One thing I like to do is to smell the pack. Unopened packs should smell like wax or like a box of crayons. While not 100% foolproof, I did “catch” a pack of 1974 Topps baseball that was resealed with glue by smelling the back. P.S. that pack you showed us looked 99.99% legit. Thanks for sharing!
My favorite year just when I started collecting as a kid 1973 and 74 autograph cards sets they ended up lost over the years so ended up buying back all the sets I had 1972-1985 spent a fortune rebuilding my collection but all mint cards in plastic protectors or albums now in the safe hopefully appreciating in value ?
I would say they were not resealed because how the pack opened cleanly. If someone re-glued them there would be a tear or multiply tears in the wax paper. I would say to you that you got an unsearched pack, it was not unusual for some cards to be reversed in the 1970-1974 topps cards, in fact I opened many that were reversed and sometimes 2 cards would be upside down. Wow!!! What a treat to get taken back to a 1973 wax Topps baseball card opening, thank you sir! I've wanted to add the only card off centering was the Yankees team card, if you look at the lower left vs the lower right it's definitely a cut off slight edge on the left side. However, all the other cards are centered very well: The off centering is Topps fault as I got even 2024 Topps Heritage, a throw back from the 1975 design. Unfortunately 78% of my newer cards are off centered, people can't blame the grading companies because they lose 1 to 3 points right off the top. This cost us hobbist and collectors big time, you would think Topps would get it correct by now but, it's sad because the cost we put into thier cards is lost. They still say they center all of thier cards? It's hogwash, ever wondered why people give up on collecting, considering one of the only few licensed cards are Topps and thier the oldest card makers in the business.
Those were some big, nice pieces of gum Topps inserted in the 70's! My heyday was opening junk wax in the mid-late 80's and, I remember, the gum being smaller. Junk wax were a rip off all around the board haha
Thank you Alex. They are clean man. I got lucky because a lot of Vintage packs, cards come out busted even fresh out of the pack. Thank you as always for watching and commenting.
I run an eBay business where I buy old wax paper wrappers and re-assemble wax packs. Trust me, when I re-seal the packs you couldn't tell the difference. My foldings skills are 10/10. I source my gum pieces from topps 87 packs; so far no one has called me out. The gum flavour changed a lot between 1973 and 1987. The 1987 gum is more tangy. Haters gonna hate on me, but I've been making a lot of $cha-ching doing it. One customer noticed that the corners were rounded on a few cards. I just gave him a refund. Otherwise, no one has complained. Sometimes for fun, I like to throw in doubles of the same card, or I add an extra card. One day I might sneak in a hockey card into a wax re-wrap to see what the customer says. Sometimes, when I re-wrap with an extra card, it creates a tighter wrap, and looks more convincing. Enjoy your commons! (and no rookies, hehe.) And, mine smell even fresher than the original My smell-trick is a secret I won't reveal. But, the wax scent trick is floating on the internet. (All I can say, is that it involves childrens crayons. Any brand will do.)
I agree with others here, every packfrom the 70s has been searched. Steam and an iron can work magic. Don't get suckered out of your money. And yes even hobby boxes are searched.
Absolutely! Thank you Santos. I replied to your comment about the Basketball Packs by the way. Make sure you read it and let me know if you want to. Thank you!!!
Good video ! More education is always good it sucks ppl have to rely on a group like PSA an becket for authenticating ! I question these so called professionals they have working for them .
@@LACollection I'm no professional card grader but define professional card grader ! I mean i can look at a card for about 6 to 8 seconds and give it an honest to goodness grade which I'm sure you could as well . corners , centering edges and surface ! The 4 variables ! Just curious as to how much $ these so called card graders make .
@@LACollection It's bullshit they wouldn't authenticate your packs but I suppose rules are rules ! More bullshit I wish I could have came up with the idea of grading cards . When I was growing up in the 80s and early 90s all we had was a becket ! Near mt to meant excellent and then good condition those were the 4 categories .
