[campyfan39]

Super cool and how rare that a kid would keep the cards all this time and that his orients didn’t trash them like they did my Dad’s

Originally Posted by tedzan

OK guys

Here is the Quintessential wax-pack scenario......

A cool day in the Fall of 1952, a day I still remember quite well. My neighbor, Johnny, tells me that our neighborhood pharmacy has the TOPPS Hi# cards available.
By then, I had 270 cards (of the 310 issued). I was not interested in completing the set. I just wanted to have all the Yankees in it, especially Mickey Mantle.
I had a Quarter in my pocket, so we went to the pharmacy and I get 5 packs. The first 4 packs I opened had mostly Hi # commons and semi-stars.
I carefully opening the 5th pack, I slowly shuffled thru the cards, and lo and behold, the card in the middle was Mickey.

All five of these cards are the original cards out of that 5th wax-pack. This wrapper is not the original one.





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TED Z

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