pack opening experiences

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Posted By: scott

with more unopened tobacco products appearing in auctions,have any of you played the ultimate "pack game' and opened any?early gum issues?

scott

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Posted By: jay behrens

I've gotten to open packs of Honest Long Cuts with t205s in them. I've also seen partial boxes of many of the 30s gum issues, but never opened one. If did own one of them it would be pointless to open it since they usually came one card per pack and you could see what was in the pack.

Jay

My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: leon

Well, at the National our own board member Richard M. bought some new, shiny, card packs to open to try to find a beat T206 Wagner that was advertised. He gave me a handful to open and it was sort of hard to get some of them open. Almost broke a tooth on some of 'em. Believe it or not we didn't pull a Boner (Merkle)....uh...I mean Wagner. Glen V. came by the table a little while later with his young son (sorry I forget his name but he's about 6-7, I would guess) and he was the proud recipient of all of those shiny cards. He looked pretty happy about it too. Thanks Richard for making the little boy happy. As for the topic of this thread I have never opened an unopened tobacco pack that could have had a card in it. I have heard many stories of folks that have though....regards

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Posted By: Rob

Isn't opening a tobacco pack sort of sacreligous - kinda like opening the Ark Of The Covenant?

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Posted By: scott

I've handled over 30 sealed packs over the years that had real posibilities of having a valuble card. I never had the nerve to open one. When I was a kid my parents bought me a music box called " Pop goes the weasle" turn the handle and let the music play when the weasle jumps out out the suspense is over.

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

If I got it cheap, I would open it in a heartbeat. If I had to spend alot to get it, I wouldn't open it.

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Posted By: Chris

I opened two packs of Sweet Caporal only to find nothing. Both had the correct tax stamps and were sealed. Looking back I would have paid to have a mri done on them. You have to figure in the high stakes game that a crafty
person would have thought of this. My opinion is that knowing what I know now I would not purchase a unopened pack.<br /> By the way I paid about 300 per pack and why I had the intensions of not opening them ,well you know what happened. I did sometime later sell both packs as opened and was able to recoup about half my money, hell a better time than Vegas (in my opinion).

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

Chris: Did they have the right factory number, state and district? Was there overprinting on the boxes?

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

And you can open a Sweet Caporal pack, and get a T51 fish card... Gotta figure someone MRIed before letting the pack go, and knew what they were doing.

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Posted By: Chris

You gotta understand this was back in the day when these packs sold cheap compared to todays prices. As far as I can remember one pack had new york but I dont remember the dist. The other to be honest I don't recall, this is before I knew about what cards came with what dist and states. I'm not sure if the information was available then.

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

There have been many packs on eBay. But 99% of them you couldn't tell if they had a card in them or not, because they didn't have all the crucial info needed to determine whether or not they had a T206 card in them. 90% of the listings don't mention factory numbers. Some list the date of tax stamp, some don't. Some list the factory number, but don't mention the obvious overprinting. I havn't seen a true listing in 3 years where the info proved that there was a possible T206 card inside. If I saw one where the info was correct, I would bid crazy to get it.

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Posted By: DJ

Has anyone here ever MRI'd a pack?

Come on, fess up.

DJ