@@LACollection Actually is one of the smallest. Tied with 74-75-76-77 if you don't count the NNO team checklists. If you include them, then 75 and 77 are tied for smallest sets of decade.
Don't be fooled out of your money, people, every pack of cards from 1979 on back has been searched. PSA cannot tell if a pack has been opened or not unless it was done by n00bs.
Great video. Goes w/o saying, but that's the Schmidt rookie card year. Not sure if these were in three series, but if that is the case that 3rd series is tuff since moms & pops usually didn't order late into the baseball season since some didn't sell out their 2nd series & brokers didn't bother ordering late into the year. Keep doing those breaks. Rack box next?
My only concern with the pack was no wax in the fold of the upper left corner. However, you usually need to break 2 folds to get the cards out , plus no tiny tear on the inside middle of the wrapper ( which usually happens if you only unfold one inside corner )....I think it was a legit pack 👍
Let me tell you something. my buddies parents owned a convenience store in the 80s middle 80’s and the parents orderedcards wax packs boxes my buddy opened up all the packs to get all the rookie cards and replace them with common cards and then resealed it. How did he reseal those packs?with a warm iron. Plenty of scams out there
Hey LouRok! Ya man, me too! I love the 73 Clemente ( I love ALL Clementes) Oh well, got a few more so hopefully in the next one! Thank you for watching and commenting bro.
what source do you use when you buy baseball cards do you use becket do you have a book that became popular in the 2000's? what source do you use when looking at prices? I use becket I see Barry bonds in 1986 traded set goes for 15.00? I spoke to my parent's and we can't find the Cey/Schmidt rookie card I had 2 I can't find one of them so right now i'm holding off selling my card in 2 weeks it maybe different but right now i'm not selling that card. just to let you know.
Hi Mark, I apologize about the late reply. It's good to remember that there is never a bad time to sell your cards. The sports card market is always good, just sometimes it's better. I would use the Beckett Almanac for a general idea on what cards are "worth" but unfortunately, cards are worth what people are willing to pay for them. So there are cards with a book-value of $50 that sell for $10 (because its not popular or appreciated) and there are cards with a book value of $75 that sell for $120 (because that card/set/yr is super popular) The sports card market is many times a major popularity contest along with the sports world. Best thing you can do is check eBay SOLD prices but know that things usually sell higher on eBay than the realistic price (due to competition on eBay) Many times, you will sell a card in-person for about 20-30% less in person or at a show than on eBay (but eBay is still a great source to see how the market is doing at any particular time) Please let me know if you found the Schmidt RC cards as I am absolutely interested! Hope this helps give you some guidance. Thank you for watching and commenting.
@@LACollection They found my show case but no cards I'm missing a 60 Yaz rookie, 69 Jackson rookie, 78 Trammell/ Molitor Rookie and My Cey/Schmidt rookie I have one but I need another one so I can sell that other one. none of the 4 cards have shown up.
The NYY team card (even though they weren't very good during that stretch) if graded out nicely could be the best card there. The '73 Davey Johnson was one of my favorites as a kid. This was the beginning of seeing some game action photos on cards in the Topps traditional sets. Previously they were almost exclusively still photo shots.
Just like with cards, with packs, check the corners first...they should look neatly wrapped like a present. No really, take a sealed late 80s Topps pack and try to open it in such a way that you can look through the cards and get them back the way you found them AND put the pack back exactly the way you found it with the corners still looking as neatly wrapped like a present. TOUGH JOB.
