Went to my local card shop for some supplies and bought a box of 2009 Heritage and 2008 Leaf Certified Materials fb. Will be opening both starting with the Heritage.
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Very happy with the box even though I overpaid ($74.95 at the local card shop). Chromes are Jeter 1807/1960, Saunders 188/560, Snider 1334/1960, Snider 1333/1960, Loney 1686/1960. The Gonzalez is the incorrect logo super short-print.
2008 Leaf Certified Materials football box purchased from local card shop for $75. If John David Booty makes it big I am set since I seem to have pulled a ton of his auto-ed rookies.
Its amazing what luck one box buyers have with some products. I have seen over 100 boxes opened on the heritage thread and no one pulled a box that good. Congrats!
Grades are in for the 85 OPC Lemieux and 79 Topps Gretzky. Not particularly happy though the bottom left corner of the Lemieux was adversely impacted by the rough cut so I can see why it received an 8. The Gretzky even with the centering is no worse than an 8 so I will be cracking and resubmitting it at some point.
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1985 O-PEE-CHEE 9 MARIO LEMIEUX NEAR MINT 7 1979 TOPPS 18 WAYNE GRETZKY Date Received: 4/13/2009
First up 5 packs of 1982-83 OPC hockey. Packs purchased for $8.00 a piece from BBCE. Not much star power in the packs. I needed a Dale Hawerchuk rookie for my collection but sadly didn't hit one. I will sub the Gretzky Scoring Leader under the April special.
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NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1982 O-PEE-CHEE 243 WAYNE GRETZKY SCORING LEADER Date Received: 5/11/2009
Next 3 packs of 1981-82 OPC hockey. Packs were purchased for $30 a piece from BBCE. I need Glenn Anderson and Denis Savard for my collection. Decent packs but centering was all over the map and very rough cut. I may sub the Gretzky.
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NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1981 O-PEE-CHEE 392 WAYNE GRETZKY Date Received: 5/11/2009
3 packs of 1980/81 OPC hockey. Packs were purchased from BBCE for $60 each. I need Mike Gartner, Rod Langway and Michel Goulet rookies for my collection. Managed to pull a rookie I needed but unfortunately the Goulet card is OC, has wax residue (from being the top card) and a machine mark on the left edge but other than that it is a pretty nice card... I think I will sub some of the better centered commons to see what kind of grades they get. For $4.50 a card I will sub pretty much anything that has even a remote chance at a 9/10.
Edited to add grades:
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1980 O-PEE-CHEE 147 DAVE BURROWS NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1980 O-PEE-CHEE 146 LUCIEN DEBLOIS MINT 9 1980 O-PEE-CHEE 395 CHUCK LEFLEY NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1980 O-PEE-CHEE 12 DOUG WILSON Date Received: 5/11/2009
Next up 4 packs for 1978/79 OPC hockey purchased from BBCE for $18 per pack. I need both Mike Bossy and Bernie Federko for my collection. No big rookies but lots for HOFers. I will probably sub the Robinson & Sittler.
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NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1978 O-PEE-CHEE 30 DARRYL SITTLER NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1978 O-PEE-CHEE 210 LARRY ROBINSON Date Received: 5/11/2009
Next up 2 boxes of 1990-91 Score hockey purchased from BBCE for $5 per box. Looking for the Martin Brodeur rookie. I will open a pack of 75 Topps minis after the hockey is done. Pulled 3 Brodeur rookies but none are really PSA 10 material. Will sub one hoping for a 9 to add to my hockey collection.
Edited to add grades:
MINT 9 1990 SCORE 439 MARTIN BRODEUR Date Received: 5/11/2009
Bought the following during the last week or so for my May rips. After getting burned on the new label GAI graded 1970 Topps football pack have been purchasing mostly PSA graded older and/or more expensive packs. Just need to figure out how to crack them out of the PSA case now.
Robb, would you mind scanning that 71 baseball wrapper for me when you rip it? I've started on that set recently and would like to use a higher quality scan of the pack for my binder label than the one I already have.
Rooting for Robb to get one of the Big Three Rookies!
STAY HEALTHY!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
<< <i>Bought the following during the last week or so for my May rips. After getting burned on the new label GAI graded 1970 Topps football pack have been purchasing mostly PSA graded older and/or more expensive packs. Just need to figure out how to crack them out of the PSA case now.Robb >>
Robb ... this should do the trick!
STAY HEALTHY!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
I went to the card shop after a round of golf and purchased a 2009 Topps Heritage box and 2008 Topps Heritage high number box. I will also open the PSA 8 1979 OPC hockey pack today. This weekend I will be opening the 1973 Topps baseball 5th series PSA 8 wax pack and the 1972 Topps football 2nd series PSA 8 wax pack. Next week I will open the 1968 Topps baseball 1st series wax pack.
