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Marc S.<<Someone on E-bay keeps auctioning Topps Rack Packs from the 1950's- They have a Santa Claus on the top of them. I look at those and think, How did any kid who got one of those for Christmas NOT rip it open?!>>
Bruce:
Just so you know, Topps never produced those Rack Packs. Most of those rack packs were produced in the 1960s and 1970s -- and the cards inside them are typically EX/MT at best. A distributor took tons of excess Topps cards (I think he received them from Topps), and made the Christmas rack packs. Someone on another board had an actual date that some of these were released -- but more than anything, a hoard of this crap was discovered in a warehouse about two years ago, and they have been infiltrating there way into the lower echelons of hobby circles.