Buy the contents of a storage unit and you're more likely to come home with some old books and furniture, maybe an outdated piece of computer equipment or a piece of shelving. Oh, there have been some that have yielded boxes of cards and one surrendered Terrell Owens' old stuff. But in the sports memorabilia world, there's never anything quite like what's just … [Read more...]
1986-87 Fleer Box from Missouri Find Offered Box Break Style
Remember that stash of unopened 1986-87 Fleer basketball boxes purchased by Baseball Card Exchange earlier this year in Missouri? One of them is going to be part of a box break at the National Sports Collectors Convention. Seven 1986-87 Fleer boxes were originally purchased by a collector who bought them at TG & Y Toys around the time of issue. Untouched since … [Read more...]
BBCE Discovers 7 “Store Original” 1986-87 Fleer Basketball Boxes
Purchased more than 30 years ago at a toy store at a total cost of about $100, seven full boxes of 1986-87 Fleer basketball cards are about to enter the hobby—at an estimated value of at least 300 times that amount. The discovery of pristine boxes was made by Baseball Card Exchange, the hobby’s top vintage unopened dealer, but it was actually a case of 1984 Topps … [Read more...]
Big Money for Fleer Basketball Case Finds at NSCC
They were almost unsellable 30 years ago. Modern basketball cards had all but died and Fleer's valiant attempt to bring them back in the latter half of the 1980s was met with little more than a yawn. Now, though, unopened boxes of the first two years of Fleer hoops are worth a small fortune. On Wednesday, just hours after the official opening of the National … [Read more...]
Babe,Willie Generating Six-Figure Interest in High-End Card Auction
A 1916 M101-5 Babe Ruth rookie card has set a record for the grade in Goldin Auctions’ ‘Great American Trading Card’ catalog. The SGC 70 (EX+) example is currently at $240,000 ($288,000 with the buyer’s premium). The last SGC 70 to sell publicly went for $98,175 in 2015. The last sale, in February 2015, was at $80,662. The highest recorded price for an … [Read more...]
The Iconic 1986-87 Fleer Basketball Set Turns 30
It's difficult to imagine that company executives could have envisioned what they were creating with the release of the 1986-87 Fleer basketball set. It was the company's first foray into the basketball card world and despite a less than enthusiastic initial reaction, it ultimately became a heck of a debut. Thirty years later, the issue stands near the top of the list of … [Read more...]
1980s Fleer Basketball Stickers Skyrocket
Seeking investments in an uncertain market over the last few years, you could have put your money into a trendy tech stock or maybe an old reliable like General Electric but you'd have done much better if you’d chosen instead to buy… basketball stickers. Those old inserts—especially those from the company’s 1986 trading card revival—have increased in value to a point where … [Read more...]
Editor’s Notes: National Notes, MJ Fleer Pack to Re-Pack?
The 2016 National Sports Collectors Convention is set for August 3-8 at the Atlantic City Convention Center. It’ll be the first time there since 2003 and the third overall. National organizers typically don't release attendance numbers but indicated to us Monday they were "ecstatic" about the number of collectors who made their way to the Stephens Convention Center last … [Read more...]
1948 Leaf Football Set Sells for $176,299
The third highest rated 1948 Leaf Football set on PSA’s Set Registry sold for $176,299 in Mile High Card Company’s August Premium Catalog Auction. The set featured a cumulative GPA of 7.444 and featured a PSA 8 Sid Luckman rookie. One of the best known sets of 1932 George C. Miller baseball cards realized nearly $49,000 in the auction, which closed last weekend. A 1939 … [Read more...]