1980's Monster Sub with a PSA 10 Gem Mint 1989 Fleer Glossy Ken Griffey Jr....Scans added

Dpeck100 · July 8, 2011 6:43AM

I just got these grades today and I am supper pumped!!!

The only bummer was the Kerry Von Erich which was a BGS 9.5x4 Gem Mint crackout and it came back a PSA 8 NM-Mt.

Order #20514214 / Submission #5076946
Line # Item # Cert # Grade Description Type Country
1 1 18761404 MINT 9 1985 PANINI SUPERSPORT ITALIAN 153 MIKE TYSON ITALIAN Card US
1 2 18761405 MINT 9 1985 PANINI SUPERSPORT ITALIAN 153 MIKE TYSON ITALIAN Card US
1 3 18761406 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1985 PANINI SUPERSPORT ITALIAN 153 MIKE TYSON ITALIAN Card US
2 1 18761407 MINT 9 1987 PANINI SUPERSPORT ITALIAN 160 ITALIAN TYSON-160, BIANCHI-41 Card US
3 1 18761408 MINT 9 1988 WONDERAMA NWA WRESTLING SUPERSTARS 341 ROAD WARRIORS & PAUL ELLERING Card US
4 1 18761409 GEM MINT 10 1988 WONDERAMA NWA WRESTLING SUPERSTARS 339 FOUR HORSEMEN Card US
5 1 18761410 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 WRESTLING ALL-STARS 23 BUDDY ROSE Card US
6 1 18761411 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1982 WRESTLING ALL-STARS-SERIES B 7 KERRY VON ERICH Card US
7 1 18761412 GEM MINT 10 1982 WRESTLING ALL-STARS-SERIES B 22 JIMMY VALIANT Card US
8 1 18761413 MINT 9 1982 WRESTLING ALL-STARS SERIES A 14 PEDRO MORALES Card US
9 1 18761414 MINT 9 1982 WRESTLING ALL-STARS SERIES A 5 THE JUNKYARD DOG Card US
10 1 18761415 MINT 9 1985 TOPPS TIFFANY 536 KIRBY PUCKETT Card US
11 1 18761416 MINT 9 1985 TOPPS TIFFANY 401 MARK McGWIRE 84 USA BASEBALL TEAM Card US
12 1 18761417 MINT 9 1984 FLEER UPDATE U-27 ROGER CLEMENS Card US
13 1 18761418 GEM MINT 10 1989 FLEER GLOSSY 548 KEN GRIFFEY JR. Card US
14 1 18761419 MINT 9 1985 O-PEE-CHEE WWF PRO WRESTLING STARS-SERIES 2 63 RANDY SAVAGE & ELIZABETH Card US
15 1 18761420 MINT 9 1984 TOPPS TRADED TIFFANY 42T DWIGHT GOODEN Card US
16 1 18761421 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1986 TOPPS TRADED TIFFANY 11T BARRY BONDS Card US
17 1 18761422 MINT 9 1989 BOWMAN TIFFANY 220 KEN GRIFFEY JR. Card US
18 1 18761423 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1989 TOPPS TRADED TIFFANY 41T KEN GRIFFEY JR. Card US
Total Items: 20

Hallco · July 8, 2011 6:46AM

I miss being a pre-teen and teenager....wrestling was so good back then! Congrats on the sub overall...BGS might have missed something maybe on the Von Erich??

YogiBerraFan · July 8, 2011 6:49AM

Nice grades

Dpeck100 · July 8, 2011 6:53AM

Hallco,

I was thinking it could be a PSA 9 and was not expecting a PSA 10. As I have said many times they are no where near as tough on the Wrestling All Stars.

A PSA 8 Kerry Von Erich is still a great card. I will lose money on this one though for sure but it is only on paper as I am not a seller.

miconelegacy · July 8, 2011 7:46AM

Nice job Dpeck building the retirement nest egg!!!

ThoseBackPages · July 8, 2011 8:14AM

Very nice grades!

did you bust the Glossy and Tiffany sets yourself to sub those raws?

Dpeck100 · July 8, 2011 8:27AM

Yes I recently bought two sealed 89 Fleer Glossy from BBCX and nailed the Gem Mint Griffey. I posted it as a raw scan on here about two months ago.

The 85 Tiffany I have had on display for the past 8 years or so and decided to get them graded. The same with the Griffey Jr. Bowman Tiffany.

The 84 PSA 9 Clemens came from the same set as the Puckett Gem Mint 10 I got and was also on display. In 1998 this was my prized possesion and I thought I was rich

I recently sold the Puckett on EBAY.

The 84 Topps Tiffany Gooden is a EBAY raw buy from the past month or so.

The two Tyson PSA 9's I got from the seller in Cyprus and I plan on busting the sealed box I have in the mail from him and going for a 10.

