Desert Shield Packs

[Zach Wheat]

I was a little surprised at the ending price of $7,200 (with juice) at the recent REA Auction and $6,845 @ SCP for the latest unopened boxes of Desert Shield packs. Both boxes were sealed and certified by BBCE. You used to be able to buy individual packs for $150 as recent as a few months ago.

I know the availability of packs have been drying up.....but these prices seem a little high. Any other opinions/comments?


Z Wheat

[yankeeno7]

I thought BBCE didnt authenticate Desert Shield boxes because there was no way to prove they are in fact Desert Shield unless you open them.

[ALR-bishop]

I have a set of of the DS cards and 2 packs I bought from them. I do not know how you can tell without opening them, so have no idea if they really have DS cards in them, and never will

[Zach Wheat]

I don't know exactly how BBCE authenticates everything but I know they use a mix of provenance, testing a sample pack as well as using the black light method covered in earlier Desert Shield posts. I know Steve is aware of using this method for authentication as of late 2014. On CU, they also mentioned using a stud finder to detect the foil. I have yet to try that technique.

Re: blacklights, if you shine a blacklight on the back of the pack in a darkened room, you should see the "hot orangeish" border flourescing. You can see this through the wrapper. Regular issue 1991 Topps cards may or may not also flouresce - but all DS cards should flouresce. Previously we found only a small percentage (maybe 0.2%) that didn't....Joe 4Reals posted a great image of the cards flourescing under a black light in that post.

Z Wheat

[ALR-bishop]

In the old days we would never have stood for cards fluorescing themselves

[7nohitter]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

In the old days we would never have stood for cards fluorescing themselves

THAT was funny!