Sometimes the main event lives up to its billing. Vintage pack breaking specialist Just Rip It offered a vintage basketball packapalooza last Thursday night, opening 11 packs of vintage basketball cards in a live broadcast. 100 break spots were sold at a cost of $200 with each participant receiving one of the first 100 cards pulled in a random draw. Every … [Read more...]
Notes: Packers Collector Snares Ice Bowl Football; Opening a 1959 Football Pack
The Green Bay Packers are back in the NFC Championship game and Glen Christensen is hoping to add some more history to his Hall of Fame-like collection of team memorabilia. It'll be hard to top his most recent addition, though. Christensen, a Green Bay native who has owned a printing business in Dallas, TX for the last 20 years, recently acquired a game-used football … [Read more...]
Notes: Contenders Brady Rookie Auto Auction; Huge Immaculate Pull; ’50s Football Rip; Breaker Living the Dream
A 2000 Tom Brady Contenders Rookie Autograph card is on the block, with a strong six-figure price expected. Graded PSA 9, it currently has a high bid of $270,000 with the auction scheduled to close Monday, January 25--the day after the NFC Championship game. The same card sold at auction for $168,000 in April 2019. A BGS 9/10 copy of the card sold for $400,100 in … [Read more...]
Notes: Big Spenders in Goldin Sale; PSA Accepting Subs in Top Loaders; Scripps Hobby Segment
His team is out of the playoffs again, but that’s not stopping bidders from putting up some big money in an attempt to snare a 1/1 example of one of his rookie cards. The 2013-14 National Treasures Horizontal (RPA) Giannis Antetokounmpo Autographed NBA Logoman Patch at Goldin Auctions is now at $760,000 with more than a week left in the bidding. With a 20% buyer’s … [Read more...]
Opening a 1961-62 Fleer Basketball Pack
There's one less 1961-62 Fleer basketball pack in the world, but there are a few more truly pack-fresh cards in the population. Pack-breaker Just Rip It celebrated the 4th of July with a 3-hour online broadcast that included multiple vintage products including a 1961-62 Fleer basketball wax pack. Priced at six card for a nickel, it was one of only two NBA trading … [Read more...]
Worth the Wait: 1960 Topps Cello Pack Break Yields Big Prize
Sixty years after it was boxed up and left the Topps plant during the Eisenhower administration, a Topps baseball cello pack finally revealed its contents Tuesday night. Still tightly sealed, the 12-card pack would have cost 10 cents in 1960. It was the star attraction in a five-hour pack breaking marathon conducted by Just Rip It. The company offered … [Read more...]
Notes: Kraft’s Ring=$1 Million; LBJ, MJ Cards Score; 1960 Cello Pack
Robert Kraft's Super Bowl LI ring has been sold for $1.025 million, according to Fanatics. It's by far the most ever paid for a Super Bowl ring. The New England Patriots owner put the ring into the Fanatics 'All in Challenge,' a fundraising auction to benefit COVID-19 causes. It was created by the team after they won their fifth Lombardi Trophy under Kraft's … [Read more...]
Notes: Johnson, Young Photos Top Auction; 1956 Football Pack Rip
If you've seen his 1914 and 1915 Cracker Jack cards, now you know what the actual photo to make them looked like. Heritage Auctions sold an original copy of the early 1910s image of the Big Train in its latest photo auction, which closed Saturday night. The Type I image netted $28,800. In all, five photos sold for over $10,000. A unique 1902 Carl Horner … [Read more...]
1958 Topps Football Cello Pack Rip Yields Plenty of Goodies
It's the type of vintage pack break that generates a buzz even among those who have no skin in the game. The 1958 Topps football set houses one of the hobby's top rookie cards with ten cards in each cello pack, there's a fighting chance that one could be inside. Last Wednesday, Just Rip It took a PSA 4 '58 cello and made it available to participants in their regular … [Read more...]