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MeCasa16

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I have a holy grail of error cards that my brother picked from a pack when we were kids. I immediately traded him some Bo Jackson cards for it and have had it ever since. In 2016 I went and had it graded at PSA. Pretty disappointed in the results of that, but I was a kid when I got it and have been sluffing it around for 30 years now.

1990 Topps 414 Frank Thomas Rookie Error No Name On Front. the market has heated up a little bit with Covid so I might just sell it. PSA has only ever graded 209 of these cards. Mine is an excellent PSA 5. None at my grade have ever come up for auction. A PSA mint 8 just sold last night on eBay for over 12k. Not sure what mine would go for. There is only 1 Gem Mint 10 known to exist and they estimate that card at 250k. Damn I wish I would have immediately put my card away instead of showing it off to all my friends...

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I know the owner of a sport memorabilia company if you need a reliable quote? He has been in the business for aobut 40 years.
 

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I have a 54 Bowman Mickey Mantle in pretty good shape, but all the printing on the back is smeared from the factory, but they tell me this doesn't rate as an error.😅
 

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Card market is on fire right now.

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I have a holy grail of error cards that my brother picked from a pack when we were kids. I immediately traded him some Bo Jackson cards for it and have had it ever since. In 2016 I went and had it graded at PSA. Pretty disappointed in the results of that, but I was a kid when I got it and have been sluffing it around for 30 years now.

1990 Topps 414 Frank Thomas Rookie Error No Name On Front. the market has heated up a little bit with Covid so I might just sell it. PSA has only ever graded 209 of these cards. Mine is an excellent PSA 5. None at my grade have ever come up for auction. A PSA mint 8 just sold last night on eBay for over 12k. Not sure what mine would go for. There is only 1 Gem Mint 10 known to exist and they estimate that card at 250k. Damn I wish I would have immediately put my card away instead of showing it off to all my friends...

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I have 2 of those cards but with the name. Fuck
 

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I have a Lyle Alzado rookie along with Ken Griffey, Frank Thomas, Tim Hudson, Josh Donaldson and multiple Bo Jackson Cards. If you haven't figured it out I am an Auburn grad

I have a Harmon Killebrew and Roberto Clemente rollie cards too. They aren't in great shape though.
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I have a ton of cards. Last I heard this market was dead. Sounds like its coming back?
same here have a few totes loaded with baseball and football cards, could not say how many but enough to keep someone busy for many moons going through them

* thanks for reminding me sitting next to the cards i got a bunch of small batch paintings still in the tubes never been open might be time to get my hustle on any paint collectors here??
 
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I have a bunch of cards but have no clue which ones are good.
 

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I collected as a kid from 86 to 93. The ones of value that I would have are the 86 topps traded set, Ken Griffey Upper Deck rookie, and the Mark McGwire USA team card. The last one was the most I ever spent on a card, 18 bucks for that Olympic card when I was 8 or 9 years old, it was all my money from grandparents and such in the year, but I wanted it :)
 

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I have the same card. Cased since day one.
Is it graded? I think the wait for PSA right now is pretty long, but totally worth it if you ever want to sell it. It would be sick if it was another 10.
 

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Is it graded? I think the wait for PSA right now is pretty long, but totally worth it if you ever want to sell it. It would be sick if it was another 10.
Not graded. Have to pull them all out.
 

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I have a few, time to go through them!


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Nice card!

When my brother and I were little, my dad bought us the first five years of upper deck box sets. 89, 90, 91, 92, & 93 (I think). They are still in the boxes with wrappers. Never opened.
 

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When Hank Aaron passed it reminded me that I had a binder full of 70's & 80's cards and his is autographed. Haven't seen these in years, wonder if there's any good $$$ ones.
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My father in law has a bunch of baseball memorabilia, mostly cards and signed baseballs. When he was a kid in the 50s and 60s, he would try to pt together complete sets of cards every year, and I believe that he has quite a few of them. His collection is not very organized and I don't even think he knows everything he has.
 

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I have a ton of cards. Full sealed sets from Upper Deck. I let my kids sort and organize them. They enjoy it.
 
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