Who flipped cards, for color?
EchoCanyon
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I did.
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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>Larrys ... shades ... picks no owes! (I am sure anybody under 45 or so has no friggin idea what I am talking about!) >>
I did and there was always a disclaimer statement recited before every flip. Can't for the life of me remember what it was. I am under 45 too. But just barely .... and LOL @ shades! Man, what a throw back.
ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240
THAT was my disclaimer before we started.
LARRYS - I go last.
SHADES - Back in the 60s (as we all know) the colors were not always the same when they were printed on the cards. So light red or dark red, it didn't matter.
PICKS NO OWES - Lets say we both started with 10 cards. After a short time I had only 4 cards left and you had 16. After I go thru my last 4 cards there is still no match, so there is a pile of 8 cards. I would pick them up and when it was my turn I would take the card from the bottom of the pile and place it on top, as if it were my card. For every time you picked from the bottom, if you won, you would have to give the other guy that many cards back. "NO OWES" meant you did not have to.
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.
It's funny, I was just thinking about this subject this morning. It's funny that he used to "flip" cards, and now I "flip" cards, but with a different meaning (buy low then sell high). Pretty cool.
Once in a great while some of the guys would "flip" cards. First guy went and flipped his. The second guy would have to "match" the first guy. If the first card landed "front" up then the 2nd guy had to have his land "front" up. If it did he took both cards. If not then the first guy took both of them.
One other game that was played a little was as follows: Each guy would take the same amount of cards (usually 5) and place them on an angle leaning up against the wall. Both guys would stand about 10 feet away from the wall and take turns tossing one card (like a Frisbee) at the ones up against the wall. If you knocked any cards down you took those. Kept it up until all the cards were gone.
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>Once in a great while some of the guys would "flip" cards. First guy went and flipped his.
The second guy would have to "match" the first guy. If the first card landed "front" up then the
2nd guy had to have his land "front" up. If it did he took both cards. If not then the first guy took both of them. >>
We played something like that with 1968 and 1969 Topps. The circle colors were perfect for this.
Didn't flip the cards but played it like the traditional card game "war". First guy plays his card
and then the second had to match the circle color to take both. Played until your entire stack
was gone. Winner take all.
Usually the star cards were removed prior to playing but many a great card was lost this way.
DaveB in St.Louis
<< <i>"Picks no owes" was "picksies no paysies" in my neighborhood. >>
Daniel ... if you said "picksies no paysies" in my NY neighborhood when I was a kid, they would just TAKE your cards from you! LOL
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.
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<< <i>"Picks no owes" was "picksies no paysies" in my neighborhood. >>
Daniel ... if you said "picksies no paysies" in my NY neighborhood when I was a kid, they would just TAKE your cards from you! LOL >>
Doug, thanks for sharing your story...always interesting to hear about T-206 cards being flipped back then..
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
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<< <i>"Picks no owes" was "picksies no paysies" in my neighborhood. >>
Daniel ... if you said "picksies no paysies" in my NY neighborhood when I was a kid, they would just TAKE your cards from you! LOL >>
Doug, thanks for sharing your story...always interesting to hear about T-206 cards being flipped back then.. >>
And you shoulda seen what weese guys did to da wise a$$e$ back den.
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.