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artimus

i just got a box of 4000 mostly basketball cards....1994....and some 1990 football cards and a few baseball cards also......from 1994 are there any particularly good cards i should look for?....or any cards that anyone needs?.......thanks in advance.....

rana

Lots of the 90s stuff is near worthless because it was overprinted. If the condition of the cards is near perfect, 1 out of every few hundred might be worth some money. For a rough idea, you could buy ($6?) or browse a Beckett basketball price guide and look there for the specific sets and see the "retail" prices. The actual value is usually less than the Beckett prices. You could also search eBay completed auctions to get rough ideas of the higher end cards for a given year and brand. Restrict your searches to raw cards, not graded ones, if you don't plan to grade the cards before selling them (that can cost $5-15 per card). Most likely, you've got a couple cards that book at $15 or a bit more and then some good firewood.

artimus

thanks for the reply.....i bought the whole box.....4000 cards for $20...as far as i can tell...they havent been handled...if at all...very lightly.....i have a fleer set...a fleer ultra.....some upper deck....and even a set of baseball cards from 1994 also....i realize they arent old enough to be worth anything now......but if anyone knows.....i would like to pick out some of the best ones....and have them graded and slabbed so i can put them away for my kids.....i mostly collect coins....but for $20...i couldnt pass these up.....are there any cards in this year that would be worth plucking out.....or any sets?....there are tons of the 1994 usa basketball team cards in here.....should i keep a set of these?.....sorry for all the questions......but i want to preserve the best cards for the next generation......any help would be greatly appreciated.....thanks

Boopotts

Wow! We usually get all types here, but I never thought we'd see the reincarnation of Celine on the boards!

Here's a sample of Celine's writing:

Guignol's Band (1944):

Boom! Zoom! . . . It's the big smashup! . . . The whole street caving in at the waterfront! . . . It's Orleans crumbling and thunder in the Grand Cafe! . . . A table sails by and splits the air! . . . Marble bird! . . . spins round, shatters a window to splinters! . . . A houseful of furniture rocks, spins from the casements, scatters in a rain of fire! . . . The proud bridge, twelve arches, staggers, topples smack into the mud. The slime of the river splatters! . . . mashes, splashes the mob yelling choking overflowing at the parapet! . . . It's pretty bad . .


All kidding aside, you're going to probably have to spend a lot of time, and really learn quite a bit about basketball cards, before you can discern whether or not any of these are worth anything. If you had a box of 1957 Topps basketball the situation would be a little different, but for the cards you've got you really have to understand condition, how to pre-grade, and so forth before you can hope to turn the proverbial sow's ear (that being this box of cards) into a silk purse (that being a few very nice PSA 10's of Michael Jordan that could bring 20-70 bucks at auction). I wish it was easier than that, but unfortunately there's just so much of this stuff out there that it doesn't really sell itself.

artimus

ok.....fair enough....then what is the best way to preserve the whole box....whilst i garner said education?...lol.....thanks in advance