Great content! I have watched many of your videos and they are dope. Great information. They have definitely helped reignite my love for the hobby. If you get a chance check out Another Hollis Build and lemme know what you think. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks and keep up the great work! 🔥
why is it 2019 and your just getting around to opening these cards? did your parents purchased the cards in 1973 or did you recently buy them? oops you struck out No Cey and Schmidt Rookie, no Ryan , No Gibson, No Brock, No Clemente, No Carlton, No Hank Arron , No Rose , No Munson, Palmer, no Gossage, No Mays No Hunter, no Jackson, Bench ect. the best card you have is the Garrett card. for what it's worth if the graders are in your home town and you can get to there place to get your cards graded that's fine but if you have to send the cards out all you have is commons which are about 2.00 but this is a 2015 Becket so the prices went down. in 2015 Becket card 482 Rickey Henderson rookie 40.00 near mint , mint 80.00 1993 Derek Jeter Rookie card 98 10.00 near mint, Mint 25.00 card 615 Schmidt/cey excellent 75.00 near mint 150.00 in the most recent Beckett Joe Adell on the cover card 482 Rickey Henderson rookie 40.00 near mint, Mint 80,00 1993 Derek Jeter Rookie card 98 6.00 near mint , Mint 15.00 the new Beckett starts in 1980 your cards have no value there old there nice to look at but I wouldn't worry about the grading my guess is there about 2.00 dollars a card?
Hey Mark, I bought the pack recently. I like breaking vintage wax packs. I tend to like the vintage era of players/cards than the modern era. Yes, grading is always a challenge and your cards can end up being worth even less after spending the time/money on grading. Do you have any of the cards you mentioned that you might want to sell? Sounds like you used to be a collector. Let me know and thank you for stopping by and watching the video.
@@LACollection I agree on this part the older cards blow away the newer cards. I'm a collector to Baseball cards been a collector for a long time. to me Baseball cards are worth more than money there beautiful to look at you can always have money but you can't always get that card that you had as a kid. yes you can rebuy a card but you can't get that card back. the Rickey Henderson I got in a wax pack for like 75. cents I'm certainly holding onto this card forever. the Jeter I got at a sports store in a mall I'm holding onto that card even if the card stays at 15.00 for the next 3 months, i'm keeping this card. I am looking to unload the Cey and Schmidt rookie card this is not my card like the Gibson is I bought the Cey rookie card in 1991 while being in a rush assuming I can find my other card? I will know more wedneseday night. The Gibson I got in 1973 when I was a kid. right now 50 50 on selling it.
Very informative !
@@dennishaas4745 Awesome! Thank you for watching and commenting.
One thing I like to do is to smell the pack. Unopened packs should smell like wax or like a box of crayons. While not 100% foolproof, I did “catch” a pack of 1974 Topps baseball that was resealed with glue by smelling the back. P.S. that pack you showed us looked 99.99% legit. Thanks for sharing!
The "Bobs" pack lol
Lol. Thank you for watching and commenting.
dude.....how many of these came back 10's? the centering on front looks incredible.
5th series high numbers
My favorite year just when I started collecting as a kid 1973 and 74 autograph cards sets they ended up lost over the years so ended up buying back all the sets I had 1972-1985 spent a fortune rebuilding my collection but all mint cards in plastic protectors or albums now in the safe hopefully appreciating in value
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Very informative. Thanks for refreshing some great memories for me!
Absolutely! Appreciate you stopping by and watching and subscribing. Thank you!
Great cards. . .but what a pack of spares.
Yes they are!
"Gum is loose" is a terrible reason. It's gum, it happens.
I would say they were not resealed because how the pack opened cleanly. If someone re-glued them there would be a tear or multiply tears in the wax paper. I would say to you that you got an unsearched pack, it was not unusual for some cards to be reversed in the 1970-1974 topps cards, in fact I opened many that were reversed and sometimes 2 cards would be upside down. Wow!!! What a treat to get taken back to a 1973 wax Topps baseball card opening, thank you sir! I've wanted to add the only card off centering was the Yankees team card, if you look at the lower left vs the lower right it's definitely a cut off slight edge on the left side. However, all the other cards are centered very well: The off centering is Topps fault as I got even 2024 Topps Heritage, a throw back from the 1975 design. Unfortunately 78% of my newer cards are off centered, people can't blame the grading companies because they lose 1 to 3 points right off the top. This cost us hobbist and collectors big time, you would think Topps would get it correct by now but, it's sad because the cost we put into thier cards is lost. They still say they center all of thier cards? It's hogwash, ever wondered why people give up on collecting, considering one of the only few licensed cards are Topps and thier the oldest card makers in the business.
