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Old 07-28-2017, 12:24 PM
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Default The Struggle Is Real - 1991 Fleer

Don't judge, but for grins and giggles I picked up three boxes of 1991 Fleer wax. Ugly cards with no redeeming social value, but I thought it might be fun to put a set together the old fashioned way. At $5 a box I over paid a bit, but, hey.

So after three boxes I still come up THREE CARDS SHORT!.

682 Mike Bell
333 Darnell Coles
4 Todd Burns

That's really no a collation problem. It's just dumb luck. I certainly don't see buying another box just for those three, and no one I know of stocks commons from junk era sets.

By chance anyone have these classic gems lying around to spare?
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Hey Mark-- in addition to doing a Topps and Bowman run, also did a Fleer run, 1923 and then 1959 to 2007. For 1991 still looking for the variations to cards 105/125/327/610/662/666. All involve backs but are true variations

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Old 07-28-2017, 03:49 PM
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Reminds me of WAY back in the day, pre internet, I was for some unknown reason trying to put together a set of 1992 Score and no matter how many boxes and packs I opened I could not for the life of my find a Bob Zupcic to finish the set. None of the card shops had one either; being in Boston whatever they had sold quickly.
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Being one of many, I guess, who got back into the hobby in the late '80's and enjoyed the heck out of it I shook my head when I read your post and mumbled to myself "ah the yellow cards".

Have 413 of them hanging around, and one copy each of the three you came up short on. Centering is not the best (pretty common in those days), but other than that they're in great shape.

PM me an address to send them to and I'll get them off to you tomorrow, unless this coastal storm makes it not fit for man nor beast outside - then it would have to be Monday.
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Nice gesture Mr Pinson
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Hey Mark-- in addition to doing a Topps and Bowman run, also did a Fleer run, 1923 and then 1959 to 2007. For 1991 still looking for the variations to cards 105/125/327/610/662/666. All involve backs but are true variations
Al: There is also a variation on the Rick Aguilera 602 card

Most of what we had in COMC had 5 lines in text, I saw one, which has been sold, with 4 lines of text on the back. So you can add that one unless you already have that one
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Al: There is also a variation on the Rick Aguilera 602 card

Most of what we had in COMC had 5 lines in text, I saw one, which has been sold, with 4 lines of text on the back. So you can add that one unless you already have that one
As mentioned above, every card in the set has a variation. Some, like Aguilera, Ready, Karkovice, Azocar, Guerrero are more obvious. Mike Greenwell and Kevin Miller have interesting variations in the stats extending out of the stat area. Lots of photo cropping variations (Alex Fernandez, Dave Hansen) and several that have different arrangements of stat/year groupings separated by horizontal lines.
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The BB Card hobby was so 'hot" in 1991 that for all these companies multiple printing presses were used to produce cards. Needless to say, I'm convinced that helped "cause" these fascinating variations in these sets and IIRC -- there are some interesting Score variations circa 1991 or 1992.

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And here I was all proud of myself for "finishing" my 1991 Fleer set and you guys have to go and buzzkill me.

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Not the worst set ever by far, not even Fleer's worst offering in my opinion. I actually like the yellow border and it has some really nice action shots. I especially like to get nice cards with signatures as well.

I was looking at some signed cards on eBay last night and I have decided that 1988 Topps is absolutely the worst set ever created, at least prior to the UV era (95 Fleer may be THE WORST looking card ever made). There may be a handful of decent individual cards in the set, but a bad crop of rookies and lots of previously popular stars that had retired by then...it's just bad.
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Don't judge, but for grins and giggles I picked up three boxes of 1991 Fleer wax. Ugly cards with no redeeming social value, but I thought it might be fun to put a set together the old fashioned way. At $5 a box I over paid a bit, but, hey.

So after three boxes I still come up THREE CARDS SHORT!.

682 Mike Bell
333 Darnell Coles
4 Todd Burns

That's really no a collation problem. It's just dumb luck. I certainly don't see buying another box just for those three, and no one I know of stocks commons from junk era sets.

By chance anyone have these classic gems lying around to spare?


In 1992, I discovered that you could get the complete set when purchasing an Ultra box....then, I got another box...same thing.

It was a little too automatic for me...I would almost want to be in your place...needing just a few, very frustrating cards. The chase was over before it started.

But maybe that's just me.
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And, thanks to the kindness of 58Pinson, I am now the proud owner of a COMPLETE set of 1991 Fleer cards.

Check that one off the bucket list!
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Old 08-01-2017, 10:52 PM
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And, thanks to the kindness of 58Pinson, I am now the proud owner of a COMPLETE set of 1991 Fleer cards.

Check that one off the bucket list!
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Now you need to put together the variation set. If you break jumbo-cello boxes (hot pink, I believe), they come from a different printer and feature minor-to-major variations of every card in the wax/rack/factory issue.
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You hit the nail on the head, Al. Since reading your posts about 1982 Topps Blackless, I have become fixated on that subject along with other 70s and 80s items I never before considered.

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Old 03-12-2018, 08:11 PM
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I've said this many times in other forums re: 1991 Fleer.

If you want to nail (nearly) every variation, buy a couple of boxes of wax (or rack) and a couple of the pink/magenta poly pack boxes. Those represent cards from each of the two printing facilities. Make the sets separately then combine/compare.
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I am definitely keeping an eye out for pink/magenta poly packs.
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