Pack issue in heritage auctions

1all · #1 10-05-2013, 10:52 AM

From what I understand, grading and legitimizing of "Grocery Cello Packs" from 1970 and 1971 was the beginning to the end for GAI pack grading (or some may say the end of the end). This mistake lost them a LOT of credibility since it was quickly discovered that Topps never made a "Grocery Cello Pack" in those years.

Jose - I don't see the '71 cello pack marked as "Grocery" on the flip. Is there another way to determine whether this is a legit '71 cello vs the homemade "Grocery Pack".

I think that it's incredibly encouraging that Heritage pulled the 9.5 Schmidt auction. Honestly, I thought that many of the posts earlier in this thread were sarcastic reactions to the OP but maybe I should have given the folks here more credit. Kudos.

Doug

pepis · #2 10-19-2013, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1all

From what I understand, grading and legitimizing of "Grocery Cello Packs" from 1970 and 1971 was the beginning to the end for GAI pack grading (or some may say the end of the end). This mistake lost them a LOT of credibility since it was quickly discovered that Topps never made a "Grocery Cello Pack" in those years.

Jose - I don't see the '71 cello pack marked as "Grocery" on the flip. Is there another way to determine whether this is a legit '71 cello vs the homemade "Grocery Pack".

I think that it's incredibly encouraging that Heritage pulled the 9.5 Schmidt auction. Honestly, I thought that many of the posts earlier in this thread were sarcastic reactions to the OP but maybe I should have given the folks here more credit. Kudos.

Doug

The 3 packs that i mentioned here are complete/total fakes and Heritage has
now take them all down & out, that's a good thing WELL DONE!!

Rich Klein · #3 10-19-2013, 06:55 PM

A non-infammatory way to bring up what can be a delicate issue for an AH

No none blew up, the AH as you would expect from Heritage did the right thing and the preview helped show the problem.

Now, if we could only have gotten Travis to act that way

Rich

pepis · #4 10-21-2013, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Rich Klein

A non-infammatory way to bring up what can be a delicate issue for an AH

No none blew up, the AH as you would expect from Heritage did the right thing and the preview helped show the problem.

Now, if we could only have gotten Travis to act that way

Rich

Well some of the problem was fixed,, but there is still a couple of questionable
items/packs left and unfortunately some innocent collector may end up with them,
like the old saying says what you don't know won't hurt you!! at list until you find out that you've been duped.

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