The corner folds seem ok, they were sometimes sloppy, and any decent resealer uses the folds the factory made.
The mismatch of the packs is concerning, but wax could be sequenced just like racks and cellos. Once you know the sequence the better cards will usually be in the same approximate place in a box. So someone might pick out say every pack from the top of the left stack, third one down in the second stack and last one in the right stack. All the leftovers would get added to other boxes.
Sometimes cards can be identified through the wrapper, and that's another way of picking through them.
What is more concerning to me is the wrinkling on the lower left pack in the back photo. The factory wrap while sloppy is usually pretty smooth. That wrinkled reflection might be from melted wax meaning that one at least had been ironed. (Or stored poorly, hard to tell from a photo, especially that one. )
I'd go on the assumption that the lot had at the least been picked over by someone who knew the sequence or opened enough to figure it out. I'd assume that there would be none of the major rookies, and none of whoever was "hot" at the time it was done.
The problem with unopened stuff is that it sells for more than the cards inside are usually worth. And with big rookies in a set, that difference gets bigger. Otherwise, that's a nice batch of well preserved 75s with some better cards included.
The best ones to find are the boxes of cello packs saved unopened by sequencers. They look played with, and are. But if the big names are inside packs with a common on top and the box has several of them.....$$$ I got one at a flea market once. No stars showing, but loaded when I opened it.
Steve B
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