WIREPHOTO [HOCKEY]: Wayne Gretzky - [12/20/86] 'Breaking Away' (Oilers)

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WIREPHOTO [HOCKEY]: Wayne Gretzky - [12/20/86] 'Breaking Away' (Oilers) cards value

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1960 Pirates Tag-Ons Stickers

This super neat item was similar to but 8 years BEFORE one of my favorites, the 1968 Topps Baseball Action Stickers. There's a link to that issue at the bottom of this snipet.

This great item was issued by Richard-Lawrence Co. of Pittsburgh and honors the legendary World Series champion 1960 Pirates who had just humbled the mighty Yankees.
The (10) 'Tag-Ons' (stickers) inside the brilliantly colorful 16x10 cardboard envelope feature: Roberto Clemente, Dick Stuart, William Mazeroski, Don Hoak, Richard Groat, Robert Skinner, Bill Virdon, Forrest Burgess, Bob Friend and Elroy Face. Notice the formal first names used for "William" Mazeroski, "Richard" Groat and "Forrest" Burgess. 1960 Pirates Tag-Ons

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1960 Pirates Tag-Ons Stickers
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1960 Fleer Baseball card checklist, values and prices.
1968 Topps Action All Stars Stickers

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.
They sold everything !!!

Topps work product included mockups, design alternatives, artwork, photos, negatives, transparencies, flexichromes, proof sheets, color separations, uncut sheets...
a host of confusing intermediate steps getting to the final card.
Also: Player's contracts, Canceled checks, Letters, Unredeemedand redemption prizes, Special Binders of card sets...
They sold everything !!!

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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How long have sports cards been around ? (part 2)

The first important and mainstream basketball set was issued by Bowman in 1948. Other than a Topps set in 1957-58 and a 1961-62 Fleer set, there were no mainstream basketball sets issued until Topps started producing yearly sets beginning with their 1969-70 set featuring the rookie card of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who then went under the name of Lew Alcindor.

In hockey, there were a few sets issued in the 1910's and while O-Pee-Chee issued some sets in the 1930's, the real modern sets began in 1951 with the itroduction of Parkhurst's first set.

In racing, while cards go back as far as the early Indy car days of 1911, modern racing sets began in 1988 with the issues released by MAXX.