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1968 Topps Action All-Star Stickers
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Another one of my favorite Topps test issues !!!   In 1968, trying to catch the fancy of young collectors, Topps issued a set of "Baseball Action Stickers", also called "Action All-Stars Stickers". 1968 was a huge year for Topps with their test/oddball issues of Game cards, Player Posters, 3-D cards, Plaks, Discs and Punchouts.

Topps 1968 "Baseball Action Stickers" consisted of (16) 3-part sticker panel strips containing removable, die-cut stickers. They were PACKED !!! Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Clemente, Seaver, Yastrzemski ... There are (16) different three-panel stickers in the set but only 12 contain totally different panels. Stickers #13 thru #16 re-used panels from the first 12 strips.

Each (15 3/4" by 3 1/4") strip had (3) 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inch panels, perforated at the joints for separation. Each strip featured a large image of a star player in the center, with smaller pictures of three players on top & bottom panels. The large sticker and some of the others had facsimile autographs The peel-able back was blank-backed. The strip was folded along 2 perforations and placed in it's pack.

Sold in 1-sticker packs in 1968 with 12 packs/box; at ten cents a pack, sets could be put together for just $1.60. Today, if you could find them, a mid four figures or more would be needed to build a set. Today a complete 3-panel sticker with Mantle in the center commands up to $2,000 alone.

Complete strips with the 3-panels still attached are so scarce and fragile AND EXPENSIVE that collectors usually collect individual panels and the grading companies including PSA grade the individual panels. The single panels themselves are quite scarce and in the 23 years PSA has been around they have graded just over 200 TOTAL, less than 9 per year !!! The pop report is on the average of only 4 to 5 of each individual panel !!! Compare that to PSA has graded over a thousand 1952 Topps Mickey Mantles !!! Vintage Topps collectors understand supply and demand and just how cool these are !

Proof sheets, usually from Topps Vault, have shown up. This sheet is missing the facsimile autographs.

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Another interesting issue
1960 Pirates Tag-Ons Baseball Stickers

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Autographed Gateway Cachets


Gateway Stamp Company has provided collectors well over 1 MILLION authenticated certified autographs over the last 30 years.
Silk Cachets from Gateway Stamp Company
Even though a "stamp company", Gateway rarely dealt in stamps, going down a new and creative road becoming one of the world's most unique secrets in autograph collecting combining the best in art, color photographs, history and autographs with their full-color silk cachet envelopes. Gateway's first client was Cardinals Hall of Famer Lou Brock with hundreds to follow.

WHAT ARE FULL-COLOR SILK CACHETS?
A "cachet" is a message or design on an envelope marking a postal event. "Full-color silk" refers to the delicate material into which the original art and photography are printed. After which each silk is applied to the envelope, signed by the player and then officially post-marked by the U.S. Post Office IN THE CITY OF THE EVENT !!!

WHY POSTMARKS?
The key to EVERY Gateway cachet is the postmark.The best way to mark a date in history is with a postmark. The rules governing the granting of postmarks GUARANTEE that NO Gateway issue can EVER be re-issued protecting the value of the autographed, postmarked cachets !!!


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Baseball, Football, Basketball & Hockey Memorabilia Cards

It's cool to have a card of your favorite player.
It's even cooler to have your favorite player's jersey or bat.
Well just think how cool it is to have a card of your favorite player embedded with a piece of his bat or jersey that he used in a real major league game !!!
That's the concept that Upper Deck dazzled the hobby with in 1996. Ever since the hobby has been in love with Game-Used memorabilia cards and they have become a staple of sportscard collecting. Originally they were very scarce inserts with less than 1 every few boxes. Now these insert cards are so popular that many products include one in every pack.

Be sure you visit our Game-Used card section with nearly 1,000 available at discount prices.

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