Posted on 02/01/2024 4:26:23 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
A Regina family has stumbled upon what one company is calling “the greatest unopened find of the 21st century” that could be worth millions.
According to Heritage Auctions, the family found an unopened case of 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee hockey cards that are the only known case from Wayne Gretzky’s rookie season, which would mean a pretty penny for serious collectors.
The case features 16 boxes of 48 packs with 14 cards per pack, meaning there are 10,752 cards in the unopened case. And while many of those cards won’t be worth much, there could be several that could be worth thousands and even millions.
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Will Geraldo Rivera cover the opening of this treasure trove?
Yup but I believe the auction house is in Texas.
50 bucks??? A carton of Kools would get more than that in Philly.
“Yeah, an’ it’s an original card, too. In mint—pristine condition. That’s right. It’s worth a hundred...thousand—a MILLION dollars! Yeah, that’s the ticket! A cool million dollars! AMERICAN dollars!” —Tommy Flanagallen
Cool!
Makes me wish I had kept my old 1970’s era baseball cards and comics. I had the entire John Byrne run of the X-Men from that time period. :-(
If there are only two of something, and twenty-seven more are added, the two are going to take a big hit.
27 at 100-350K each is nothing to sneeze at, but I don’t think there will be 27 people ponying up a million plus, and many of those who might will figure out that they don’t need to.
What happens if the gum is stuck to the front of the Gretzky card?
Why do people announce when they find such things. Go on the download, or, if you find a jar of u issued gold coins, melt them down....
I am fairly certain a universal entity grades card and the slightest defect causes a reduction in value.
Melting down rare gold coins is maybe one of the most spectacular ways to be really, really stupid. Like, galactically stupid. The really valuable numismatic stuff worth perhaps hundreds of thousands is only worth a couple thousand at best in terms of gold. But it gets worse. A coin dealer or anybody else, they don’t pay the going rate for gold if it is an unrecognizeable blob. Might get half that.
“What happens if the gum is stuck to the front of the Gretzky card?”
LOL! First big laugh I’ve had, today! Thanks. :)
Economy cannot be that bad if there is money floating around for unopened rookie cards.
It’s hard to ascertain the value of something you’d like to sell without letting the cat out of the bag.
1 or 2 Gretzky’s or 1 or 2 from the 40,000 total?
I’m assuming the Gretzky’s, with over 200+ 10’s, but most of them on players who few care about.
I love FR allowing experts to educate on relatively obscure subjects.
I had every issue of the Marvel comics except the #1-3 of the Fantastic Four. 5 or 6 years of 13 or so different Marvel comics. Stacks of ‘em, kept until I moved away from home. Spiderman was my favotite. Thor, Hulk, Dr. Strange, Daredevil...all of them. 10 cents...then they went up to 12 lol
Eventually, later checking my old room, I founnd all had been made off with. I never really tried to determine who, could have been one of several relatives kids.
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