Hockey Cards - Part III
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Rants Mulliniks
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Just looking for something in a tote downstairs and came across a few neat things.
A while back Rorschach and I were talking Team Pinnacle and how I had no problem getting them back in the day.....here's a couple Lemieux's.
Also came across 3 old Gretzky cards where two backs are blank and one a half print.
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Was also some 80's wax wrappers I didn't take pictures of but crazy the gum residue smells the same 40 years later.
A while back Rorschach and I were talking Team Pinnacle and how I had no problem getting them back in the day.....here's a couple Lemieux's.
Also came across 3 old Gretzky cards where two backs are blank and one a half print.
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[/URL]Was also some 80's wax wrappers I didn't take pictures of but crazy the gum residue smells the same 40 years later.
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I do that just as a habit, because it really makes no difference between $10.00 and $10.23 or whatever. Good point to mess up sniped bids though.
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Cardset series 1 is released. Series 2 should be out in late February/early March
2021-22 Cardset Finland Hockey - Trading Card Database
Rants Mulliniks
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Sounds like no difference in this case but I have found it has helped me a few times. I've watched snipers try to frantically guess.
If you have one I'm definitely interested.
I'm slowly selling off all the non-signed cards in my collection to replace them with signed ones. It's interesting because my nicer ones have gained lots of value in the last few months and conversely autographed cards are often at a lower grade so sometimes I can even make a small profil on the exchange.
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I'm debating whether to go hunting for a good hobby box to crack open, or just look up single autos on ebay of any card I might want.
Seen too many breaks online where it's just so underwhelming....and I don't make enough coin that I can just throw away a couple thousand bucks on a "maybe".
Seen too many breaks online where it's just so underwhelming....and I don't make enough coin that I can just throw away a couple thousand bucks on a "maybe".
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I sold my collection a few months back for $1000 - Just wanted to get rid of them and start fresh. Just too many boxes/binders laying around, haha.
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Depends if you are looking for adrenaline/remorse kind of thing or non exciting smart investment kind of thing.I'm debating whether to go hunting for a good hobby box to crack open, or just look up single autos on ebay of any card I might want.
Seen too many breaks online where it's just so underwhelming....and I don't make enough coin that I can just throw away a couple thousand bucks on a "maybe".
I think you know which is which.
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I don't sell much (collecting since 70's). Actually was thinking the other day I can't even think what it would take for me to sell it all. I have every rookie (and complete set) from 74 to 95, all in very good shape. Cards going back to the 50's. A lesser amount of more recent cards.
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If you have any 03-04 Parkhurst Original 6 Toronto, that's the one full set I have tried to complete the last 20 years and am still 7 cards short.
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Got into it with my father who was a collector long before it was worth anything. Have very loosely toyed with whether I would move any of it but the thought of breaking any of the sets kills me. That and the fact they are my memories of him and our times together. Sometime over the next year I plan to photograph some to post here. I wish grading hadn't gotten so stupid because I have at least 100+ I would like to do.
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You got into the hobby for all the right reasons. I have some pretty high end cards and very low end cards. My Forsberg and Avs PC are my untouchables. Almost all those cards have a memory.
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Grading ruined hockey cards for me. I still usually buy a hobby box each year just to support my local card shop, but beyond that I stopped collecting when grading took over. The rates have only gotten worse over time, its a shame, I too probably have 100+ cards that should be graded including some high profile rookies. Ungraded they are worthless, but I not spending thousands of dollars to get them graded in the hopes that I can sell them for a 'profit'. Wiping out at least half of the potential equity in a card in grading fees up front is just stupid. For now the sentimental value is enough for me, down the road hopefully things will change in the hobby, but if not I'll probably wholesale my collection or just bury it somewhere and give a treasure map to one of the neighbor's kids or something.
If the Avs win the cup I will get my Mackinnon rookies graded and eBay them though.
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Thanks! Yeah I don't collect a ton of cards post 95 but where that set was 100% Leafs, decided I wanted to complete it. 17 years later, still working on it.....
Needed to be more active back when it first came out.
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Yeah we spent a lot of hours on that stuff. Amazingly, long before grading my father was very meticulous about selecting what he thought were the best cards and by pure luck, he was selecting based on what would become the 4 categories they grade on. Long story short, his collection is well above average when it comes to quality. I've gotten in arguments with some collectors over the years who will say things like "if it doesn't have a rough edge, the Gretzky is a fake". It's bullcrap because I can show you the entire set with at least 90% of it with very good edges.....the bigger issue was centering. I know first hand they are all authentic, I was there when they were opened as well as bought at a Texaco gas station in the middle of nowhere, pack by pack (he didn't get lucky by opening one good box or case, he never bought that way). We have a lot of old novelty type collections too from Vachon, Kraft, Esso, Post etc. A lot of fun.
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For me Upper Deck ruined cards both with their mid 90's explosion of producing too many sets and also through taking it from the hands of kids. I definitely like some of the innovations they have done but they definitely killed a lot of my interest. I have actually never graded a card but in looking at it, there's probably at least 100 I should. Still if I am not really intent on selling, kind of money out the door. At the same time it's about the only way to be able to properly insure the stuff. I like the treasure map idea!
Are you an Avs fan? I have an immediate family member in Avs management who has gotten me some nice Avs hard autographed stuff over the years. Was actually thinking of seeing if he could get me something Makar.
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I'm a Wings fan, but I did root for the Avs a lot back in the day (obviously not against Detroit) because I was a big Roy fan and I liked Sakic and Forsberg too. I met Bob Hartley when he was the Avs coach and he's still one of the nicest hockey people I've ever met.
That's awesome you have a hookup in the front office. For many years I had a close family friend that worked for the St. Louis Cardinals. I got hooked up with tickets, stadium cash and autographs galore. She even got me a bunch of Bobby Orr autographs because she was friends with him through work since he was a players' agent.
I totally agree with you about Upper Deck ruining collecting. I remember when the first ever game used jersey cards came out, 1995 IIRC, at the time it was the coolest thing ever and everyone was buying Upper Deck trying to get one - but that was definitely the turning point because after that the variants exploded and the cards got more and more gimmicky. Now everything is about graded rookies, the packs are too expensive for kids and the cards are totally worthless once the pack is opened unless you happen to pull that year's hyped prospect. It's just no fun anymore and I don't get how people have fun 'collecting' anymore. Locally our card shop is doing well, but their sales are literally just old men spending thousands of dollars buying cases of baseball cards in the hopes of pulling an Ohtani rookie or w/e. Lord knows what they even do with all the thousands of 'useless' cards left over.
A couple years ago I started digging out my favorite inserts from when I was a kid and getting them framed and mounted above my bar, that's really about all you can do with them.
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Lol. Should have looked at your avatar!
Yeah he was there during their peak too so I got stuff from Roy, Forsberg, Sakic etc. Coolest was getting to wear his Cup ring and I have a t-shirt from the locker room when they won.
Lucky you on the Orr autos. As a Wings fan you'll appreciate I have a Howe auto he signed for my father.
Yeah it's weird how I lost my overall joy for the hobby in the "new", however I will say cracking a pack is still the closest feeling I get to what Christmas was like as a kid.....there's a sort of magic to it.
