500-1000.
My best memories as a dealer were doing the Boston shows when
Ted Woo was doing only hockey. Teddy ran across the best ice kings
and 1936 opc on the planet. Teddy was also a true gentleman and a class act. Then of course Michel from Montreal ran
across the great 1951-52 parkie find back then as well. I saw Michel
in Atlantic City for this years national, and he told me how he'd be a
millionaire now if he kept those cards. Oh well. There was also the 1962 parkie
find along with the 1963-64 parkie find.

In the past 20 years my interests in the hobby as a collector and seller has only
been hockey. I do not collect any other sports. One other interesting fact about
the 1969-70 series is that there were more people living in New York City in
1969 then in the entire country of Canada. That will put into perspective how
difficult it really is to find good old hockey cards compared to other sports.

I am interested in the person who posted earlier about meeting me in Ontario
a few years back. I can not recall the conversation about the vending case.
Please email me at himnit@safeplace.net