Question on 1973 Team Blue checklists

Robeson

I know the 1973 Blue team checklists are hard to find in good shape, but what kind of value do they have in PSA 6 and 7. I have a Giants and a Padres listed on Ebay. I have 18 people watching the Giants card and 13 watching the Padres after 24 hours. I have received 2 offers asking me to end the auction early and sell to them. One was for $28 for both and the other was for $18 for the PSA 7 Giants. I only paid $5.00 for the pair.

Any help on the value would be great.
Scott

packCollector

sorry , I was listing the blue opc ones. i didn't even realize the topps were scarce . I have a few from a couple packs I opened that I will dig out to get graded. they were high # packs so I guess that goes along with the story or why they are so scarce that they were only in the high #'s

Robeson

For some strange reason, there seems to be lots of OPC checklists around. My friend believes that the topps sets were availible through mail order. I know about the late series packs.

MrG

Scott,

The 73 Blue checklists are very scarce in any condition. Not only were they only found in the last series, they were only in certain regions. I grew up in Dallas and opened many last series packs, but never received a single blue checklist. (I think this was a test case for the following years 1974 green team checklists.) I also heard that you could get them mail order, but I was too interested in the Cowboys by that time of the year.

A quick look at the pop report gives a clue to the interest level in your two auctions:

67 total slabbed, (0) PSA 10, (0) PSA 9, (1) 9Qs, (7) 8s, (30) 7s, (19) 6s, (7) 5s, (2) 3-4s

I have bought 155 raw blue checklists in the last two years and sent the best (9) cards of the lot into PSA.
The outcome: (8) PSA 6s, and (1) PSA 5. These are very tough indeed!

Let the auctions ride, and enjoy the windfall!

Edited to Add: I opened the bidding at $0.99. Let's see how I long I last!

MichaelG

MrG

Scott,

The 24 team set of raw '73 checklists sold tonight for $103.76. You should know the full value of your graded cards when they close on Monday!

Cheers,
Michael