Oldest packs you've opened?

[hcv123]

Originally Posted by tedzan

BUYER BEWARE !

The last 1949 Bowman pack (approx. 8 years ago) was a FAKE. I won it off ebay and was excited to open it.

My excitement instantly turned to disappointment, as it was obviously gimmicked up......

1st....it had a skinny slab of Topps gum in it (Bowman bubble gum was the same size as the cards).

2nd....the 5 cards in it were from 4 different series in the 1949 set (a real NO-NO).

3rd....and, the condition of the 5 cards ranged from Vg to ExMt.


I confronted the seller with this and he didn't want to hear it. He claimed he won this "unopened" pack from a
well-known Auction house.

Furthermore, ebay's Safe Harbor mediator ruled in favor of the seller. And, you don't want to know the details
of how the mediator arrived at that judgment....as they were outrageous.


TED Z

Just brought back a BAD memory (fortunatley with a decent ending)- I purchased a magazine described as near mint with Marilyn Monroe on the cover - when it arrived, in addition to the staples being rusted, the cover was actually seperated from the magazine!! At the time it went to the ebay insurer - I will not bore you with more details - but after the insurance co approved the claim, then denied the claim, and I pursued it at length, I ended up with reimbursement and the magazine - idiots!

[Leon]

Nice job on the old '54 FB rip, Michael. That is pretty cool. I believe that nowadays the gum is so small it's not even there, but I don't know that for sure . I know I ripped '68 thru '73 packs, as a kid.

I guess I could rip this one from 1938 and see who's in it .

[canjond]

[ALR-bishop]

Very nice Jon.

If you have a party maybe you can light one up and pass it around

[JasonL]

but that card looks trimmed to me!


(actually, very cool...thanks for sharing that one)

some wicked good centering on that one...

[canjond]

Actually - I must confess, I was not the original person to open the pack. The card and pack were opened, and then sold to me as such. It's actually a little unfortunate - I would have LOVED for that pack to stay unopened.

[canjond]

And on a side note, you can clearly see how the card was packed in the pack... it had it's back facing the cigarettes and the top part of the card was right under the flap (you can actually see a "soiling" mark below where the flap extended down to, leaving an outline of the flap.

[Rickyy]

My earliest memory was opening a 1967 wax pack as a little tyke..my dad bought it for me at the US NAVAL BASE exchange..but since I didn't collect them at the time I can't recall what cards were in them. I do recall opening 1971 cello pack that came in those blue box. I was seriously collecting between 1972-1975 as a kid so I vividly recall opening packs from those years many times over. Funniest one was buying 2 wax boxes at a local 7-11 in 1975 and going what the @$#%! All the cards were miniatures..( I live in N. Calif ) then I went to the local drug store and found regular size cards...I went back to 7-11 and told them they sold strange cards..and the guy at the counter was like kid what are you talking about?

I also remember ripping open a 1971 Topps FB Rack Pack (I remember 2 Andy Russell All Pro cards on the front) and some 73 rack packs towards the end of the baseball season and getting cards from multiple series...

Ricky Yo