1967 Set for $16.90

Buccaneer

I was going through my old magazines/photos box and came across my favorite magazine, 1970 Football Street & Smith. Here's an ad from that magazine

envoy98

I'll take 100 of each. let me know where to send payment.

TomGshotput

At 8%, that $16.90 would now be worth close to $300

Still a few hours left

And here's another one

Still a very good purchase at that price

I have 1973 and 74 Street and Smith Football magazimes somewhere, I'll look for any interesting cigarette and baseball card ads

rube26105

sibgles cards 5 cents each, thats enuff to make ya drool looking at the stuff they had!!!!minumum oder 1.00-you can get a couple of pieces of gun form the veding machines now for 1.00,thatsa bout it!, if we only woulda knew!!!!!95 cents postage, those were the days!

bifff257

Seems a little overpriced to me..

F1ferrari

I just came back from my local shop, and he's got a complete 1966 set (probably about ex condition) for $5000, a 1971 in the same condition for $2200. If I were only to hit the Powerball tonight...

softparade

<< <i>I'll take 100 of each. let me know where to send payment. >>



I'll take the entire inventory off their hands for those prices

Stone193

Steve

I always enjoy when someone posts a retro-ad/article with the prices.

In 1972, I went into a shop that had antiques and a counter with a mess of sportscards.

They had 52T's for 25 - 50 cents a piece and I think they wanted a buck or two for stars and I told my best friend - John - highway robbery!!!

I'm a real visionary - aint I?

Thanx
mike

nightcrawler

I agree with Stone on the ad, thanks for shareing.

metalmike

All those cards were off center anyway...(keep thinking that).............

MorrellMan

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<< <i>I'll take 100 of each. let me know where to send payment. >>



I'll take the entire inventory off their hands for those prices >>



If only I had....

originalisbest

Great old ad - I don't feel too badly since I wasn't even around to "pass" on that deal - though I surely wish my older brothers would've gotten some!

CollectsItAll

The thing is it was still probably overpriced for the time. LOL

I remember looking at old Larry Fritsch ads in the late 70s and early 80s and his prices were always extremely high.

LloydsBaseballCards

I use to order from Wholesale Cards in Conn. in 1971-72, I still have an entire catalog somewhere. I remember ordering a year like 1957 and he would send out an assortment of cards for $5 or $10 something like that, I remember getting a 57 Mantle and an 57Aaron that way. They came in a small brown envelope, no card holders, no packing material, no insurance, just cards in an envelope. I still have the envelopes as well. good old days.

jrinck

<< <i>All those cards were off center anyway...(keep thinking that)............. >>



There may be truth to that. Most likely the sets were hand-collated, too, and the hand that collated them probably didn't care about condition.

Don't assume those were MINT, perfectly centered sets. If I had to guess, I'd guess way more 7's than 8's or 9's.

Still, not a bad deal, in hindsight.

baseballfan

don't you wish you can go back to those time with a $1000.00. what a great time you would have.

rexvos

<< <i>don't you wish you can go back to those time with a $1000.00. what a great time you would have. >>



that is one of my recurring fantasies.

dude

I still have my beat-up and dog-eared 1967 Street and Smith baseball edition from my childhood and I recall posting a scan of a similar ad for the '67 Topps Baseball set and I recall it was $12 or $13 for the complete set.

The funny thing for me was that I was collecting that set in 1967 and I probably spent more than $18 over the course of that summer collecting those cards and still having an incomplete set with lots of dupes. I vividly remember seeing that ad and thinking it was a rip-off since since you were paying double the price of the cards with no gum.

originalisbest

Ah! Hindsight.

SidePocket

Excluding the inflation factor, how could Topps make any money back then selling 690 cards for $15?

PowderedH2O

I stumbled upon this old post. I actually DID buy from them several times in the 70's. I remember in 1979 I put together a few bucks and bought a 1971 Topps Football set shipped from them to me for $6.95. It came in brown wrappers, with maybe 60 cards per package, so they weren't pristine. But they were still awesome. I picked up a 1973 set from them for $4.95 I think. Again, the same brown wrappers.

shu4040

69 football for $7 and 70 bkball for $6 !??! lol awesome...

brianwintersfan

Who has the time machine around here??

Brick

I thought 1967 was having a birthday.

Alfonz24

Not sure if I bought from them, but in the mid 70s (as a pre-teen having my mother write checks for payment) I bought the 5th series 71 baseball and 73 complete set baseball, 1970, 1971 and 1972 (first 2 series) football.

BTW - Happy Birthday Greencow!!!!!!!!

lahmejoon

lol - I second the time machine sentiment. Very fun. Thanks for sharing!

Mickey71

I won't be greedy...I'll just take one of the 1966 baseball sets. $17.90....Here's $18///////Keep the change. Oh my goodness. Can I use Paypal in the 1970 time machine?

itzagoner

<< <i>I thought 1967 was having a birthday. >>

gemint

I always enjoy seeing those. I have the '71 Street and Smith magazine and it has the brand new 1971 baseball sets for around that same price. When I was a kid and these ads were around 7-8 years old, I was temped to get a check from my mom and send it in with the ad to see if they'd still honor the price. LOL. I'm sure if I had actually asked my mom to try this, she would have laughed at me.

PSASAP

I remember ordering cards from Bruce Yeko, the owner of Wholesale Cards. I bought a 1963 Topps Clemente for $29.95, and I still have it. It resides in a PSA 7 holder.

1980scollector

<< <i>Who has the time machine around here?? >>




Can I come, when you find it?

jivan

i remember ordering from card collectors company here in ny......1960 yaz rookie 20.00....68 series of 132 cards with the mantle 9.99... forgot the series # but i believe there was a rose and killer plus more in that series run....1968 # 490 superstars .15 each and 66 hi number robin roberts .10 each...all the other combo cards from like 66,67,68 were between .07 and .10 each...and my 75 baseball set eas 10.00 dlvd.....man, i miss dem days

handyman

Do you think the 1970 BK set is really a 1969 BK set?
Not a bad price
1959 Fleer Ted Williams 4.95 Set

alnavman

and I would guess the 33 card hof set is probably the golden press set

JMDVM

I'm revving up the "Way,way back machine" for a weekend trip.....

WalterSobchak

<< <i>I thought 1967 was having a birthday. >>


That's pretty solid, right there.

jmmiller777

Good stuff, I didn't know they offered complete sets back then, pretty cool.

Dboneesq

<< <i>Good stuff, I didn't know they offered complete sets back then, pretty cool. >>


I believe they were individuals who purchased cases of cards from Topps and put the sets together for resale.

kidzfund

You also have the payment plan option if $14.95 was too much to pay at one time...

I also used to buy from the Card Collector Company. I bought the 1959 Fleer set, but it came without card #68 (it was advrtised that way)

Joe

dontippet

<< <i>The thing is it was still probably overpriced for the time. LOL

I remember looking at old Larry Fritsch ads in the late 70s and early 80s and his prices were always extremely high. >>




THat was my first thought as well, the prices seemed high. In the late 80's, current factory sets were going for about that price.

parkerj

By the way, $1 in 1970 is the equivalent of about $5.44 today....so that 67 set is really pricey at ~$92. I think i'll pass!