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I might even get a big glass case and make a little 80s card shop counter in the corner.
Clear Skies,
Mark
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
Now I sell all this stuff online....
<< <i>Those are some sick photos. Us wax ripping addicts will never recover if people keep posting pics like that. That warehouse is like Heaven to us junkies. >>
Time for us addicts to take a field trip... can we get Rube to bring the guns to break in!
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<< <i>Those are some sick photos. Us wax ripping addicts will never recover if people keep posting pics like that. That warehouse is like Heaven to us junkies. >>
Time for us addicts to take a field trip... can we get Rube to bring the guns to break in! >>
...and a little explosives, of course.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
I have stuff in my side of the walk in closet - after I get it organized - I'll take a pic. - I do have vending cases from '87 back to '79 (not all yrs tho). And some wax back to '79 and OPC back to '76. My stuff is bush league next to those pics!
I know a guy in upstate NY that no one knows that hoarded wax - he still has cases back to '73. Back around 1992, he had around 20 cases of 78 and 79T - that's a total of 40 cases! And it's stored in the back of the house - so the gum is kept stable.
Thanx for the pics!
mike
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Those cases looked searched to me.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
I'm still catching my breath over this one.
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Dang, I wish they would sell more Candian beer varieties here in the states!! I get over to Canada about once a year, if lucky to go pick some up.
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I'm still catching my breath over this one. >>
Here's a story-
Dave and Adam’s Boosts Inventory With $900,000 Purchase:
In terms of purchasing unopened cases of cards, Dave and Adam’s Card World has just gotten its hands on the equivalent of a royal flush.
Late last month the company wrote a $900,000 check to a father-son collecting team from New Mexico for more than 400 cases of 1970s and 1980s basketball, football and baseball cards, among other things.
“Back in the early 1980s, this gentleman in New Mexico had a friend who told him to buy cases of cards and put them away,” says Adam Martin, co-owner of Dave and Adam’s. “So, he would buy a case a wax, a case of fat packs, a case of racks and he would just put them away. He stopped doing that in 1985, but a friend told him he should buy each Fleer Basketball case to put away. He did, but when Fleer Basketball wasn’t doing well at the time, he severed ties with his adviser, because he felt he got bad advice.”
Included in the purchase are unopened cases of 1986-87, 1987-88 and 1988-89 Fleer Basketball. Or, as Dave and Adam’s is calling it, the “Trinity of Modern Basketball Cards.”
“In terms of 1986-87 Fleer Basketball, we haven’t seen a case in five years, much less bought one,” Martin says. “This gentleman bought 1986-87 Fleer basketball at $10 a box and he sold it to us for $8,300 a box. We paid $100,000 a case.”
The company paid $10,000 a case on 1987-88 and $5,000 a case on 1988-89. Also included were cases of 1977 Topps Baseball and 1984 Topps Football.
“This is the largest purchase we’ve ever made from a collector,” Martin says. “We should make a decent profit on it, but the seller was very savvy. He was very aware and he had done a lot of research. It took us about a month to put this deal to bed.”
Martin says that company officials were initially weary about the collector’s claim of having such a large stock of cases.
“He e-mailed like 40 pictures of this second-story garage he’d built onto his palatial home just to store these cards,” says Reed Kasaoka, head buyer for Dave and Adam’s. “This area was temperature-controlled with carpeted floors and a thumb-print-technology security system. Unreal.”
Although some items from the purchase are reserved for private buyers, Martin said that the baseball and basketball inventory is already up on the company’s Web site, dacardworld.com, and that the football inventory Kasaoka says the majority of the inventory will be for sale on their website, dacardworld.com, sometime during the next week.
“This deal means that a lot of investment-worthy cases that haven’t been seen in the marketplace for years — cases that we frankly thought just may not be available — are available,” Martin says.
$9,299 for this case of 03-04 NBA Exquisite
1985 Topps cello....$4,500
This guy is selling 100 cases of this for $6,000+
Funny, he severed ties for the best advice one could possibly give him.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
Factory pic
For some strange reason I cannot find a '52 case pic. Guess these will suffice.
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LOL...I can remember my living room looking like that circa 1990 between card shows on weekends.
Seriously.....nice pics and VERY nice store layout!
Sweet Morsels Toffee and Chocolates
<< <i>OK, enough. Stop it. >>
No, please post more, more, more.
Where's the colorized version of the Woolworth's store?
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<< <i>OK, enough. Stop it. >>
No, please post more, more, more.
Where's the colorized version of the Woolworth's store? >>
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Anyone have the grocery store pic with boxes that has been posted here before?
Here's a few more. Running out of "case" pics though.
1951 Topps Redback
Wow!! $31k
1961 Topps
1977 Topps Mexican case.
1974 baseball wax case, I believe these were the 8 card packs, not the 10 card packs
1974 football wax case
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
<< <i>1973 basketball case
Vending!
1972 football wax case (3 series must be from Larry Fritsch)
1972 basketball wax case (Fritsch is on the shipping label)
That should hold everyone for awhile, have my fantasy draft tonight so you'll all have to wait till tomorrow for more LOL
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972
jmoran19- I only came to work today in hopes to see more pics from you.
This thread caused me to look at junk cases to purchase. (only ones within my budget) and I visioned my closet full of 1988 Topps and luckily witheld my urges to buy.
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972
<< <i>Here are some pics from my store in 1991/92. Some cases/lots of wax...I closed it down in 1996-got married,had children and got a real job. Now I sell all this stuff online....
Hey Tom,
I don't think you had to worry about anyone stealing THAT stuff - you'd be hard pressed to give it away even to a pack breaking addict! LOL
P.S. - Deven came calling about the Leyland NNO...
Bill
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<< <i>Here are some pics from my store in 1991/92. Some cases/lots of wax...I closed it down in 1996-got married,had children and got a real job. Now I sell all this stuff online....
Hey Tom,
I don't think you had to worry about anyone stealing THAT stuff - you'd be hard pressed to give it away even to a pack breaking addict! LOL
P.S. - Deven came calling about the Leyland NNO...
Bill >>
LOL on the wax! Ya looking back, most of that stuff is hard to give away now...
I kept most of my he end wax in the glass showcases. I had some 86 fleer basketball boxes, 75 topps wax and stuff like that.
Deven emailed me as well. I dont think he's too happy with me. I have 2 cards that he wants but told him im not interested in selling. I would rather trade for cards I need...
Tom
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972
<< <i>found these in my grandpa's shower
One of the coolest pics I've seen.
Possibly Donruss in 1988 after the 1st day of printing-