In 1981, Donruss and Fleer challenged Topps’ monopoly, sparking bold marketing battles that reshaped the hobby and fueled the 1980s baseball card boom.
Posts tagged as “Wax Case”
A remarkable 1970-71 O-Pee-Chee Hockey shipping case, discovered in New Brunswick, has surfaced—an ultra-rare survivor!
Here’s another great mid-90s article from Sports Cards Magazine about the unopened collecting niche; this one from Doug Koztoski includes info from Mark Murphy, the…
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…
In “I wish I owned a time machine,” hobby history is this advertisement from the December 1979 issue of The Trader Speaks for “sealed gum…
Tony Galovich wrote the following three-page article about “investing” in unopened card packs and boxes for the June 1992 issue of Alan Kaye’s Sports Cards…
Vintage unopened sports card material has been a popular segment of the hobby for a while now. One of the more prominent companies and industry…