In 1966, Fleer sold the last of its baseball player contracts to Topps after fighting them in court for its aggressiveness in securing exclusive player…
Post War Cards
Here’s the original flexichrome artwork for John Huarte’s 1965 Topps #117 Football card. Ron Oser Enterprises offered it in their December 2000 auction catalog. They…
Welcome to the Uncut Sheet Archive! This is the hub for all the articles I’ve written about uncut sheets, sorted by sport and set. My…
Here’s one of the scarcest non-sport collectibles in the hobby from the Walter Johnson Candy Company, a 1930s Dick Tracy R41 set wrapper. In November…
Welcome to the relaunched Unopened Archive! It used to have pages with photos of packs, wrappers, boxes, and cases from all the big pre- and…
T.S. O’Connell wrote an excellent article for Sports Cards Magazines’ April 1995 issue about World Series Cards; these were his Top 10. What do you…
My favorite thing about the hobby is interacting with other collectors and hobby historians and learning about new items. Well, on the morning of May…