The second year Tyson came from Martin Bradford about a year ago when I first started buying Tyson cards.

eagles33 · July 8, 2011 8:35AM

great cards. very nice sub.

e64mtd · July 8, 2011 9:01AM

"The only bummer was the Kerry Von Erich which was a BGS 9.5x4 Gem Mint crackout and it came back a PSA 8 NM-Mt."

Must be yet another sign of Beckett's demise. You realize it's not Beckett's fault when you damage a card while doing a crack out, right?

Dpeck100 · July 8, 2011 9:03AM

Comical post. There was no damage to the card what so ever.

pdub1819 · July 8, 2011 9:05AM

Are you going to be selling the Clemens? That's the only card I need to complete his rookie run.

Dpeck100 · July 8, 2011 9:07AM

Here is an example of a BGS 9.5 that will grade no higher then a PSA 8. This card is terribly off centered top to bottom.

You most likely will never see a PSA 10 Hogan because of centering. The same holds true for Kerry Von Erich.

BGS 9.5 Hogan

Dpeck100 · July 8, 2011 9:08AM

Yes I will sell the Clemens. Once I get it back I will PM you and we can discuss a price.

Scottiec2288 · July 8, 2011 9:10AM

Nice Grades

e64mtd · July 8, 2011 10:06AM

<< <i>Comical post. There was no damage to the card what so ever. >>

Somehow, given your propensity for exaggeration, I'm doubting that.

<< <i>Here is an example of a BGS 9.5 that will grade no higher then a PSA 8. This card is terribly off centered top to bottom.

You most likely will never see a PSA 10 Hogan because of centering. The same holds true for Kerry Von Erich.

BGS 9.5 Hogan >>

Well, obviously you're making that determination based on top/bottom centering and, I agree, it does look off but it's hard to make a measurement from T/B with a picture taken from that angle. I would consider the border to to begin from the end of the white point in the top right corner.

Here's an example of a "PSA 10" from a set that I collect. This card is all but impossible to find properly centered and I would consider this border to be quite off T/B but it's in a "10" holder nonetheless:

PSA 10

Here's a more properly centered Topps version:

Properly Centered

And here's another PSA 10 example from the same set, off T/B:

PSA 10 #2

Here you go though, you can just sweep it under this:

Link

Toro · July 8, 2011 10:06AM

Nice grades and very nice player/card selection.

tsalems1 · July 8, 2011 10:12AM

13 1 18761418 GEM MINT 10 1989 FLEER GLOSSY 548 KEN GRIFFEY JR. Card US

GREAT job!

That is 1 hell of a card to have

Dpeck100 · July 8, 2011 10:17AM

Thank you.

This is my biggest pull ever by far.

miconelegacy · July 8, 2011 10:36AM

Yeah I want one of those. There is 1 Griffey Glossy PSA 10 up now. Bidding at $661 with 3 plus days. That card has to have a lot of attention. I'm guessing, but I would pay a grand for that card, which really, I think it can go up near 2K.

It's really the best card from 82 to 92, and certainly for a base card if you will, not in the jersey, game used era. 93 brings Jeter. But for a solid decade that's the one. Non steroid user, and the one that brought me closer to the game as a teenager.

Dpeck100 · July 8, 2011 10:47AM

The last one on EBAY sold for $1,276.

There is a fraction of these compared to the Upper Deck.

This is a keeper for me.

kingbeeswax · July 8, 2011 11:05AM

Very nice! Good job on the Macho Man PSA 9!

Dpeck100 · July 8, 2011 11:43AM

Too funny!

I was just telling my neighbor Jason that no one had noticed that card.

That is a major Wrestling card!!!

kingbeeswax · July 8, 2011 12:03PM

Yes it is. Any OPC in that grade is, with that being one of the most wanted cards. I am going for a Hogan #1 PSA 10(I might have told you this before). I have 16 or 17 from 55 rack packs going to PSA in August along with more from the set.

Dpeck100 · July 8, 2011 12:12PM

A Hogan PSA 10 #1 from the 1985 WWF Topps set would be $500+++++++++

I would be interested in a card like that.

The Macho Man PSA 9 is a total stunner. I bought 10 sets from Canada Collect and got an extra Macho. This was the gem of the bunch.

At some point I am going to sub some other cards from the set.

Big80s · July 8, 2011 1:07PM

Amazing submission, man - those Tyson's are awesome, too! I'm happy mine is the UK version - because you would have destroyed it's pop 1 status. Congrats again!

wallst32 · July 8, 2011 1:47PM

Congrats on the Griffey Glossy PSA 10.

Which card is tougher in high grade the Bowman Tiffany or the Fleer Glossy?

Boopotts · July 8, 2011 2:38PM

Wow- I had no idea how tough that glossy Griffey RC really was. Congratulations on that- it's one heck of a hit.

thenavarro · July 8, 2011 2:47PM

Nice eye David. You've got some nice hits in that sub.

Mike

Dpeck100 · July 9, 2011 12:19AM

Thanks guys.

