Think these are legit? Or replicas?

Axtell

Saw this auction

Super Bowl I Ticket

Seemed to be very, very cheap for such an item, if it's legit. I emailed the seller, and asked specifically if these were reprints. They responded saying they had come across a set of 6.

This ticket, in SMR in its poorest grade, would sell for many times this. Odds are pretty long it's original?

Stone193

Axtell
The guy is not a dealer and sells an awful lot of printer ink and has sold other "reprint" type tickets...I would say the guy is selling reprints.



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jrdolan

The moiré pattern indicates it might be a reproduction of a scanned half-tone color image.

stevek

Found this on the internet - there's the answer.


<<< GAME ONE: 1967: Seats cost $6, $10, and $12 for the first game (Packers 35/Chiefs 10) Tickets to the first game are suspiciously easy to come by. Two printers submitted bids to print the tickets. The losing company had already started printing tickets and thousands of them found their way to market. Dillingham won the bid. Unused ticket is about $3,000. Any other (Weldon, William and Lick) is a $10 curiosity. >>>

duner

stevek, that's interesting. i think the last lelands auction sold a lot of at least 100 unused tix to superbowl 1....i was kind of suspicious myself. i don't think the entire lot sold for 3k.

ping4u43

I sent a email to the seller this summer asking if they were reprints and there responce was they didn't have any idea. If they were reprintes or not

Axtell

Here's the email I got back:

"Hi,

This is from an unused ticket lot I bought at a sports card show in
Orlando..I have about 6 of them left.....It has a picture of the stadium
on the back .....It is made by the company weldon, williams, and lick
which made sports tickets in the 60's and 70's.......It is in MINT
condition...Other than that I do not know........Thank you for your
interest."

So it seems its one of the bids that was lost and one of the curiosities.

stevek

<<< Other than that I do not know >>>

Yea sure they "do not know." A powerseller prices a ticket like this with a buy-it-now for $14.99 and they "do not know." That's funny.

NickM

I believe the Weldon, Williams & Lick tickets are considered in the nature of phantoms (like tickets issued for a playoff series that a team did not actually end up playing in).

Nick