Junk Wax and Observations on the Crazy World of Sports Cards
Friday, January 6, 2017
How to tell the difference between 1963 Post Cereal and 1963 Jello baseball cards
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Issue Identification For card collectors, identifying a card’s exact issue often becomes a problem when finding vintage cards either at fl...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
What is an error card? (or variation card)
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What is an error card? (or variation card) I recently listed some 1991 Fleer baseball error or variation cards on eBay, which got me th...
Monday, February 9, 2015
What happened to GAI Grading? And how a bad grading idea sunk their successor Global Authentic.
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Introduction In a past post, I wrote about how GAI grading (Global Authentication Incorporated) went bankrupt in 2008-2009 as the ...
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Saturday, November 15, 2014
Why most ‘Buy It Now’ sports cards on eBay are overpriced
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Introduction As a vintage set builder who largely uses eBay to buy cards, I often get very frustrated with not being able to acquire cert...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Conflicts of Interest in the Sports Card Ecosystem Post 1 - Card Companies and Collectors
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A conflict of interest is a situation occurring when an individual or organization is involved in multiple economic interests with one of t...
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, But Phil Esposito did Wear Plaid in his early 1970’s Hockey Cards
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Occasionally, some sports cards are memorable because of their oddball nature or when something just seems out of place. Ask any person wh...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
1970s Topps Football Cards – Sweaty Guys and Airbrushed Pictures
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Topps baseball sets in the early 1970s showed many design innovations like (1) the beautiful black bordered 1971 set, (2) the groovy, hip 1...
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