Vintage Sports Cards – Baseball – Basketball – Football – Hockey
Well, wouldn’t you know it? Hot on the heels of my previous article about 1960s Topps Baseball Dealer Sell Sheets, I stumble across an incredible Topps point-of-sale order booklet from 1966. High Card Company sold the booklet for $301 in September 2017, and as a time capsule, it adds a layer of insight to the … Read more
This is my fourth post defining groups of post-war sports card checklists. Earlier, I wrote about: This article is about four hockey checklists I call the Oreo Cookie hockey card checklists, the pair of checklists in the 1965 and 1966 Topps hockey sets. If you’re a graphic artist or card designer and you’ve got to … Read more
As I wrote last week’s article about Bobby Orr and the 1966 Topps USA Test set, the wood grain borders reminded me of other sets with a similar look and feel. And love them or hate them, you definitely have an opinion about the faux wood grain bordered cards; they’re pretty unforgettable once you see … Read more
The 1966 Topps Hockey Series 1 pack held Bobby Orr’s rookie card that hobbyists consider a Top-200 card of all-time is one of the most sought-after hockey cards in the market today. But Topps also made a USA Test hockey set that they printed in minimal numbers that year. And it’s the USA Test Bobby … 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
I’ll often find cards I’m interested in buying for my collection in larger lots at auction houses. I’ll buy the lot and sell the cards I don’t need. A year or two ago, one of the cards highlighted in a lot I purchased was the 1966 Topps #591 N.L. Rookie Stars Bart Shirley Grant Jackson … Read more