If it had been searched, I doubt the Dave (Davey) Johnson would be there. A PSA 9 goes for about $200.
Yes, fully agree with that! Thank you for watching and commenting.
Those were some big, nice pieces of gum Topps inserted in the 70's! My heyday was opening junk wax in the mid-late 80's and, I remember, the gum being smaller. Junk wax were a rip off all around the board haha
Nice! The good old days man.
Appreciate you watching and commenting.
Gum went small in 1984.
Unfortunately no HOF but the cards were great. Love the video. Thanks 4 sharing bro.👍
Awesome vintage cards!!! New subscriber here👍🏼🐟
Hey man, I got Subbed to you too! Thank you for watching and commenting.
Wow! Those cards are clean! Beautiful cards.
Thank you Alex. They are clean man. I got lucky because a lot of Vintage packs, cards come out busted even fresh out of the pack. Thank you as always for watching and commenting.
Would love to see you pull a Mike Schmidt rookie card 😁
That would have been super sweet! Thank you for watching and commenting 😁😁😁
Stop biting your nails. I had to put Jalapeneo juice on mine. It worked...good video.
Every card had Bob or Beene, except the Dave Johnson. and all centered? Looks like a reseal.
I run an eBay business where I buy old wax paper wrappers and re-assemble wax packs. Trust me, when I re-seal the packs you couldn't tell the difference. My foldings skills are 10/10. I source my gum pieces from topps 87 packs; so far no one has called me out. The gum flavour changed a lot between 1973 and 1987. The 1987 gum is more tangy. Haters gonna hate on me, but I've been making a lot of $cha-ching doing it.
One customer noticed that the corners were rounded on a few cards. I just gave him a refund. Otherwise, no one has complained. Sometimes for fun, I like to throw in doubles of the same card, or I add an extra card. One day I might sneak in a hockey card into a wax re-wrap to see what the customer says.
Sometimes, when I re-wrap with an extra card, it creates a tighter wrap, and looks more convincing.
Enjoy your commons! (and no rookies, hehe.)
And, mine smell even fresher than the original My smell-trick is a secret I won't reveal. But, the wax scent trick is floating on the internet. (All I can say, is that it involves childrens crayons. Any brand will do.)
I agree with others here, every packfrom the 70s has been searched. Steam and an iron can work magic.
Don't get suckered out of your money. And yes even hobby boxes are searched.
Always cool to open 70s wax!!!
Hey Josh, ya man these are very cool. Thank you for watching and commenting man. I have a few more vintage pack breaks coming soon.
Great rip there in great cond.congratz on ur 500 subs.nice team card
Absolutely! Thank you Santos. I replied to your comment about the Basketball Packs by the way. Make sure you read it and let me know if you want to. Thank you!!!
Love the Break Man! I love Mint 73's!!
Thanks bro, #MeToo! I just broke another 73 Pack and pulled some crazy shit. I'll upload it pretty soon. I appreciate you watching and commenting Bro.
Good video ! More education is always good it sucks ppl have to rely on a group like PSA an becket for authenticating ! I question these so called professionals they have working for them .
Yes, it's crazy how successful these freaking companies have become over the years.
@@LACollection I'm no professional card grader but define professional card grader ! I mean i can look at a card for about 6 to 8 seconds and give it an honest to goodness grade which I'm sure you could as well . corners , centering edges and surface ! The 4 variables ! Just curious as to how much $ these so called card graders make .
@@LACollection It's bullshit they wouldn't authenticate your packs but I suppose rules are rules ! More bullshit I wish I could have came up with the idea of grading cards . When I was growing up in the 80s and early 90s all we had was a becket ! Near mt to meant excellent and then good condition those were the 4 categories .
I'm no expert on unopened wax but who really is. The pack seemed good to me.
Agreed John! Thank you for watching and commenting.
WOW! Unopened 1973 pack!? 😮😀
That's incredible!
