The second part of what's become a seven-figure find of decades-old unopened sports and non-sports wax boxes is scheduled to go on the auction block late this month and we're learning a little more about how it all came about. "Beer Box Find II" included 1960s Topps football and baseball boxes, a 1971 Topps baseball box, a one-of-a-kind 1968-69 Topps Test basketball … [Read more...]
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Collect Auctions Opens Bidding in Summer Catalog
An array of vintage unopened boxes, game-worn jerseys, autographs, lots, singles and complete sets of cards greeted visitors to Collect Auctions’ website Monday as the company’s latest auction went live. There are are 630 lots in the catalog with bidding set to run through Thursday, August 3 9:00 p.m. CST (10:00 EST). The lineup includes a 1973 Topps … [Read more...]
New Wave of Rare, Vintage Unopened Packs Coming to Auction
The improbable “Beer Box Find” that brought a treasure trove of rare vintage unopened boxes to the market several weeks ago has a sequel in the works. Mile High Card Company will offer several more vintage unopened wax boxes in its September auction--including one full AND one nearly full 1965 Topps Football wax box--all originating with the same Tennessee family that had … [Read more...]
Scarce 1971-72 Dual Wax Box Highlights 900-Lot Wheatland Auction
Amid the hundreds of new and vintage sports cards, autographs and memorabilia in Wheatland Auction Services’ online catalog is something even experts in the field consider a white whale—something known to exist but virtually unseen in many years. Standing out among a recently consigned collection of vintage unopened boxes was a 1971-72 Topps basketball “double box”, featuring … [Read more...]
1948 Bowman Baseball Packs Sell for $521,180
A forgotten cache of unopened boxes and packs of decades-old baseball, football and basketball cards turned turned into a high six-figure windfall for a Tennessee-based consignor early Friday morning as Mile High Card Company's auction came to a close. As we first reported last month, the group was headlined by a one-of-a-kind partial box of 19 packs of 1948 … [Read more...]
Notes: Vintage Box Auction Update; Tarasenko Signs; Judge’s Blast Gets a Card
Factor in the buyer’s premium that the buyer will pay and Bidding for the 17 packs and display box of 1948 Bowman baseball has pushed past the $200,000 threshold as the Mile High Card Company auction enters its final days. The one-of-a-kind partial box is the headliner in Mile High’s current auction but the consignor who called the company this spring with the improbable … [Read more...]
Bidding for Vintage Wax Find Already Booming
Bidding for the partial box of 1948 Bowman baseball packs in Mile High Card Company’s new auction soared to over $121,000 in the first 48 hours of bidding. The one-of-a-kind was just part of an incredible find of unopened material dating back more than a half-century. Consigned by the nephew of an elderly Tennessee woman, the boxes had been stored for … [Read more...]
Packs in Mile High Vintage Find Originated with Family of Trading Card Maker
We’re learning a little more about how the find of vintage unopened material, including that one-of-a-kind partial box of 1948 Bowman baseball, came to be. Mile High Card Company recently received the consignment that’s already considered one of the better unopened discoveries of all-time. The boxes, some full and some with a few packs missing, mostly date from the … [Read more...]
More ’48 Bowman Pack Pictures…and the Box That Held a “Promo Pack”
The newly discovered 1948 Bowman unopened partial wax box has generated what might be the biggest buzz of the year so far. No boxes—no packs, even—were known to exist until Mile High Card Company received the partial box on consignment from someone in the south. The box that will be in their upcoming auction held 19 of the original 24 packs. The ’48 Bowman set was … [Read more...]
Collectors Recall Their First Full Box
Opening one pack of cards was always fun when you were a kid. Two was even better. So when you somehow had the opportunity to open an entire box--whether you saved enough on your own or (more likely) an adult bought one for you-- it was sensory overload. All those cards. All that gum (if you're old enough to remember when cards always came with … [Read more...]
