[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

1. What made you interested in wrappers?
2. Do you have any you could share a photo or two of?

I first got the idea of collecting wrappers from a glossy page picturing a bunch of Topps Baseball wrappers in an early 1980's Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide by Dr. James Beckett.

Moreover I've been collecting Non-Sport cards at least as long as I've been collecting Baseball cards. And wrappers have been avidly pursued by many Non-Sport card collectors since the 1970's anyway. In fact the longest standing and best respected Non-Sport card magazine is called The Wrapper!

I still remember mentioning that I had a complete set of Civil War News cards to a collector I met at Comics Unlimited on Keewatin Avenue in Toronto back in 1984 or so. He immediately asked me whether I had a wrapper. And just by coincidence I happened to be in the same shop a year or two later when the same fellow was exulting about scoring a Civil War News wrapper which he was now going home to put with his set! (I have both the one cent and five cent Civil War News wrappers myself now.) Here though are some of my Baseball card wrappers from the 1950's:

1957



1958



1959



I also remember mentioning the CFL wrappers I had while I was talking on the phone to another avid CFL collector in Vancouver back in 1995 or so. I could almost see the penny drop in his mind right across the continent! And yes, within a few weeks he was negotiating to purchase my duplicate CFL wrappers.

It just seems natural to me now to go for the wrappers as well when I'm collecting a card set.

Of course I like unfolded display boxes too. Whether I can find let alone afford any of the Baseball ones is another question.