2008 Toops Heritage high number box purchased from my local card shop for $65. Got ink and a buyback. Very fun to open might have to do another box next time I drop by the card shop. Can someone PM me the short prints for the 2008 Heritage high numbers? Thanks,
2009 Topps Heritage box purchased at local card shop for $89 which seemed a little pricey to me but I wanted to open a box tonight. Pulled another auto (giving me 3 autos in 4 boxes opened this year). Volquez 254/560, Rodriguez 1483/1960, Kuroda 1615/1960, Longoria 179/560, Nady 1350/1960, Lackey 1910/1960.
Next up 1979 OPC Hockey pack graded PSA 8 purchased from BBCE for $280. Getting it out of the PSA holder was a pain and I will need to come up with a better method if I am going to continue to buy and open PSA graded packs. Used a hammer and screwdriver.
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
1972 Topps football 2nd series pack purchased from BBCE for $135. The Dawson was the top card (wax) and the Greenwood was the gum card. Nothing really worth submitting. The nicest card is the Atkinson but that is only a $19.99 card in PSA 9.
Robb ... Hoping the '73 BB Pack brings you nice cards to submit!
STAY HEALTHY!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
1973 Topps baseball 5th series pack purchased from BBCE for $250.00. No cards worth submitting from this pack. The checklist was the top card and has a machine mark and wax. The Crandall was the gum card. Overall fun to rip but probably not worth the price point.
Comments
Will be opening both starting with the Heritage.
Robb
Good luck on the rip!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Chromes are Jeter 1807/1960, Saunders 188/560, Snider 1334/1960, Snider 1333/1960, Loney 1686/1960.
The Gonzalez is the incorrect logo super short-print.
a box that good. Congrats!
Kevin
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1985 O-PEE-CHEE 9 MARIO LEMIEUX
NEAR MINT 7 1979 TOPPS 18 WAYNE GRETZKY
Date Received: 4/13/2009
Robb
Robb
Not much star power in the packs. I needed a Dale Hawerchuk rookie for my collection but sadly didn't hit one. I will sub the Gretzky Scoring Leader under the April special.
Edited to add grades:
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1982 O-PEE-CHEE 243 WAYNE GRETZKY SCORING LEADER
Date Received: 5/11/2009
Decent packs but centering was all over the map and very rough cut. I may sub the Gretzky.
Edited to add grades:
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1981 O-PEE-CHEE 392 WAYNE GRETZKY
Date Received: 5/11/2009
thanks
Managed to pull a rookie I needed but unfortunately the Goulet card is OC, has wax residue (from being the top card) and a machine mark on the left edge but other than that it is a pretty nice card...
I think I will sub some of the better centered commons to see what kind of grades they get. For $4.50 a card I will sub pretty much anything that has even a remote chance at a 9/10.
Edited to add grades:
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1980 O-PEE-CHEE 147 DAVE BURROWS
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1980 O-PEE-CHEE 146 LUCIEN DEBLOIS
MINT 9 1980 O-PEE-CHEE 395 CHUCK LEFLEY
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1980 O-PEE-CHEE 12 DOUG WILSON
Date Received: 5/11/2009
No big rookies but lots for HOFers. I will probably sub the Robinson & Sittler.
Edited to add grades:
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1978 O-PEE-CHEE 30 DARRYL SITTLER
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1978 O-PEE-CHEE 210 LARRY ROBINSON
Date Received: 5/11/2009
Thanks for taking the time to share your scans and rips
Pulled 3 Brodeur rookies but none are really PSA 10 material. Will sub one hoping for a 9 to add to my hockey collection.
Edited to add grades:
MINT 9 1990 SCORE 439 MARTIN BRODEUR
Date Received: 5/11/2009
Robb
thanks
Bosox1976
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Bosox1976
<< <i>Bought the following during the last week or so for my May rips. After getting burned on the new label GAI graded 1970 Topps football pack have been purchasing mostly PSA graded older and/or more expensive packs. Just need to figure out how to crack them out of the PSA case now.Robb >>
Robb ... this should do the trick!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Edited to add grades:
NEAR MINT 7 1975 TOPPS MINI 54 ERIC SODERHOLM
Date Received: 5/11/2009
Now collecting:
Topps Heritage
1957 Topps BB Ex+-NM
All Yaz Items 7+
Various Red Sox
Did I leave anything out?
Robb
Bosox1976
Thanks,
Robb
Bosox1976
Getting it out of the PSA holder was a pain and I will need to come up with a better method if I am going to continue to buy and open PSA graded packs. Used a hammer and screwdriver.
Edited to add grades:
NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1979 O-PEE-CHEE 246 SABRES TEAM
Date Received: 5/11/2009
Bosox1976
Nick
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Next up a 1972 Topps football 2nd series pack graded PSA 8 and a 1973 Topps baseball 5th series pack graded PSA 8.
2000 Bowman Chrome
2002 Topps Heritage NAP
2003 Topps Heritage chrome and seat relics
2006 Topps Heritage refractors and relics
2007 Topps Heritage refractors and relics
2008 Topps Heritage refractors and relics
2006 Topps Heritage and Topps Chrome football
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Robb
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972