Hockey Cards - Part III

[Cubs2024wildcard]

Picked up a Lemieux Topps RC recently, happy to add it to my collection. Been a long time coming

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Not trying to be a Debbie downer, but...

How To Spot A Fake Mario Lemieux 1985-86 Topps #9 Rookie Card

Most of the value found in the 1985-86 Topps Hockey set comes down to just one card. Of the (165) cards, #9 is the most sought after mainly because its Mario Lemieux’s rookie card. Lemieux …

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It's pretty much the exact same card. This is why you should never by key rookie cards from any sport ungraded.

If you look at the right side of the penguin in the logo the colors bleed.

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

Big changes for 23/24 Series 1. 12 packs per box, young guns 1 in every 2 packs.

I'm hearing two pack retail blasters and four pack megas.

Your chances of pulling Bedard just got alot better.

My new arrivals

That FW is nasty.

Good job!!

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

Damn that purple GO

I was watching a shesterkin BGS 9.5 young guns and boy im thinking there was a shill bidder in the house. Someone with 3 feedback kept raising the price of the auction every couple seconds during the last 2 mins of the auction, they didnt win but raised the card from 125>185. I ultimately decided not to bid because i have one at BGS currently, i honesty have no idea how to grade so it could come back even or higher but because i dont know is why i was thinking hard on bidding.

Was it thru a consigner?

Alot of people pay others to shill up their stuff now. There's a whole community of it.

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

You say YGs are the worst investment, but I wish I bought an Ovechkin PSA 10 YG a few years ago, that was an investment!

They are.

I could have purchased an Ovie Cup rookie for 2k when he had an off year by his standards. A BGS nine sold for 100k.

There's a psa 10 YG that's probably going to end at around 6k. We're in two different lanes, my guy.

 

[Satan]

Not trying to be a Debbie downer, but...

How To Spot A Fake Mario Lemieux 1985-86 Topps #9 Rookie Card

Most of the value found in the 1985-86 Topps Hockey set comes down to just one card. Of the (165) cards, #9 is the most sought after mainly because its Mario Lemieux’s rookie card. Lemieux …

sportscardinfo.wordpress.com

It's pretty much the exact same card. This is why you should never by key rookie cards from any sport ungraded.

If you look at the right side of the penguin in the logo the colors bleed.

Thanks for your input - you're probably noticing some quality loss from when I took a screenshot of the card.

I inspected the linework before purchasing and is graded by PSA (I cropped the slab out in my screenshots, you can see it on the edges of the card) and was purchased from a trusted vendor... so I tend to disagree with your opinion.

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

Thanks for your input - you're probably noticing some quality loss from when I took a screenshot of the card.

I inspected the linework before purchasing and is graded by PSA (I cropped the slab out in my screenshots, you can see it on the edges of the card) and was purchased from a trusted vendor... so I tend to disagree with your opinion.

You cropped the slab, which is fine, but what grade is it?

Something seems off. Either it's altered or a switch.

I get hiding the psa number, but nobody is posting up a lemieux rookie without showing the grade. It doesn't matter if it's a 1 or a 10, it's a lemieux rookie.

Like I said, something seems off.....

 

[Satan]

You cropped the slab, which is fine, but what grade is it?

Something seems off. Either it's altered or a switch.

I get hiding the psa number, but nobody is posting up a lemieux rookie without showing the grade. It doesn't matter if it's a 1 or a 10, it's a lemieux rookie.

Like I said, something seems off.....

It’s a PSA 9. Sometimes the card should speak for itself instead of having people squawk about the grading company/grade. I’ll post higher resolution images of the card after, it’s not a fake.

 

[Satan]

 

[Demon Eyes]

2023-24 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey Cards Checklist and Odds

Young Guns collecting season restarts in 2023-24 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey. The revamped flagship product also sees some changes.

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23-24 Series 1 info is out. New Young Guns parallels.

And 22-23 Series 2 checklist is out

2022-23 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey Cards Checklist and Odds

Continuing the flagship line, 2022-23 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey ushers in the second round of NHL cards for the season.

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Top YGs are Slafkovsky, Johnston, Holloway, Kuzmenko, Sanderson, Clarke, Jiricek, Wright, Guhle, and Guenther

will they keep 2023 draft picks for series 2 next year? like they did this year.

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

I mean....your not posting the psa label so.....

Here's a psa 9

I mean....one looks like it was copied off an ink jet printer and it isn't the pics I pulled up.

If your happy with it, I mean who really cares?

