More Topps vintage schtick

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Posted By: Seth B. 

Did you guys see that Topps is now rehashing the 1914 Cracker Jacks series with modern players, even including vintage cracker jacks in packs and some real cracker jack in the box. After the redux of T206 last year (and T205 this year), what's coming next? E90-1 Jason Giambi?

Anyway, these things do look sort of cool for modern cards, and they're keeping the red background/fake green grass look of the originals, though I doubt they'll be done on the same thin cardstock.

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Since a National Dealer has been buying up the Cracker Jacks for the past year, this isn't really the best kept secret...right Ben!

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

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Posted By: jay behrens

I think Patrick is referencing Ben becuse Ben started colelcting CJs about the same time KY started buying them up for Topps.

Jay

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Posted By: Julie

He's paying $100 each for near mint commons--is that suppposed to be good? And "Much more" for HOFers (I should hope so!)

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Posted By: Chris (the illini)

the past few months kit young has been buying any low/mid grade OJ he can find on ebay and at shows. Maybe that is the topps promotion for 2005???

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Posted By: Julie

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Posted By: Chris (the illini)

seems to be Kit's new pet project...

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Posted By: Julie

Hadn't noticed a lot of OJs in KY's catalogues, just the occasional one (which would sit for MONTHS!~). Guess I'd better get back to looking at them carefully.

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

2-3 from me. Also made inquiries as to some N284 HOFers.....I don't think they will bite on OJ's. Maybe so......2004 Upper Deck Vintage has Old Judges in them. 10 in regular set, 20 card subset as well. Then they have blue and red backs on them as well as black.

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Posted By: Julie

in the new Topps set (red and black backs)?

When you look at Runscott's OJ reprints under a 100X microscope, you see an even pattern of real bright pink and green elongated dots! (they're all sepia colored)

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Posted By: Rhett

My brother and I have sold a ton of Old Judges to Kit Young over the past several months. We have talked to Kit and according to him all the cards he is buying are for a private collector with quite a bit of coin that is new to cards but fell in love with the Old Judge set and wanted to start a collection. Initially KY was paying pretty well, but his prices have been slowly dropping. Just FYI

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Posted By: slacks

I sold one to KY last week for a whole lot more than I thought it would go for. ($132.50 for straight VG common that was rebacked.) I'm not too familar with the N172 market, though.

Half the fun for me is the acquisition part of collecting. I don't know if having an instant collection would be quite as gratifying.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

--almost ANYTHING else.

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Posted By: BcD

to his grading standards than I am going to send him all the vg/ex ones I have!

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Posted By: Julie

..in OJs?

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

OJ styled cards of new players. Normal sized though. Red backs have sepia fronts. Rest are colored.