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Anyone remember The Card Collectors Co. - vintage '60s dealer

HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
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While going my archives, I found some corrrespondence from the Card Collectors Co. I always loved that logo (see my sig file).

Below is a CC Co. catalog from 1963. The 1951 Red Backs and Blue Backs could be had for $15.00 total! The high number 1952 Topps were going for $1.00 each. My weekly dime allowance didn't go too far...


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  • bobsbbcardsbobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭
    I loved reading through that. Fascinating that the four SP cards from 1958 are more expensive than any of the '52s except the high numbers. Thanks for sharing!

    Is there any way that you can scan the other pages too?
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  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    bob,

    You asked for it -- you've got it!! Hope you enjoy the other 7 pages!

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  • goudeygoldgoudeygold Posts: 701 ✭
    Not a single Goudey?!

    GG
  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    ha! You can please some of the people some of the time...

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  • mudflap02mudflap02 Posts: 2,060 ✭✭
    Wow - anybody else notice the original art from the backs of the cards? Price - a buck apiece.

    Thanks for posting that.
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    I used to buy from them all the time in the early 70's- by then T206's were a buck and T205's 1.50
    Service was always good. I believe they were owned by Richard Gelman, the son of Topps Art Director Woody Gelman.
    I still have a catalog from about '73, I remember having a choice of either the '51 Red Back set or Blue Back set for 39.95 I chose the RedBack set because it had more HOFers- not knowing the Blue Backs would soon triple in price while the Red Backs stayed the same for some time.
    BTW, "mint" back then would be considered Ex now. And centering didn't matter.

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • calleochocalleocho Posts: 1,569 ✭✭
    you could have bought a whole set of "mars attack" for $2 bucks...damn
    "Women should be obscene and not heard. "
    Groucho Marx
  • baseballfanaticbaseballfanatic Posts: 2,415 ✭✭
    Wow! Thanks for the great post. If my knee could bend the opposite way, I'd be kicking myself in the butt.............
  • bxbbxb Posts: 805 ✭✭
    I remember them well. I bought many of my 1967 cards from them. I got the Mantle in NMT for $3, and the Mays for $1.50, as well as many of the tougher high numbers. I bought the 1961 Golden Press book intact in NMT for $3.50.

    My how times have changed.
    Capecards
  • purelyPSApurelyPSA Posts: 712 ✭✭
    A friend of mine has a similar catalog circa the mid-60s - I think the "newest" set available was the 1964s - where the '52 Mantle was the only card in the catalog priced separately. He told me he had to pay like .75 as a kid just to get the catalog mailed to him, which is funny because I think the Mantle was $3.00. I think that may have been the first example of asking for premiums for star cards, as most people who sold individual cards back then tended to sell them all at the same price, to allow people to finish sets.
  • purelyPSApurelyPSA Posts: 712 ✭✭
    How about a '27 Yankees scorecard with a Ruth homer or two on it? For $2.50?
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    Bruce Yeko was the other big dealer back then, I've got one of his catalogs as well. Interesting to see which sets went up and which sets shot thru the roof.
    Price may have been lower back then (although adjusted for inflation maybe not as much as we'd think) but it was really tough finding a lot of stuff. I can see 6 cards of any given set on ebay tonite that I would've gone years of searching these catalogs, whatever shows were back then, or auctions in The Trader Speaks. Much easier being a collector now, once you figure out how to pay for the stuff you've found.

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • BuccaneerBuccaneer Posts: 1,794 ✭✭
    Thanks for posting this.
  • Lothar52Lothar52 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭
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    HAHA..it just goes to show you that OUR GENERATION IS THE ONLY ONE TO THINK THIS STUFF IS WORTH ANYTHING.....WE ARE CRAZY!!

    and yes..i pay the same prices you do so I am just as easy to blame!!!

    loth
  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭


    << <i>Not a single Goudey?!

    GG >>

    I assumed they were referring to Goudeys where it says, "'Big League' baseball cards from the 1930's. Very scarce. Our choice only, 35¢ ea."
  • goudeygoldgoudeygold Posts: 701 ✭
    your right, I missed that. 35 freaking cents!!!

    GG
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    HH
    Fantastic post! I have dealt with a lot of these guys years ago and as Griff stated, I'm sure that your ad is the same person who did ads in SCD years ago:

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    Most of these guys have long abandoned SCD for ebay.

    thanx for sharing!
    mike
    Mike
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,409 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow - anybody else notice the original art from the backs of the cards? Price - a buck apiece.

    Thanks for posting that. >>


    Mud
    I'm a big collector of that art and I'm not sure how much leaked out of the files of Topps - of course most know that Topps opened their files in 1989 at the Guernsey auction - unfortunately I was overseas then.

    I have and still pick up pieces in the 25 buck range but nothing back in the 50s! I did pick up a piece from 1965 that I will scan when it comes in.

    Here's one from 1970:

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    Probably paid like 20 bucks for it. Notice the misspelled word and not corrected on the card?

    mike
    Mike
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