FS: Added 15 Unopened Wax Packs (one hockey pack) in December

[Steve_NY]

My new wax packs that I have added to my inventory on Dec. 20, 2024 include:

1 and 2 – 1933 Sport Kings

3 – 1934 Goudey Baseball

4 – 1935 Goudey Baseball

5 – 1934-6 Diamond Stars Baseball – Blue wrapper

6 – 1934-6 Diamond Stars Baseball – Yellow/Red wrapper

7 – 1934 National Chicle Football

8 – 1939 Play Ball Baseball

9 and 10 – 1940 Play Ball Baseball

11 and 12 – 1941 Double Play Baseball

13 – 1950 Bowman Baseball 1 cent

14 – 1955 Topps Baseball 1 cent

15 – 1964/65 Topps Hockey

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If you would like to see my up to date for sale unopened wax packs list,
contact me at DynamicTwo@aol.com.

After a very successful National, I have stayed quiet for a while. It's likely I will not add any more packs to my inventory until April or May even though
I am in the process of buying them now.

Regards,

Steve
DynamicTwo@aol.com

[Balticfox]

Is the 1964-65 Topps Hockey pack from the first or second series?

I remember first series packs being sold for ten cents in my neck of the woods so those would be the ones with no price on the wrapper. Although the quantity of cards may have been increased from four to either five or six per pack (my memory is hazy on this detail), this made the 1964-65 Tall Boy issue relatively unpopular with kids. O-Pee-Chee therefore adjusted its pricing strategy for the second series. Second series packs would therefore be the ones marked 5 cents (if I'm correct in my thinking).

[Steve_NY]

I suspect it’s 1st series - I can send you a picture - but it has a 5 cent price on it.

[Steve_NY]

I just found a picture of a first series pack, and it matches the one I have.

[Balticfox]

Hmmmm. Well then either my memory is flawed or O-Pee-Chee was testing a ten cent price point in my neck of the woods in late 1964 to see how it impacted sales.

[Steve_NY]

I found this in an article from 2012 on the Tall-Boys:

The backs also indicate that these cards were printed in Canada. **** says this was the case for most Topps Hockey issues during this era. Topps had the license, but the cards were manufactured at the O-Pee-Chee plant in London, Ontario.

The Tall Boys were distributed in five-cent packs that housed four cards and a stick of gum. The wrappers trumpeted them as "GIANT SIZE N.H.L. HOCKEY PICTURE CARDS." Unopened packs are extremely rare and highly coveted. Dezoete estimates that an unopened pack would fetch more than $5,000.