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thekid8 · January 8, 2009 11:40PM

Does anyone remember Den's Collectors Den?

If I recall correctly they were a card/supply shop based out of Maryland(?)
In my youth I would find their ad's in the back of sports mags and maybe Beckett price guides (will check some back issues) I would buy card pages in all sizes ~ 5 at a time ~ and would mail cash and coins in a regular envelope. I still have many of the pages (which has their name on the border) stored away -- will not put anything in them because if I dropped them they would shatter like glass. The memory of that time, receiving a package from them and spending hours setting up pages is golden.
Mike

MBMiller25 · January 8, 2009 11:47PM

I dont remember them.

larryallen73 · January 9, 2009 12:17AM

For sure!

Knopfler · January 9, 2009 12:20AM

Remember them well. As a matter of fact, if you saw my thread a week or so ago where I asked if plastic pages were recyclable because I was finally getting around to moving my '76 set from side load pages to top load pages, all of the old side load pages were from Den's and had the name printed on the edge as you mentioned. I remember getting lot's of hard single and dual card holders from them as well with a black paper border that would go around the cards.

fiveniner · January 9, 2009 12:24AM

I remember DEns Collectors Den he was Partners with Beckett back in the very late 70s and early 80s.They split up about then and Beckett went on his own and Denny Ecks later passed away at a rather early age.

Tony.

thekid8 · January 9, 2009 12:42AM

<< <i>....... Denny Ecks later passed away at a rather early age.

Tony. >>

It was a sad day when a order I placed was returned with a note that said "with the passing of Den we are no longer in business"

IchiroDeported · January 9, 2009 1:01AM

absolutely, i bought quite a bit of stuff from them.

uyu906 · January 9, 2009 2:30AM

I remember the "Den" and Denny. He used to come to card shows held at the York Vo-Tech High School in York, PA when I was a kid, ca. late 1970's-1982. These shows always had a live auction of stuff anyone wanted to auction at no minimum bid. I remember him buying a 1960 large format Mickey Mantle Post box panel for about $100 and looking around the room to see if any of the other people in the room were going to bid. I had never seen a card sell for $100 or more at that point, and it made quite an impression. In retrospect, I think he was surprised he was the only bidder willing to go that high on that card. At the time I thought he was crazy, I along with the majority of other York Countians were/are die hard Baltimore Orioles fans and couldn't give a hoot about Mantle or the Yankees.

Ladder7 · January 9, 2009 3:05AM

Yorkies?

EarlsWorld · January 9, 2009 3:18AM

<< <i>Does anyone remember Den's Collectors Den?

If I recall correctly they were a card/supply shop based out of Maryland(?)
In my youth I would find their ad's in the back of sports mags and maybe Beckett price guides (will check some back issues) I would buy card pages in all sizes ~ 5 at a time ~ and would mail cash and coins in a regular envelope. I still have many of the pages (which has their name on the border) stored away -- will not put anything in them because if I dropped them they would shatter like glass. The memory of that time, receiving a package from them and spending hours setting up pages is golden.
Mike >>

Hi Mike~

I remember Den's Collector's Den. I believe DENNIS W. ECKES owned this establishment - the co-author of THE SPORT AMERICANA BASEBALL CARD CHECKLIST (1983). I also believe he was a co-author (along with James Beckett) of the very first baseball & football price guide book that first came out in 1979/1980. I have both books - the price guide did not survive so well but Eckes' CHECKLIST book is still like new because I hardly ever used it. Your question brings back a lot of great memories from a time I call the GOLDEN AGE OF COLLECTING!

EARL

ArchStanton · January 9, 2009 6:55AM

I never new who he was, but I bought sets that came from The Den. I picked up '76, '78 & '79 baseball a few years ago. I have never been able to part with them. I posted pictures of my '76 set before.