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Old 10-18-2022, 12:21 PM
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Default Cello Pack Fake?
I've never seen anything like this so I'm assuming it's a total fantasy piece.
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appears to be a re-packaged pack (similar to those Christmas packs)
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Old 10-18-2022, 02:37 PM
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I was just thinking about those Christmas cello packs today, as there are a few cellos for sale on Ebay. What was the deal with all those Christmas packs?
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Old 10-18-2022, 03:30 PM
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I was just thinking about those Christmas cello packs today, as there are a few cellos for sale on Ebay. What was the deal with all those Christmas packs?
I think some enterprising entrepreneur bought up previously-opened and gently used cards, packaged them together in their own cello pack, stapled a gaudy paper label on top, and sold them to kids at premium outlets like K-Mart during the 80s.
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Old 10-18-2022, 03:45 PM
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The ones that really make me laugh are the ones with the 1950's style header card and 1985 cards. There is a football pack on ebay right now. It looks so out of place like that.
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I think some enterprising entrepreneur bought up previously-opened and gently used cards, packaged them together in their own cello pack, stapled a gaudy paper label on top, and sold them to kids at premium outlets like K-Mart during the 80s.
My K-Mart didn't offer anything like this in the 80s...perhaps the 70s.

The most interesting thing about this pack is I see no hole in the packaging to hang on a store's peg hook like regular issued rack packs have. My guess is a fantasy piece.
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My K-Mart didn't offer anything like this in the 80s...perhaps the 70s.

The most interesting thing about this pack is I see no hole in the packaging to hang on a store's peg hook like regular issued rack packs have. My guess is a fantasy piece.
Maybe growing up in a rural backwater, we were about a decade late on everything, at least at K-Mart.

Agreed that the lack of a hole to hang it on a peg is suspicious.

At the same time, for a fantasy piece, I have to wonder who would bother?!! It’s not like this is a fantasy T206 Wagner or a piece that would scratch an itch for many collectors.
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I was just thinking about those Christmas cello packs today, as there are a few cellos for sale on Ebay. What was the deal with all those Christmas packs?
There is a lot of misinformation that circulates about those Christmas Racks. They are not uncirculated cards, they were produced around the turn of the century and have been an embarrassment for more than 20 years. They are simply repackaged vintage cards and ought to be sold as such. The blather about some being done later than others etc. is nothing more than that, just blather. It's a scam if the cards are being presented as anything more than what I describe.
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There is a lot of misinformation that circulates about those Christmas Racks. They are not uncirculated cards, they were produced around the turn of the century and have been an embarrassment for more than 20 years. They are simply repackaged vintage cards and ought to be sold as such. The blather about some being done later than others etc. is nothing more than that, just blather. It's a scam if the cards are being presented as anything more than what I describe.
I should have added that all the musings about the racks - any of them - ever having been sold at a retail outlet of any description like WalMart, KMart or your local 7-11 is simply nonsense.
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I should have added that all the musings about the racks - any of them - ever having been sold at a retail outlet of any description like WalMart, KMart or your local 7-11 is simply nonsense.
I personally bought the repackaged Christmas packs at KMart in the mid/late 80s. Other than that I know nothing about them.
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appears to be a re-packaged pack (similar to those Christmas packs)
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appears to be a re-packaged pack (similar to those Christmas packs)
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Richard---one of many threads in here on the Christmas packs below. It has links to some of the other prior threads




https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...christmas+pack
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Richard---one of many threads in here on the Christmas packs below. It has links to some of the other prior threads




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Probstein just recently auctioned a couple of those 52 Topps Christmas packs as did one other seller whose name escapes me now.
Both sellers, considering the Christmas packs are not real so to speak, made out pretty well. (Just checked the bay and there are currently 3 of these packs up for sale/auction)
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Richard---one of many threads in here on the Christmas packs below. It has links to some of the other prior threads




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If I ever need a link, I ask Al-R I am not a big fan of cello packs for the reasons mentioned above. I am not sure I could tell the difference between a real cello and a repack anyway.
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I think the fact that they had so many others made me think they probably created them all themselves on a computer.
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