Flea market haul- vintage hockey, a little wax, oddball sets

CDsNuts · July 13, 2014 7:12AM

Had some free time this afternoon so I dropped into a local flea market that's yielded some decent finds in the past. Bought all this stuff from a guy who is a typical flea market card dealer- completely disorganized, crap thrown everywhere, goes by "book price", stuck in the 90s, etc....

1970 OPC hockey singles ($7.50 ea)- For anybody that knows vintage hockey, Cheevers is #1 and known to be tough in high grade. 8s sell for around $650 and these both look 8ish or better to me.

1968 OPC Plante ($20)- way OC but sharp corners

1979 Topps FB cello pack ($10), 1976 Topps hockey wax pack- roller marks line up, I think it's legit ($10)

1974 Laughlin All Star Game near set NM+ missing 5 ($10)- last complete set on ebay sold for $135

1980 Laughlin 300/.400/500 club complete set NM/MT ($10)

Lot of 1982 Perma Graphics credit cards ($5)

Random '59 Braves greats set ($5)- anybody know what set this is? I bought it thinking it might be some random O'Connell & Sons or Renata Galasso set but I can't find any info. Any help would be appreciated. There's also a random Johnny Mize card, so maybe they did a Yankees set too.

Also got a handful of random 80s and 90s oddball sets as throw ins. All in all not a bad haul 100 frogs.

Lee

DanBessette · July 13, 2014 7:43AM

If there's a Yaz in those permagraphics, I'd be interested.

CDsNuts · July 13, 2014 7:47AM

If there's a Yaz in those permagraphics, I'd be interested.

No Yaz, but there Carney Lansford porn-stache blazer in there if you need one.

lawnmowerman · July 13, 2014 7:47AM

Did you eat any Churros?

CDsNuts · July 13, 2014 7:51AM

Did you eat any Churros?

No, but I bought lots of VHS porn and throwing stars.

cardsfan73 · July 13, 2014 7:53AM

Very nice haul, those Cheevers look very sharp!

DanBessette · July 13, 2014 7:58AM

<< If there's a Yaz in those permagraphics, I'd be interested.

No Yaz, but there Carney Lansford porn-stache blazer in there if you need one. >>

Hahaha I'll pass.

Bosox1976 · July 13, 2014 9:24AM

mmmmmmmmmmm... shuriken.

Nice Cheevers'

Stingray · July 13, 2014 9:29AM

Nice haul!! Never have seen the 80 Laughlin set, pretty cool for sure!!

DanBessette · July 13, 2014 9:32AM

When members have people's faces as their avatars, my brain always defaults to that's what they look like. I can't help it. So to me Mike looks like Luis Tiant. Matt used to look like a hot goth chick. Lee looks.... Well, NUTS. Thebuttnugget really looked like a crazed Nooj in my imagination. If I ever meet you guys and you DONT look like your avatars, it's gonna blow my mind. On a related note, snuffy has a twitchy eye and those are my real hands in my avatar.

eyebone · July 13, 2014 9:32AM

lee

I had the Atlanta braves set at one time. loved those mint green colours. it seems to me they were produced in the late '70s as some sort of banquet or award giveaway, maybe for an injured Atlanta football player (tommy nobis???). memory not that great, but it was something like that.

congrats on the cheevers. very tough card--hope one of those comes back an 8.

eyebone

KatsCards · July 13, 2014 9:33AM

Pisarcik on the front of the cello with Herman Edwards on the back. What are the odds?

Dpeck100 · July 13, 2014 9:34AM

You should have told the dealer that those go for $650 in a PSA 8. Shame on you. How dare you buy some cards at his asking price that might be worth more then you paid.

LOL

itzagoner · July 13, 2014 9:44AM

i hope you grab a PSA 8 Cheevers #1, but be wary of the dreaded PSA 9, which appears to be valued at less than half of your potential take for the 8.

54topps · July 13, 2014 10:37AM

Great job on the 1970 OPC's. Those Cheevers look sharp.

calaban7 · July 13, 2014 10:47AM

Lee , what flea market did you go to ? ----- Sonny

Downtown1974 · July 13, 2014 11:02AM

Great haul for $100, Lee!

