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vintage priceguide 1979...check out the pricing!!

1966CUDA1966CUDA Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭✭
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Picked up a 1979 priceguide at a flea market last week...check out the prices on the '52 Topps cards!!!! I'll take two of the MINT Mantles please!!!! (I'll add more scans later....if there's a set you'd like to see, let me know and I'll try and get it poste here...there's also non-sports in the guide too!!)
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  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭
    Gotta like how the Pafko isn't even listed!
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭
    Hi everyone,new here...

    Yeah, looking at the old prices is kinda fun, makes you wonder what people will be saying about current price guides in 20 years or so. I recently went through some of my old Becketts from the early '90s and prices on a lot of the vintage cards haven't changed much at all. In some cases the values have dropped, for example check out Steve Carlton or Carl Yaz cards.
  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    In one of my first posts here, I scanned this March 1, 1968, priceguide from The Card Collector's Company. I remember buying some 1962 Topps World Series and Babe Ruth cards to complete those subsets.

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    The logo was always a favorite of mine, too:

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    I've got the rest of the catalog scanned, too, if anyone wants to read through it...

    hh
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  • SusquehannaSusquehanna Posts: 97
    $250 for a Wagner, Wow! I wasn't collecting at that time. It is amazing how the hobby has evolved over such a relative short period of time. Thanks for sharing.
    Nick
  • SusquehannaSusquehanna Posts: 97
    Am I reading that right? Was the 52 bowman Mays worth more than the Mantle?
    Nick
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    I'll take a 52 Bowman set for $400
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

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  • 1966CUDA1966CUDA Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭✭
    Yeah, the '52 Bowman Mays was more than the Mantle. Luv these old price guides.....if only we knew then. The '73 topps set in my guide doesn't even list Schmidt's rookie....just a common in '79 I guess!!!! I'll take a dozen of those ones!!
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool Cuda

    I'll tell ya. I shouldn't be allowed in here!

    I went to a show around 78 in NYC - it had coins, games, some antiques, misc. collectibles and some card sellers/dealers?

    I saw a really nice 52T Mantle for around 300$ and the guy said he would take offers.

    I was in school at the time and couldn't afford 30 bucks...

    But still I told my friend Andy who was a coin collector that it was not worth that kind of money and he agree - being a coinhead, he talked of intrinsic value and all that...

    And, even if someone had picked up a lot of that stuff around 68 to 79 - they would have probably sold it way before the days of PSA and investor suits.

    thanx for sharing
    mike
    Mike
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