Opened my 75 Mini Box and Extra Packs Today
MrG
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So, I have been saving this 75 Mini box and extra packs since I traded for the box, and purchased a dozen packs in some of the BBCE CU group breaks over the last 10 years. I had a total of 48 packs and debated for a number of years on whether to sell it all as unopened or rip part or all of the packs. After all the stories of unscrupulous Mini pack builders, and the fact that I had inadvertently co-mingled the packs, I decided to open everything to avert someone getting ripped off in the future. It was a good thing, and the picture will tell the story of the results. The answer is all in the gum!
Michael Gaytan (MrG)
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Awesome! Hope you pulled some mint fresh cards~I have a short list if you're selling any!
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.
Me second after Tim. Needing some minty 75 minis as well
KC
let's see some results. good luck.
Thanks,
David (LD_Ferg)
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Hope you pull something nice. You gonna eat the gum ?
The gum turns tan in color if not stored properly through the years.
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Gum on left looks thinner than gum on the right
I think right gum is just less uniformly flat so the stack looks higher.
The gum on the left is too thin in width meaning the 36 packs were rebuilt. The gum on the left looks like it is from late 1980s packs. I’m sorry this happened to you, but hopefully you at least found a few high condition cards in the box. Your loose packs were clearly good, so hopefully you had a major hit from the BBCE packs.
For results.....
Check in tomorrow same bat time same bat channel
Hope u had good luck
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It's not as thin as late 80s gum, though, at least from the angle I'm seeing. It would be helpful if we could see a piece of gum in both stacks side by side but facing on top.. The 80s gum you see in vintage packs is typically skinnier than those I'm seeing above but I suppose it could just be the angle of the photo.
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.
You can also tell if the packs are legit by the collation of cards inside the pack. From the back of each 75 mini wax pack, the first 6 or 7 cards should be from the one * sheet with the remaining 3 or 4 cards to the front of each pack coming from the two ** sheet.
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.
I think gum on left and right are same size just angle of picture making it look off. Hope he pulls some well centered gems. Will be fun to see the cards.
Send Tim some gum to eat and if he falls over we know they are legit from 1975. Only way we can be sure...
KC
LOL, MrG may have done just that!
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Eat it!
I believe "eat the gum" is a euphemism in this scenario.
Arthur
@jordangretzkyfan is correct. The 36 packs from the trade were rebuilt.
Photo showing the gum from an overhead view. 2 original gum, 2 rebuilt gum.
Photo showing the variation of card sizes inserted in the rebuilt packs. The Mike Tyson is the correct size.
Photo showing card distribution from left to right numbered 1-99, 100-199, etc.
Best star cards pulled from all packs -
There were a number of good looking, centered commons and lesser star cards out of the 48 packs.
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The original packs had this exact collation, and half the cards were facing each other with the backs of the cards facing the top and bottom. The card re-builder did not even bother placing the cards correctly in the packs. Some packs were all facing up in the same direction, some were half-facing up, half-facing down.
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The collation is one thing resealers very rarely get right, much less so than the gum size. In this particular case, the gum sizes above are actually correct for both stacks. The difference in color is not uncommon, either way, with authentic packs. The cards inside the pack will often "flip" at the break from face out to inward but it is highly unusual to encounter that at any other point within the pack.
Sorry to hear this. Hope you pulled some decent cards regardless.
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.
Regarding card size, it is very common for 75 mini cards with green tops and yellow bottoms or red tops and yellow bottoms to come out short from the pack as those cards are positioned on the edge of the sheet.
Conversely, it is also not uncommon for cards with pink tops and yellow bottoms or cards with tan tops and blue bottoms to come out "long" from the pack. This is one of the oddities with regard to the 75 mini set. The differences in card sizes pictured above at the ruler are not out of the ordinary for factory issued minis with relation to those specific color combos.
This is also why "full-sized" green/yellow and red/yellow minis are very difficult to obtain in high grade and why they sell for such a premium. These are the only two color combos that are found "naturally short" in size from the factory.
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.
Thanks Tim for all the background on 1975 Topps! My interest in cards waned after 1974 as cars and girls became more interesting.
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