Vintage Sports Cards – Baseball – Basketball – Football – Hockey
The 1991 Topps Desert Shield set was a special run of 1991 Topps cards (identical but for a gold foil Desert Shield logo) made for military members deployed as part of the Gulf War. The set is incredibly popular today for a few reasons: Topps did not make that many cards; some estimates are around … Read more
I recently shared the following photo of a 1975 Topps Baseball Mini Cello Pack with George Brett on top to the PostWarCards Twitter audience. Unfortunately, the pack is fake. Any 1975 Topps Cello pack (mini or regular) with George Brett on top is fake. I wrote a blog post about the proper 1975 Topps Cello … Read more
I’ve made it a bit of a habit on this blog to call out fake unopened products, and it seems I need to do it again. Topps did not manufacture 12-card baseball grocery cello packs from 1970-1972. Unfortunately, there are a lot of these fake packs that continue to pop up on the market. For … Read more
Between his basic and master set, Jim Brown is the most popular Pre-1970 player in PSA’s football player set registry. It’s no surprise why. Brown was an All-American at Syracuse University, was dominant over his NFL career, then had a successful post-NFL career in film. Brown is the only player in NFL history to average … Read more
Attending the 2021 National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago just wasn’t possible for me. Luckily, growing hobby interest means folks constantly shared terrific images from the event on social media. While I’m sharing photos of many high-end items, you don’t need a $50k bankroll to enjoy The National. Plenty of my friends showed up with … Read more
To celebrate the upcoming NFL season, and in honor of seeing a collector share the following image of an incredibly rare high-grade 1966 Topps football #132 Checklist from The National 2021, I thought I’d do a deeper dive into this notoriously condition sensitive football card. The checklist is the most challenging card to find in … Read more
The second article I ever published on the blog was back in January of 2020, and it was titled Rising Prices: 1974 Topps Basketball Unopened. In it, I talked about how vintage unopened had been going up in price and shared photos of most of the 1974 Topps Basketball unopened products that exist. Later in … Read more
The value of many vintage unopened boxes isn’t just in the value of the cards that could be in the packs but in the scarcity of the box itself. In the case of 1968 Topps hockey, not only does the set contain a few incredible cards, but you rarely see an unopened box come to … Read more
In June 2021, I wrote about the 1981 and 1982 Topps Baseball Cello Sheets and how interesting it was that Topps used their wax packs to advertise their cello products. Well, that’s not the first time Topps did something interesting on sell sheets from a marketing perspective. The 1979 Topps baseball sell sheets, for wax-packs, … Read more
I’ve written about 1957 Topps a bit before on the blog. First, when I talked about the 4 Contest Cards, and a few months later, the 1957 Topps Cello Pack came up in a conversation about wrappers used in cello packs between 1957 and 1961. With the set’s popularity, it’s no surprise the unopened wax … Read more