@Stingray said:
Why is the McGwire in a plastic sleeve??
They typically do that for cards that are slightly oversized.
Nice results, Arthur!
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.
So I just ripped another box of '87 Leaf. Got two packs with Bo Jackson on the back and some other stars showing but the highlight of the box was the very first card I saw. Flipped the stack and tossed the puzzle piece to reveal this bad mamma jamma. Yahtzee!
@miwlvrn said:
I've got a few boxes of '80's Leaf sitting around here that I had planned to keep sealed but when I see your pics it makes me consider ripping...
I should probably throw up some pics of what the box mostly looked like then. I'd say 50% of the box was either miscut or 90/10 centered. I set aside all star, HOF, and Rated Rookie cards that looked like they might be worth taking a closer look at (it wasn't a large stack). After I finished with the rippage, I sat down with my 10x and my super duper awesome LED light and went over them all. Only one card didn't get voted off the island -- a Greg Swindell Rated Rookie.
I want to make one thing abundantly clear: before the mid-90s, Canadians HATED baseball cards. I think they saved money at the printer's by not machine cutting them and, instead, inviting Pierre LeMonde's Tuesday afternoon 10-12 year old kung fu class to come down and hack at the sheets with training blades. There's a reason why some of these Leaf cards have such low PSA 10 percentages. I believe my experiences are not normal and I've been extremely fortunate. I mean, there might as well have been a heavenly glow behind this Bo and the faint song of a choir audible when it revealed itself. Rip these packs at your own risk.
Yes, but at least those boxes are relatively inexpensive to begin with. I have a 1980 hockey box that keeps suggesting to me that it would be happier opened instead of sealed, but when I compare the potential there with the brutal look of the 1980 Topps baseball rip someone posted here recently with a thread, I think I'd be too nervous to go for it on a box that costs 10x as much as the Leaf ones.
Oh definitely, much cheaper. The only issue is finding them. There's a few BBCE wrapped on ebay but aside from when I got mine it had been many months since Steve had some.
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They typically do that for cards that are slightly oversized.
Nice results, Arthur!
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.
Do you mean undersized?? If it was oversized wouldn't it less likely for movement in the holder??
Can go either way, undersized in the holders w/rails, oversized in the holders w/o. In this specific case, it's under T/B.
The thread that would not die.
Arthur
So I just ripped another box of '87 Leaf. Got two packs with Bo Jackson on the back and some other stars showing but the highlight of the box was the very first card I saw. Flipped the stack and tossed the puzzle piece to reveal this bad mamma jamma. Yahtzee!
Arthur
Such iconic 80s cards!
Bo Knows Centering
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
I've got a few boxes of '80's Leaf sitting around here that I had planned to keep sealed but when I see your pics it makes me consider ripping...
I should probably throw up some pics of what the box mostly looked like then. I'd say 50% of the box was either miscut or 90/10 centered. I set aside all star, HOF, and Rated Rookie cards that looked like they might be worth taking a closer look at (it wasn't a large stack). After I finished with the rippage, I sat down with my 10x and my super duper awesome LED light and went over them all. Only one card didn't get voted off the island -- a Greg Swindell Rated Rookie.
I want to make one thing abundantly clear: before the mid-90s, Canadians HATED baseball cards. I think they saved money at the printer's by not machine cutting them and, instead, inviting Pierre LeMonde's Tuesday afternoon 10-12 year old kung fu class to come down and hack at the sheets with training blades. There's a reason why some of these Leaf cards have such low PSA 10 percentages. I believe my experiences are not normal and I've been extremely fortunate. I mean, there might as well have been a heavenly glow behind this Bo and the faint song of a choir audible when it revealed itself. Rip these packs at your own risk.
Arthur
Yes, but at least those boxes are relatively inexpensive to begin with. I have a 1980 hockey box that keeps suggesting to me that it would be happier opened instead of sealed, but when I compare the potential there with the brutal look of the 1980 Topps baseball rip someone posted here recently with a thread, I think I'd be too nervous to go for it on a box that costs 10x as much as the Leaf ones.
Oh definitely, much cheaper. The only issue is finding them. There's a few BBCE wrapped on ebay but aside from when I got mine it had been many months since Steve had some.
Arthur