Yupp! Crazy. I got some more vintage wax I will be busting very soon by the way.
Too bad that pack was already searched
Lot of the gum is usually broken
Yes, sometimes depending on the climate they are kept in.
One of the coolest sets ever produced.
Agreed bro! Very clean look and tons of legends in the set.
But also a HUGE set to build so that makes it a bigger challenge than most sets.
@@LACollection Actually is one of the smallest. Tied with 74-75-76-77 if you don't count the NNO team checklists. If you include them, then 75 and 77 are tied for smallest sets of decade.
Don't be fooled out of your money, people, every pack of cards from 1979 on back has been searched. PSA cannot tell if a pack has been opened or not unless it was done by n00bs.
Great video. Goes w/o saying, but that's the Schmidt rookie card year. Not sure if these were in three series, but if that is the case that 3rd series is tuff since moms & pops usually didn't order late into the baseball season since some didn't sell out their 2nd series & brokers didn't bother ordering late into the year. Keep doing those breaks. Rack box next?
It was the same series. High numbers in 73 were Series 5.
Thanks for posting it. I'd submit the Johnson and Didier. Centering is borderline for a 9 but they are low pop 9s if you hit one.
the pack was good yes the cards was 1 way and half way into pack they flipped i must have opened more than 500 packs i have a 5000 count of these lol
Nice condition. Looked legit to me.
Hey The Hobbyist! Ya, it looks good. Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Just found your channel and I liked & subbed. Nice vintage break. Looking forward to seeing more in the future. Thanks for sharing.
My only concern with the pack was no wax in the fold of the upper left corner. However, you usually need to break 2 folds to get the cards out , plus no tiny tear on the inside middle of the wrapper ( which usually happens if you only unfold one inside corner )....I think it was a legit pack 👍
Wow 73 are so hard to get good centering nice break
Absolutely! And thank you for watching and commenting.
Let me tell you something. my buddies parents owned a convenience store in the 80s middle 80’s and the parents orderedcards wax packs boxes my buddy opened up all the packs to get all the rookie cards and replace them with common cards and then resealed it. How did he reseal those packs?with a warm iron. Plenty of scams out there
cards were super sharp...was hoping u would pull the Clemente
Hey LouRok! Ya man, me too! I love the 73 Clemente ( I love ALL Clementes)
Oh well, got a few more so hopefully in the next one! Thank you for watching and commenting bro.
Not in the High"s run , if he had pulled a Roberto Clemente , it for sure was a reseal pack ....LOL
what source do you use when you buy baseball cards do you use becket do you have a book that became popular in the 2000's? what source do you use when looking at prices? I use becket I see Barry bonds in 1986 traded set goes for 15.00?
I spoke to my parent's and we can't find the Cey/Schmidt rookie card I had 2 I can't find one of them so right now i'm holding off selling my card in 2 weeks it maybe different but right now i'm not selling that card. just to let you know.
Hi Mark, I apologize about the late reply. It's good to remember that there is never a bad time to sell your cards. The sports card market is always good, just sometimes it's better.
I would use the Beckett Almanac for a general idea on what cards are "worth" but unfortunately, cards are worth what people are willing to pay for them. So there are cards with a book-value of $50 that sell for $10 (because its not popular or appreciated) and there are cards with a book value of $75 that sell for $120 (because that card/set/yr is super popular)
The sports card market is many times a major popularity contest along with the sports world. Best thing you can do is check eBay SOLD prices but know that things usually sell higher on eBay than the realistic price (due to competition on eBay) Many times, you will sell a card in-person for about 20-30% less in person or at a show than on eBay (but eBay is still a great source to see how the market is doing at any particular time)
Please let me know if you found the Schmidt RC cards as I am absolutely interested!
Hope this helps give you some guidance. Thank you for watching and commenting.
@@LACollection They found my show case but no cards I'm missing a 60 Yaz rookie, 69 Jackson rookie, 78 Trammell/ Molitor Rookie
and My Cey/Schmidt rookie I have one but I need another one so I can sell that other one. none of the 4 cards have shown up.
