What's the oldest wax pack you've opened?
 

I freely admit I stole this thread idea from the football section. Now that we got that out of the way, I'll start. I opened 1968 wax packs in the year of issue. :D I must have put them in the spokes of my bike, because they're long gone. How about you?

OK, I'll bite.
I just re-entered the hobby roughly 2 1/2 years ago after about a 30 year layoff.
I had last collected with any regularity in the early-mid '80s.

I do remember opening a bunch of early 80's stuff, and even though its the far reaches of my memory, I do remember opening some '78s -'79s as well.
I know we would occasionally pick up some unopened stuff back then from past years, but it was never too far back.
Oddly enough, my father and a couple others had a shop back then in the early 80's, and we had some other unopened stuff here and there back then also.
One thing I remember opening a ton of, was the 1981 Donruss PGA Tour golf cards.
I distinctly remember we must have had nearly 60-70 unopened boxes of that stuff at one time.
Wish we still had it!!! We could barely give it away back then.

So I'm going to say for baseball, probably 1978-1979.
Golf, 1981 Donruss.
Star Wars, 1977.
Football, we opened very little of it, but I guess we opened a little bit in the early '80s as well.


Certainly not as far back as some of you here I'm sure, but its still interesting when I look back on it.

:D

1959 cello pack and it was loaded (3-4 years ago). non sport i have opened a few 1953 bowman non sport packs.

This is good news in my opinion, in that the pack was "legitimate". (and not one of those "holiday repacks" scam, also it wasn't opened then resealed)


But now you got me to wondering, what cards did you get, that made it "loaded"....?
Inquiring collectors want to know. :D

I doubt you wrote down the exact contents of that pack, but if you did, or could work from memory I'd certainly like to know what you pulled.

1951 Topps Red Back

1959 and 1960 Topps Baseball
 

Opened a flock of 1959 Topps Baseball in 1959, using my 25-cent per-week allowance entirely on same. For looking backwards, I opened a 1960 Topps Cello pack as a treat for my 50th birthday in 2000. I had purchased it from Mr. Mint and hung on to it for that particular occasion. It was Series II; best card I got was a Reds Team card.

Oldest wax pack to open?
 

At the Atlanta National in 1992, I bought and opened a pack of 1955 Topps with a long time collecting friend. It was exhilarating. No Koufax or Roberto but still a bunch of fun. What a memory!

Opened a bunch of 51 Topps Red Backs. Bought a box and sold some of the packs and opened the rest. Also opened quite a few 1954 Bowman and 1955 Topps and Bowman packs from Rosen's Paris TN find.

Awesome BDay present for yourself. I am not sure I would have the patience.

What's the oldest wax pack you've opened?
 

Not sexy, but ‘86 Topps from my childhood. I was 9. Back then you could get cards at my local 7-11 or the Cashion’s Grocery Store in beautiful downtown Cornelius, NC. They were 35 cents a pack. Originals from my surviving childhood collection (including Reggie Jackson, Dale Murphy, and Pete Rose) are identified as such by the thumbtack holes in them which ones affixed the cards to the bulletin board in my childhood room.

When I was probably 25, I bought a couple of ‘86 Topps Wax boxes from the LCS just for shytes and giggles. It was fun for an hour or so to just rip wax and slowly go thru the cards, whose corners I never cared much about a couple decades earlier. I did have to shy away from the concrete gum, though.


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I think the packs I most vividly remember opening were the original "Black Bat" Batman cards. Something about the amazing artwork and the gum smell that permeated the cardboard was intoxicating to my young senses.

1974 Donruss Football Super Freaks. The stickers all went on my kindergarten lunchbox.

Hey TS, how is it going? Miss your writings. Will you be attending he National? Look me up at 701 if you do.

I opened a lot of 1961 Topps, but only opened a couple 1962 packs and thought they were really ugly and quit buying cards until 1987. The fact that they went from 5 cents a pack to 10 cents might have had something to do with that. A dime was hard to get hold of in those days!

1970 Topps. Of course I was 5 years old at the time...

1957, unfortunately in that same year

I opened a lot of 1961 Topps, but only opened a couple 1962 packs and thought they were really ugly and quit buying cards until 1987. The fact that they went from 5 cents a pack to 10 cents might have had something to do with that. A dime was hard to get hold of in those days![/QUOTE]

Kinda ironic you hated the 1962 Topps design so much you stopped buying cards and when you started back up, Topps "rewarded" you with a similar wood grain background!

I opened up a lot of 1951 Topps Red Backs around 1990.

Mike

I bought one of those boxes from target or walmart a couple of years ago that contains primarily a bunch of junk 80s and early 90s packs. I pulled a 75 topps pack, which was a rare bonus randomly included. It was fun to open but did not contain any of the key cards.

After some wretched struggling with my deteriorated memory cells, I believe the last pack of cards I opened was in 1954 - almost certainly Bowman, because that product was more plentiful in Mom&Pop stores in my small hometown than was Topps. I kind of gave up on card collecting that year because girls became more important for some reason, which I still cannot fathom. I recall being disappointed with the cards, as they were obviously not up to the quality of Bowman's efforts from previous years, so that only reinforced my hormone induced new attitude about hobby priorities.