The Buyers Group Exposed

bishop

Stone193

Is this your sheet Al?

Had to look up who they were - Wall Street dudes?

Wonder how much it cost to have something like this made up in 1989?

PM me if ya want to head out for lunch and hit a few card shops?

esquiresports

Very cool! I suspect it's a mix of investment bankers and Topps personnel, with each being on one team (Blowouts and GreenShoes). This is a version of a "deal toy" that you often seen made to commemorate a capital markets offering (debt or, in this case, stock).

bishop

Mike-- I picked the sheet up as an oddity in a REA auction. Apparently a vanity issue for a investment firm staff. Can not find any real Topps stock or other associated transaction in that time frame. Backs have bios on all the people pictured.

I have collected other Topps vanity issues like the 91 President Bush, the 77 and 91 Garagiola business cards, the 84 Darryl Palmer movie prop card ( Sluggers's Wife ), the Bowie Kuhn card, the Frank Cashen card and the full run of Topps card tribute sheets for Asburn, Cal Ripken, Kirby Pucket, Mickey Mantle and Bobby Grich

Will send you email about lunch

Stone193

That's quite a cool piece.

Are some of the bios indicating Topps employees also or just Wall Street?

Looking forward to seeing you buddy.

brad31

@bishop said:
the full run of Topps card tribute sheets for Asburn, Cal Ripken, Kirby Pucket, Mickey Mantle and Bobby Grich

Cool item had never scene this before. In your list of Topps vanity issues was familiar with all but the tribute sheets. What are these?

bishop

Another one. Mike--no Topps employees.

Brad---will post the ones I have in separate thread. Interested to know if anyone knowsof others