Does anyone ever seen unopened '91 Topps Desert Shield boxes?

jamesryanbell · September 26, 2007 4:32AM

I just ran across about 2 wax packs worth that I didn't remember I had. No notable stars except Robin Yount.

I remember I paid $40 a pack for them WAAAAY back in the day. Wonder how much they go for now?

-- Ryan

BunchOBull · September 26, 2007 4:48AM

In '91 you could get them at the local gas stations in Central Florida for $2 a pack...I was 8 and didn't have to foresight to know what would come. I actually let several hundred of these ruin in my grandparents camper that I set up as a baseball card shop in the summers for the neighborhood kids from '92 through '94. A PSA 10 Thomas sold on eBay for $200 the other day. That's a card I'd love to own a couple of.

I've seen packs sell recently and they were actually in the $50 to $60 range.

Brian48 · September 26, 2007 4:48AM

I saw an unopened box once at one of the auction houses about year and a half ago. Not sure if it ever sold, but chances are, if it did, it would have been broken up and sold as individual packs by now.

jamesryanbell · September 26, 2007 4:50AM

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I've seen packs sell recently and they were actually in the $50 to $60 range. >>

Were they slabbed?

fur72 · September 26, 2007 12:22PM

I though these cards were never made available to the public. As in not a retail product. My understanding is any product would have had to been purchased second hand. Am I correct in saying this?

CDsNuts · September 26, 2007 12:24PM

Packs generally go for $45-$55 a piece if they look clean. I've opened about 20 or so over the last 3 years, but they are tough to come by. I've never seen a complete box.

Lee

Stone193 · September 26, 2007 12:26PM

We got the stuff in Saudi when I was there.

How it wound up back in the US? Not sure. Probably very enterprising individuals in the supply chain?
Or perhaps at the Topps distribution area?

Don't really know.

mike

BunchOBull · September 26, 2007 12:28PM

James, they were not slabbed.

Fur72, they were being sold in Central Florida right and left. My Uncle was just out of high school and working at a truck stop, he purchased several boxes at the truck stop.

Edited to say: This of course doesn't mean it was distributed officially and they could have been distributed second hand I'm sure.

Joewoowoo · September 26, 2007 12:28PM

Yes you are right,I was in the USAF deployed to Bahrain from the 52nd TFW out of Spangdhalem Germany , these packs were made by topps and all delivered to the persian Gulf region and handed out to the service men and women of all the military branches. I personaly didnt see any of them but some of my friends were in the right spot at the right time. I do want to add that many unopened packs did make it back stateside from there at that point anything goes but they were not distributed stateside to be sold as retail.

Joe

rube26105 · September 26, 2007 1:02PM

i could have sent back a plane full of these damn things!, but never thought of it,who would have thought topps would have put out anything good in 1991??,besides i was too busy sitting in desert watching the a.f. beat the infrasture to a pulp lol- i can remember cargo planes with em by the skid full,makes me sick now lol-best thing of whole "war" and i never got a pack of em lol,slipped right thru my fingers

Does anyone ever seen unopened '91 Topps Desert Shield boxes?

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