Values on the rise for pre-war?

[BBB]

All it will take is a couple hundred million more to hit the trash can lol

Originally Posted by wolf441

Mark it down, my case of 1987 Topps will be ON FIRE in 2087!!! I'll be long gone, but still...

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by BBB

All it will take is a couple hundred million more to hit the trash can lol

what is the most any graded 1987 topps card has sold for in the past 5 years?

[glchen]

Not sure about 1987 Topps, but a 1986 Topps Jerry Rice recently sold for $12K: Link

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by glchen

Not sure about 1987 Topps, but a 1986 Topps Jerry Rice recently sold for $12K: Link

so maybe it wouldn't of been a bad idea to save those 1987 topps football when everyone pre-bubble thought they would be worth keeping..maybe they were right! maybe the bubble never burst..

(incidentally I checked the Rice link... Four bid retractions? when the card was in the 10k range? fishy?)

was asking about 1987 topps baseball actually though...

[jcmtiger]

Originally Posted by glchen

Not sure about 1987 Topps, but a 1986 Topps Jerry Rice recently sold for $12K: Link

"Insane!!!!!!!"

Joe

[darwinbulldog]

Yeah, well, Jerry Rice is the greatest receiver in NFL history, and that's a rookie card. Clearly it's overpriced by any of our standards, but it does make more sense than this:

http://smalltraditions.com/1986-topp...r-lot2473.aspx

[BBB]

That 1986 Sandberg brings up this old question...

Could certain card pops be low simply b/c no one thinks they are worth submitting? Won't the market get flooded after a sale like this w/ folks submitting theirs to try and cash in on the trend and cause the values to come crashing back down to reality? I probably donated cards like this because they were not worth the cardboard they were printed on. Could someone interested in playing the odds simply submit a couple hundred top condition value-less star cards for a few thousand and then sell 2 or 3 of those hundreds of cards for $1,000s and toss the rest in the garbage? Could it be that simple?

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by BBB

That 1986 Sandberg brings up this old question...

Could certain card pops be low simply b/c no one thinks they are worth submitting? Won't the market get flooded after a sale like this w/ folks submitting theirs to try and cash in on the trend and cause the values to come crashing back down to reality? I probably donated cards like this because they were not worth the cardboard they were printed on. Could someone interested in playing the odds simply submit a couple hundred top condition value-less star cards for a few thousand and then sell 2 or 3 of those hundreds of cards for $1,000s and toss the rest in the garbage? Could it be that simple?

Not that I ever think they will be worth money, but I know there are a lot less 1989 Topps Traded commons than there are cards of Griffey because there was a person that broke up thousands of sets and graded all the Griffey cards. He sold some of the other stars in huge groups and trashed the commons. I'm sure other people have done the same, though I doubt they did it in the bulk that he did.