1984T Dan Marino questions

HoofHearted

Does anyone know what this unopened cello pack might be worth? It's got Franco Harris' last fb card on the top and Marino's rookie on the bottom. You can see what I paid for it in the scan.





And OBTW, if you're a Marino fan (Greg, are you there?!), do you have this other 1984 Topps rookie card in your set??



I may put this cello pack on ebay someday, so I was just curious what it may go for...

hh

fsjeter

I would put that somewhere in the neighborhood of $150.00. If I were you, I would send it to GAI and that might add more value.

Scott

Knuckles

I have no idea about the value of anything football related but I agree with Scott. I'm sure you would get more $ for it if slabbed by GAI.

HoofHearted

I've located the GAI site and printed out the submission form. I'll let you know when I get the results back.

Thanks for your help and advice!

hh

gregm13

I'd guess the pack would grade a GAI 8.5 to 9 if there aren't any little tears that I can't see. There is a premium for having Marino on the front of the pack, but I'd say you could sell this for $80 to $120 in GAI 8.5 to GAI 9 condition. The Marino appears to be off centered, which might bring the final price down a little.

As for Marino's other rc, I have quite a few. I'm flush w/ 1984 cards, except Dwight Stephenson which seems to elude me in high grade. Consider this a plea for help!!

Regards,

Greg M.

HoofHearted

Hey, Greg,

Sorry for the late reply. My wife and I just got back from an overnight stay on the Oregon coast. It was a fun two days!

I just checked for an '84T FB Dwight Stephenson, but didn't see one in the few 84s I own. There's probably a choice one in the cello!! There might be an Elway rookie, too... It's tempting to open it, but after having it for 20+ years, I think I can resist a little while longer.

hh

Boopotts

Hey Hoof-

Where on the Oregon coast? My family's from Nehalem.

HoofHearted

We went as far south as Newport, up to Depoe Bay and stayed overnight at Lincoln City. After a jaunt north to Tillamook we headed back east to where we live -- about 25 miles west of Portland. We were checking out antique stores most of the time. The weather was TOO fine to stay in all of the time, so we did spend a couple hours on the beach. It was absolutely perfect!

We've camped at Nehalem Bay before. It's a beautiful area. We'll probably be going to that area soon before our current two-week vacation is over, I'm sure.

I found myself going through a lot of "vintage" cards in the antique stores. I bought 9 sheets of nice looking '79T baseball, 3 sheets of '78-'79T basketball, 2 sheets of '81-'82T basketball. amd 9 sheets of '81T football -- all commons. I passed up on boxes and boxes of thousands and thousands of late '80s, early '90s sports cards that the sellers were practically giving away. I've got enough of that already.

In some of my crazier moments I picked up a sheet of "Famous Authors" (some kind of Whitman playing cards which had one of my favorite authors in it -- Mark Twain) in Excellent condition, 3 "Good" Palladin cards (1959), 20 Fr-VG cards of "Famous Westerns" (1958), and (drum roll please....) an unopened box of "Baywatch Collection Edition I" cards from 1995!! The box was only $6 so I thought I might break it open and use scans of some of the choicest cards to liven up my signature file now and then.

Oh, and I did buy an 1880 edition of Twains' "Tramp Abroad". I've gotten some good deals on some of his older stuff lately...

hh

HoofHearted

Oh, yeah, I just remembered, after seeing Axtell reply to a message, that I bought '85T Moon and Elway rookie cards yesterday, too. I THINK I need them to help complete my '85T raw FB set. I have the stars pulled out because I had them in my safe deposit box. I've been taking an inventory of cards lately and I wasn't sure what I had for '85T stars when I put together a "wanted" and "to trade" list before going to the coast.

The rookie cards are in at least NRMT condition with great centering and strong corners on both.

hh