CDsNuts · July 13, 2014 11:58AM

You should have told the dealer that those go for $650 in a PSA 8. Shame on you. How dare you buy some cards at his asking price that might be worth more then you paid.

Truth be told, the total of everything came to $105 so I said "how about $100 even". So basically I went in the opposite direction. I'm probably going to hell, but whatever.

i hope you grab a PSA 8 Cheevers #1, but be wary of the dreaded PSA 9, which appears to be valued at less than half of your potential take for the 8.

A 9 would suck for sure, I'd probably crack and resub to get it in the right holder.

CDsNuts · July 13, 2014 11:59AM

Lee , what flea market did you go to ? ----- Sonny

Northpoint, it's been there forever. I'm sure you've been there once or twice.

lawnmowerman · July 13, 2014 12:12PM

<< Did you eat any Churros?

No, but I bought lots of VHS porn and throwing stars. >>

Ha! Got yelled at by mom plenty of times for sticking those stars in the doors around the house. Good times!

Dboneesq · July 13, 2014 12:35PM

Let me fix that for you Matt:

<< No, but I bought lots of VHS porn and throwing stars. >>

Ha! Got yelled at by mom plenty of times for sticking those VHS Porn tapes in the player in the family room and forgetting to take them out! Man, you should have seen the look on my grandmother's face. Good times! >>

lawnmowerman · July 13, 2014 12:44PM

<< Let me fix that for you Matt:

<< No, but I bought lots of VHS porn and throwing stars. >>

Ha! Got yelled at by mom plenty of times for sticking those VHS Porn tapes in the player in the family room and forgetting to take them out! Man, you should have seen the look on my grandmother's face. Good times! >>

>>

Lol!! You're wrong Doug. Grandma was never there

itzagoner · July 13, 2014 12:45PM

i hope you grab a PSA 8 Cheevers #1, but be wary of the dreaded PSA 9, which appears to be valued at less than half of your potential take for the 8.

A 9 would suck for sure, I'd probably crack and resub to get it in the right holder.

you can't fool me. you'd rather have a Post-It note with a little arrow on it and you know it.

Dpeck100 · July 13, 2014 8:30PM

<< You should have told the dealer that those go for $650 in a PSA 8. Shame on you. How dare you buy some cards at his asking price that might be worth more then you paid.

Truth be told, the total of everything came to $105 so I said "how about $100 even". So basically I went in the opposite direction. I'm probably going to hell, but whatever.

i hope you grab a PSA 8 Cheevers #1, but be wary of the dreaded PSA 9, which appears to be valued at less than half of your potential take for the 8.

A 9 would suck for sure, I'd probably crack and resub to get it in the right holder. >>

What is funny about the whole topic of the buyer being expected to inform the seller which I think is nuts is this guy for all we know could have had that same merchandise for sale for awhile and was thrilled to move it. If $100 works for him that is all that matters.

Good luck with the grades.

AUPT · July 13, 2014 11:54PM

The oddball Braves/Mize cards are from the set cataloged as 1978 Atlanta Nobis Center. They were issued at a card show in May, 1978, to benefit the training/rehabilitation center supported by Falcons linebacker Tommy Nobis. Several of the players were at the show to sign autographs.

The complete set is 24 cards.

jeffcbay · July 14, 2014 1:27AM

Speaking of Flea Market Math... I went to one a couple weeks ago (Hartville, Ohio) and found a guy selling mostly non-sports cards, but he had a case of 1997-98 Upper Deck Basketball Stickers (just like these). The case was open, and the sign said $2 per box or $10 for the case. There were only 11 boxes in there (one was missing), so I took the whole case up to the guy and said I'd like to buy the whole case. He said well since there is one box missing I'll sell it to you for $7. I agreed and gave him a ten dollar bill, then he gave me what I thought was three bucks back. I shoved the bills in my pocket without looking at them and left. Once I got home I took the money out of my pocket to put it into my wallet and discovered he had given me two singles and a five back. So basically I got the entire case for $3. I really wanted to drive back there to make it right, but it was a half hour drive and gas alone would have been triple that. So I guess I'm going to hell too.