 

[Satan]

For someone that claims to do thousands of dollars in sports cards sales, it's pretty funny that you don't know what these cards look like under magnification

Your potato images of "PSA 9s" are pretty good though, thanks for sharing.

 

[Satan]

Picked up this card this morning at a pretty low cost. The Population Count set to me is kind of the embodiment of COVID-era sports card speculation. When I can, I like picking up rare/unique inserts of Ovechkin.

It looks like they'll be making this set again in 2023-24 flagship. There haven't been many sales of Pop 10s on the secondary market but a Rantanen went for 175 CAD.

 

[Eggtimer]

This was my favourite card I owned. I was an idiot and traded it before his value skyrocketed.At one point i owned 7 Drai Cup RPA’s .
This one with the oil drop patch was very sexy.
I had some many cards I wish I would have kept …
I still have some decent ones but limited to Devils players. Mainly Jack and Bratt .

Here is my biggest regret selling ….

 

[The Kingslayer]

This was my favourite card I owned. I was an idiot and traded it before his value skyrocketed.At one point i owned 7 Drai Cup RPA’s .
This one with the oil drop patch was very sexy.
I had some many cards I wish I would have kept …
I still have some decent ones but limited to Devils players. Mainly Jack and Bratt .View attachment 677500

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Its gorgeous. I remember when his YG was going for $30. I remember Gaudreau was the most sought after YG that yr along with Ekblad and Drouin. Good times. Hobby boxes were still reasonable back then.

 

[yada]

This was my favourite card I owned. I was an idiot and traded it before his value skyrocketed.At one point i owned 7 Drai Cup RPA’s .
This one with the oil drop patch was very sexy.
I had some many cards I wish I would have kept …
I still have some decent ones but limited to Devils players. Mainly Jack and Bratt .View attachment 677500

Here is my biggest regret selling ….View attachment 677501

That mcdavid price looks low. If that's only to 5 how is that card only costing 3400 Canadian. At first glance i thought it was a draisaitl because its so cheap (for a mcdavid auto)

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

That mcdavid price looks low. If that's only to 5 how is that card only costing 3400 Canadian. At first glance i thought it was a draisaitl because its so cheap (for a mcdavid auto)

That was in 2017

 

[yada]

That was in 2017

Wish i had a time travel machine lol

 

[Satan]

Its gorgeous. I remember when his YG was going for $30. I remember Gaudreau was the most sought after YG that yr along with Ekblad and Drouin. Good times. Hobby boxes were still reasonable back then.

I remember people thinking Draisaitl was going to bust after getting sent back to the WHL. Pretty funny looking back.

I was digging through my old pictures the other day and found this gem. Pulled it at the 2015 Fall Expo in Toronto and got it "graded" by BGS along with a Max Domi YGC. I need to plan another trip back there.

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

For someone that claims to do thousands of dollars in sports cards sales, it's pretty funny that you don't know what these cards look like under magnification

Your potato images of "PSA 9s" are pretty good though, thanks for sharing.

Find it odd you don't post the psa label for a lemieux rookie but post a BGS grade for a McDavid.....

Why not let the card do all the talking for that one?

Too many red flags

 

[Satan]

Find it odd you don't post the psa label for a lemieux rookie but post a BGS grade for a McDavid.....

Why not let the card do all the talking for that one?

Too many red flags

My guy, you failed the test. You can't continue to LARP as a major sports card dealer and talk down to everyone in this thread when you can't even properly identify a real Lemieux rookie card with high res photos.

 

[SniperOnTheWing]

Got this beauty EP40 rookie in yesterday. Ultimate Auto /99

 

[Cubs2024wildcard]

My guy, you failed the test. You can't continue to LARP as a major sports card dealer and talk down to everyone in this thread when you can't even properly identify a real Lemieux rookie card with high res photos.

Still don't see the psa label, tho....

As for me being a "major sports card dealer", those who know, know (thumbs)

 

[Satan]

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Got this beauty EP40 rookie in yesterday. Ultimate Auto /99

I saw your post on IG yesterday- I really love that design.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

Still don't see the psa label, tho....

As for me being a "major sports card dealer", those who know, know (thumbs)

To be fair, I had a "sports card dealer" on Facebook arguing with me that my Gretzky rookie is fake despite the fact I was there when it was opened in 1980 and it has never left my family's hands (in fact never left my family's house until moved in 2020). I find lots of people online that opine about 1980's OPC that you can clearly tell were not around in the collecting game back then.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

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Got this beauty EP40 rookie in yesterday. Ultimate Auto /99

Cool card, but good god, it looks like he draws his signature in crayon. Whatever, I can’t talk, mine would get called fake because it isn’t the same thing two times in a row.