I found this 1938 dealer advertising sheet for the Canadian counterpart of the U.S. Gum, Incorporated 1938 Horrors of War set in Mastro’s 2004 auction…
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Market shifts, announcements, and the business behind cardboard.
Bobby Bonilla was a spokesman for Ultra PRO in early 1992. Do you think they’re still paying him today, like the Mets? If you weren’t…
Today, we present a 1949 Pixie Bubble Gum X-Ray Round-Up Advertising Poster from Topps’ early days. I scanned this image from Mastro’s June 2006 Classic…
Here’s an awesome summary of the Hockey Sheets that Upper Deck distributed at games during the 1991/92 NHL season, as presented in Allan Kaye’s Sports…
I shared Dr. Jim Beckett’s first price survey results a few weeks ago. Well, the following year, he kicked off an update with the following bit…
There are certain pictures you’ll run across quite often in the hobby, like the 1952 Topps Baseball Woolworth’s display or the 1974 Topps production line…
Here’s a scan of Dr. Jim Beckett’s first report on baseball card prices from the April 1977 issue of The Trader Speaks. The survey he referenced…