I kept looking this week for them to pop and yesterday around noon I checked one more time and they were there.

I about fell out of my chair at work!

I went through a lot of cards to put this toghether hoping for some big hits.

simon2010 · July 10, 2011 3:13AM

best of luck with your sealed box,i bought a box about year ago and only hit one tyson as u can imagine i was disappointed

Dpeck100 · July 10, 2011 4:02AM

Yikes!

I sure hope I get more then one for $675.

I plan to sub some of the other stickers to try and recoup some of the cost.

eagles33 · July 10, 2011 5:15AM

I just picked up a few packs on ebay. I'm pretty interested to see what else is in this set. I think the only other rookies are carl lewis and greg norman. Some of the other boxing and basketball in a high grade could sell well too... I think. I'm not even 100 percent sure this is the same set that the carl lewis and greg norman are from. For some reason I thought there 600 cards in this set but think I confused it with a set from the 70s. I haven't seen a card over 225 so think you should expect 2 to 3 tysons. Does anyone know if you can see the top or bottom card in the pack. This would be a pretty cool unopened pack with a star on top

Dpeck100 · July 10, 2011 5:21AM

I plan to sub some of the other stars like Steffi Graf and Greg Lamond.

Any really dominate athlete should do okay in high grade.

The basketball stars are needed in player registry sets so they could do okay too.

wrestlingcardking · July 10, 2011 6:01AM

There are 221 cards in the set and there are 600 cards in the box. 100 packs with six cards per pack. There is a Carl Lewis in there. I have a single somewhere in my collection. That would be a cool one graded or signed.

Dpeck100 · July 10, 2011 6:03AM

Rob thanks for chiming in.

I really have no idea what to expect and just hope it turns out well. To me it seems like a good gamble but time will tell.

Dpeck100 · July 11, 2011 5:55AM

I just got the cards back today and I will post some scans in a little while.

Dpeck100 · July 11, 2011 7:42AM

Mike Tyson PSA 9 Mint

Mike Tyson PSA 6 EX-MT

Mike Tyson PSA 9 Mint

The Road Warriors PSA 9 Mint

The Four Horsemen PSA 10 Gem Mint

Buddy Rose PSA 8

Kerry Von Erich PSA 8

Jimmy Valiant PSA 10 Gem Mint

Pedro Morales PSA 9 Mint

The Junkyard Dog PSA 9 Mint

Kirby Puckett PSA 9 Mint

Mark McGwire PSA 9 Mint

Roger Clemens PSA 9 Mint

Ken Griffey Jr. PSA 10 Gem Mint

Randy Savage PSA 9 Mint

Dwight Gooden PSA 9 Mint

Barry Bonds PSA 8

Ken Griffey Jr. PSA 9 Mint

Ken Griffey Jr. PSA 8

RookieWax · July 11, 2011 8:52AM

Why did the Topps Tiffany Griffey get only an 8? It is centered better than most you see, as they are often found off-center side-to-side.

tunahead08 · July 11, 2011 8:55AM

Nice stuff!!

Dpeck100 · July 11, 2011 9:31AM

I think the centering was just a touch off and the corners are barely touched. It is a very high end PSA 8 for sure.

ThoseBackPages · July 11, 2011 10:05AM

those are so beautiful!

Dpeck100 · July 11, 2011 11:02AM

Thank you.

I raced to the post office to pick them up at 8:30 this morning.

This was one of the cases where I certainly did not pay for enough insurance there and back. I usually guess high just in case but not high enough this time.

LodiBrewFan · July 11, 2011 10:52PM

Dpeck,

Very nice sub. Some of the 'rock star' cards from the 80's and all with good grades! Well Done!

Please don't take this the wrong way, both of the 85 Tiffanys seemed to have yellowed and both have a really really opc-like cut on the bottom. Neither defect kept either one from a PSA 9 slab. What is your opinion on these two cards?

Really not trying to down talk your sub, overall it is one that we all would be proud to find in our own mailbox.

Dpeck100 · July 12, 2011 8:17AM

Yes they both have an OPC ruff cut on the edges. In terms of yellowing it may be the scan.

Both came from a factory set and are sharp cards. I am a terrible judge of condition on ruff cut cards with very little experience.

I sent them in with an open mind and they both came back PSA 9 Mint. I will leave it up to PSA on these.

Some times scans can be misleading.

swartz1 · July 12, 2011 8:25AM

Is the Griffey tilted in the holder or is it cut that way...

regardless, nice 10

RedHeart54 · July 12, 2011 8:59AM

Yellowing is pretty typical for 80s Tiffany sets, isn't it?

Great sub!

Dpeck100 · July 12, 2011 10:47AM

The Mike Tyson and Randy Savage were the two cards I was looking for. I wanted both of these in Mint condition.

I am very pleased with many of the others and have a few up and may consider a few more.

1980's Monster Sub with a PSA 10 Gem Mint 1989 Fleer Glossy Ken Griffey Jr....Scans added

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