EchoCanyon · July 14, 2014 2:48AM

<< Pisarcik on the front of the cello with Herman Edwards on the back. What are the odds? >>

Truly an incredible pack with those two showing.
I wonder how many people here have no idea what you're talking about.

1954 · July 14, 2014 2:49AM

Lee those hockey cards look very nice. Great find.

jeffcbay · July 14, 2014 3:05AM

<< 

<< Pisarcik on the front of the cello with Herman Edwards on the back. What are the odds? >>

Truly an incredible pack with those two showing.
I wonder how many people here have no idea what you're talking about. >>

The Fumble

edmundfitzgerald · July 14, 2014 4:01AM

<< Great job on the 1970 OPC's. Those Cheevers look sharp. >>

Those Cheevers actually look shaaaaap.

CDsNuts · July 14, 2014 9:11AM

The oddball Braves/Mize cards are from the set cataloged as 1978 Atlanta Nobis Center. They were issued at a card show in May, 1978, to benefit the training/rehabilitation center supported by Falcons linebacker Tommy Nobis. Several of the players were at the show to sign autographs.

The complete set is 24 cards.

Thanks Bob, I figured you might chime in with the answer.

That's really cool about the pack, the fumble play hadn't even occurred to me. I'll let y'all know how the hockey grades out.

VitoCo1972 · July 14, 2014 9:20AM

If for some reason one of the Cheevers pulls a 6 or 7 keep me in mind. I need one to get signed.

CDsNuts · August 13, 2014 5:04AM

Grades popped on the Cheeverseses:

2 1 23101165 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1970 O-Pee-Chee 1 Gerry Cheevers Card
2 2 23101166 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1970 O-Pee-Chee 1 Gerry Cheevers Card

cpamike · August 13, 2014 5:13AM

<< Grades popped on the Cheeverseses:

2 1 23101165 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1970 O-Pee-Chee 1 Gerry Cheevers Card
2 2 23101166 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1970 O-Pee-Chee 1 Gerry Cheevers Card >>

Nice job Lee. You were right on the mark with those. Looks like more Flea Markets in your future.

miwlvrn · August 13, 2014 5:24AM

Congratulations! A PSA 8 just sold on July 29 for $711, so an approximate 100x multiplier for a $7.50 cost of raw card sounds pretty darn good

ndleo · August 13, 2014 5:37AM

Awesome job Lee. This is the magic that local shows still have over the internet. A long time ago I bought a 1983 OPC Scott Stevens RC for $2 and it pulled a PSA 10, pop 2.

gemint · August 13, 2014 5:41AM

<< i hope you grab a PSA 8 Cheevers #1, but be wary of the dreaded PSA 9, which appears to be valued at less than half of your potential take for the 8.

A 9 would suck for sure, I'd probably crack and resub to get it in the right holder.

you can't fool me. you'd rather have a Post-It note with a little arrow on it and you know it. >>

Can you submit to PSA requesting a maximum grade? I.e., if it grades higher than 8, don't holder it.

esquiresports · August 13, 2014 5:44AM

<< Grades popped on the Cheeverseses:

2 1 23101165 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1970 O-Pee-Chee 1 Gerry Cheevers Card
2 2 23101166 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1970 O-Pee-Chee 1 Gerry Cheevers Card >>

Score! Never come across a find like this. One day....

charrigan · August 13, 2014 7:47AM

Nice! Congrats!

Big80s · August 13, 2014 9:41AM

Great eye Lee!

Bosox1976 · August 13, 2014 10:31AM

Double Yahtzee!

ldferg · August 13, 2014 11:40AM

Nice find Lee.

Stone193 · August 13, 2014 1:29PM

<< Grades popped on the Cheeverseses:

2 1 23101165 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1970 O-Pee-Chee 1 Gerry Cheevers Card
2 2 23101166 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1970 O-Pee-Chee 1 Gerry Cheevers Card >>

Congratulations Lee.

Nice cards.

Flea market haul- vintage hockey, a little wax, oddball sets

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