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Saturday show & tell: 1971 Bazooka boxes

BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,034 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I recently acquired these six 1971 Bazooka boxes. I can vividly remember seeing these in my local grocery store as a kid:

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Daniel

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  • PaulMaulPaulMaul Posts: 4,891 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those are great! 1971 has got to be my favorite overall year for bubble gum card related items.
    My 1972 Baseball and Wacky Pack Registry Sets
  • QUITCRABQUITCRAB Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭
    I am putting a set together. Need the box with frank Howard and a Clemente box. Let me know if your selling the Howard box. Thanks. Scott
    I have some doubles to trade or sell
  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Nice pickup Daniel. How many different boxes are there in total?

    I'd like to say I remember these, but I wasn't even in kindergarten yet.
    "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep."

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

    Collecting:
    Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is PSA grading these now? Mine was returned as "too big" the last time I sent it in!

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    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
  • jmoran19jmoran19 Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭
    I still have one of those ball strike indicators!

    Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972

  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Joe that sounds like BS to me, that they put it on the master set composite but won't grade it.
  • cincyredlegscincyredlegs Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭
    Very nice Daniel. I have the Bench box as well.

    Mark
    Project:

    T206 Set - 300/524
  • BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,034 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for the comments, all.

    PSA is grading these boxes but they fold down one of the flaps in order to fit into a holder. I had heard you need to sign a release for them to do that.
    Joe - That Reggie box looks awesome! PaulMaul - I'm with you on 1971. I think between Bazooka boxes and Topps Greatest Moments, there is a lot of challnge. I also collect the regular issue Topps cards of HOFers (genreally in PSA 7 condition). CPAMike - I think there are 16 boxes in the set. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong or if you know if there are some boxes that are scarcer than others.
    Daniel
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,743 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Nice pickup Daniel. How many different boxes are there in total?

    I'd like to say I remember these, but I wasn't even in kindergarten yet. >>



    Ask Doug, he was in college by then.. image

    Nice boxes, Daniel! Love the graphics!


    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.
  • QUITCRABQUITCRAB Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭
    12 boxes in the set. Second easiest bazooka set to put together. The 69 set is easiest in my opinion. The tough part about the 69 set is that the top flaps are cut off the box a lot of the time. There is no 1970 bazooka set

    The 71 set is also found numbered with a couple different players on the checklist but only as panels and singles.( no full numbered boxes) The panels are extremely rare and the singles are usually mis cut the numbered cards are on a white card stock not gray . There is no box or card in the 71 unnumbered set that is harder to find then others .
  • QUITCRABQUITCRAB Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭
    I think there may have been only one 1971 bazooka numbered box discovered with Mays on it. This was a test/proof never released to the general public
  • TheDudeAbidesTheDudeAbides Posts: 400 ✭✭✭
    They do fold at least one tab. I won't send mine in for grading for that simple fact. Heck, they will give a PSA 5 to near mint to mint Milk Duds Box at the drop of a hat. Yet they'll slap a grade on a folded box. Come on.
    Collecting 64, 66, 67, 70 & 71 Baseball. Cubs, wax, cello & rack baseball.
  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just a shout out to all the posters who display pictures in the threads. It's great to see many items pictured of product that I've never seen or long forgotten about, like the Bazooka boxes in this thread. One of the many positives I've enjoyed since joining this most informative forum. image
    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>Ask Doug, he was in college by then.. image >>


    Well Tim, if it was the 71/72 school year, I was only 5 years away! LOL

    Man, I remember these things VERY well. My grandfather used to chew TONS of Bazooka Gum EVERY DAY! At least a couple of these boxes were in his room at all times. And of course the boxes were thrown out after the gum was finished!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    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.
  • bobsbbcardsbobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I think there may have been only one 1971 bazooka numbered box discovered with Mays on it. This was a test/proof never released to the general public >>


    Correct. Here's the one I picked up last year.

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    bobsbbcards PSA Registry Sets
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  • QUITCRABQUITCRAB Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭
    Bob--a full box with Mays...not a panel. I think I once saw a full numbered box. Is there one out there?
  • ajwajw Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Just a shout out to all the posters who display pictures in the threads. It's great to see many items pictured of product that I've never seen or long forgotten about, like the Bazooka boxes in this thread. One of the many positives I've enjoyed since joining this most informative forum. image >>



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