OPC hockey checklist demand

Boddington

What is the attraction with early OPC hockey checklists? Is there the same demand in the other sports for these?

I can't understand why a high grade checklist in a lot of cases is the highest dollar value card in a set (at least the early OPC examples).
I understand that unmarked checklists in high grade are low pop cards, but no more so than alot of the other cards in a set.

I like them as much as anyone, but can't justify shelling out big $$ for cards that don't even have a player on them (except text). I don't even mind if they're OC.

So what is the attraction?

Jim

divecchia

I'm not a hockey collector now, but I was 35 years ago and I remember checking all the cards I had on my checklist. I would imagine a lot of young children did that or did like my friends that collected and they threw the checklists out, because the card did not have a player on it. So I think this resulted in less NM checklists that remained in peoples collections making them harder to find today.

Donato

johnny1976

Donato

I agree with you. I think it was common practice, before cards had any value, to mark the check list with the cards you had. Thats why unmarked higher graded check lists are more expensive.

nightcrawler

I don't have a whole bunch, maybe 25 or 30 in total. But I collect checklists for sets I might be interested in later on.