Topps Legendary Vault
From early 1950's on up, Topps has been gathering their rare, unique,
1-of-1 items.
In 1989 they chose Guernsey's Auction House to start unloading
their special rare collectibles. This was such a huge event that
even the auction catalog is a collectible. The auction took place
August 19th and 20th in New York City.
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Topps Vault, Proofs & Blank-Backs
They sold everything !!!
Topps work product included mockups, design alternatives,
artwork, photos, negatives, transparencies, flexichromes,
proof sheets, color separations, uncut sheets...
Also: Player's contracts, Canceled checks, Letters,
Unredeemedand redemption prizes, Special Binders of card sets...
Final proceeds of over 3,000 items was around $1.6 million,
a stunning amount in the day. There were (4) additional pages
of non-sport items via mail-only auctions that remained open
until year end. Collector Keith Olbermann attended the auction
and described it to Sports Illustrated, "It's like an archaeological dig."
Topps archive material continued to accumulate after the auction
ending up with another treasure of over 250,000 transparencies,
uncut sheets, color separations, art, photos, slides, proof sheets
& wrappers, canceled checks, contracts and one-of-a-kind
items to sell.
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Like all collectibles, over time some sports cards go down in value, others go up and some can even become very valuable. Card values are based on many factors: player popularity, scarcity, condition & collector interest. A card can be scarce but without demand value may not be great.
Q: What are some ways to collect cards ?
* Complete sets by year & issue
* Cards of your favorite player
* Cards of your favorite team "TEAM SETS"
* Rookie cards
* Hall-of-Famer cards
* I even had a girlfriend that collected Don Mossi (checkout his ears),
players whose last name start with "Z", and the Brett brothers George &
Ken (she had a crush on George).
* "TYPE COLLECTING" (everyone should at least do a little of this !)
"Type Collecting"
is collecting at least one of each different "type" of issue.
On scarcer issues you can add a less expensive common
while on others you can select your favorite player or team.