The NYY team card (even though they weren't very good during that stretch) if graded out nicely could be the best card there. The '73 Davey Johnson was one of my favorites as a kid. This was the beginning of seeing some game action photos on cards in the Topps traditional sets. Previously they were almost exclusively still photo shots.
Hi there, yes the NY Team card is nice! Good to know, appreciate you sharing that with me. Thank you for watching and commenting as well.
The Dave Johnson is tough in a 9. It may a bit too far off centered but a 9 is a $200+ card.
Nice cards, look at the centering on those!
Ya, super clean right! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Just like with cards, with packs, check the corners first...they should look neatly wrapped like a present. No really, take a sealed late 80s Topps pack and try to open it in such a way that you can look through the cards and get them back the way you found them AND put the pack back exactly the way you found it with the corners still looking as neatly wrapped like a present. TOUGH JOB.
Resealed
Resealed pack.
You need to put the cards right into a card saver and handle them more carefully and send them to PSA if you think they might grade a 9 or a 10.
Thanks Bob and will do! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Never seen a pack with all below average players, I think PSA was right, you got scammed.
Way to easy to open, you got scammed
PSA is not perfect!
Great content! I have watched many of your videos and they are dope. Great information. They have definitely helped reignite my love for the hobby. If you get a chance check out Another Hollis Build and lemme know what you think. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks and keep up the great work! 🔥
Yes, I absolutely will do. Thank you man.
why is it 2019 and your just getting around to opening these cards? did your parents purchased the cards in 1973 or did you recently buy them?
oops you struck out No Cey and Schmidt Rookie, no Ryan , No Gibson, No Brock, No Clemente, No Carlton, No Hank Arron , No Rose , No Munson, Palmer, no Gossage, No Mays No Hunter, no Jackson, Bench ect. the best card you have is the Garrett card.
for what it's worth if the graders are in your home town and you can get to there place to get your cards graded that's fine but if you have to send the cards out all you have is commons which are about 2.00 but this is a 2015 Becket so the prices went down.
in 2015 Becket card 482 Rickey Henderson rookie 40.00 near mint , mint 80.00
1993 Derek Jeter Rookie card 98 10.00 near mint, Mint 25.00
card 615 Schmidt/cey excellent 75.00 near mint 150.00
in the most recent Beckett Joe Adell on the cover
card 482 Rickey Henderson rookie 40.00 near mint, Mint 80,00
1993 Derek Jeter Rookie card 98 6.00 near mint , Mint 15.00
the new Beckett starts in 1980 your cards have no value there old there nice to look at but I wouldn't worry about the grading my guess is there about 2.00 dollars a card?
Hey Mark, I bought the pack recently. I like breaking vintage wax packs. I tend to like the vintage era of players/cards than the modern era.
Yes, grading is always a challenge and your cards can end up being worth even less after spending the time/money on grading.
Do you have any of the cards you mentioned that you might want to sell? Sounds like you used to be a collector. Let me know and thank you for stopping by and watching the video.
@@LACollection I agree on this part the older cards blow away the newer cards. I'm a collector to Baseball cards been a collector for a long time.
to me Baseball cards are worth more than money there beautiful to look at you can always have money but you can't always get that card that you had as a kid. yes you can rebuy a card but you can't get that card back.
the Rickey Henderson I got in a wax pack for like 75. cents I'm certainly holding onto this card forever.
the Jeter I got at a sports store in a mall I'm holding onto that card even if the card stays at 15.00 for the next 3 months, i'm keeping this card.
I am looking to unload the Cey and Schmidt rookie card this is not my card like the Gibson is I bought the Cey rookie card in 1991 while being in a rush assuming I can find my other card? I will know more wedneseday night. The Gibson I got in 1973 when I was a kid.
right now 50 50 on selling it.
At least your not a total cringe with rubber gloves on...
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I think it was legit.
Ya me too but it was questionable. Thank you so much for watching and commenting. 😁
Get a manicure, dude. Holy cripes.