Memories of 1992 @ White Plains, NY Gloria Rothstein show

halfcentman

I SAVED MY INVENTORY LIST FOR THE SHOW. I had been putting stuff away for a long time for over a year.

I HAD THE FOLLOWING ITEMS. THESE CARDS WERE PREMIUM FOR THE GRADE:

Basketball

1980-81 Topps Bird/Magic: 10

Hockey

1979-80 Gretzky Topps Rookies: 10 and 3 O-Pee-Chee (all NM-MT)

Baseball

#1 card collection of Topps Cards from 1952-1974. Average condition Near Mint (even by today's standards)

Football (my specialty)

Namath cards: 1965 (1, EX-MT+), 1966-1973 (5 of each, all NM-MT, including the 1972 IA)

Unitas and Starr rookies (5) and 2nd year (5), all NM to NM-MT

Jim Brown (my FAVORITE small-size card): 10 in NM to NM-MT (paid an average of $100.00 a piece for them)

Three, 1966 Funny Ring Checklists, all NM-MT

15, 1981 Montanas (mostly Mint)

25, Lawrence Taylor rookies (always like that card): MINT

25 count of lot of Jerry Rice rookies, probably all 8.5's by today's standards.

My inventory lasted all of 30 minutes and was bought out. It's the only time that my inventory was bought out in all my years in the coin and card business. I was 25 years old.

Greg

otwcards

Nice to see where my OPC Premier profits went!

cardsnbeads

Those were the Good Old Days when card collecting was still strong. I was only 10 years and remember actually making money off Sportscards. Look at the death of card shops and card shows. Malls used to have card shows every few months. It all went down hill with the Baseball Strike and never really came back. The Hobby probably peaked between 1988 and 1993. I think 1990 was the greatest year for card collecting. That was when I got much of my Baseball Hall of Famers. Whitey Ford was Only $10 to sign a Ball now he is like $75to$80.