Oldest packs you've opened?

[JasonL]

What is the oldest pack of cards that you have opened?
Fun?
disappointing?
I'm getting the itch to open some packs and can't decide what year to select...also worried about fraudulent sellers...so let's hear some stories to tide me over and get me through the urge today!

[Chris-Counts]

When I was about 14, in the mid 1970s, I picked up an unopened box of 1957 Topps football from a local card dealer. It simply wasn't considered something with much value at the time. I doubt I paid $20 for it. I happily ripped those packs open in about five minutes. Now if I had just saved those mint Unitas, Starr and Hornung rookies ...

[Beatles Guy]

1979 Topps. Of course you always go into it hoping for the big rookie and almost always come up short. I pulled some decent stuff, but not the Ozzie. I have pulled some decent rookie from early 80's packs though.

[ALR-bishop]

I have a Topps pack run, but have not opened one recently, new or old. I am an old guy ( DOB 1950), and still remember opening packs beginning in 1956 through 1962. After that I started buying my cards in series as they were issued from The Card Collector's Company in NY ( I still have one of their catalogs from 1967). It may not have been as fun as packs, but I can remember the excitement of waiting for those packages of cards to arrive over the summer

[JasonL]

What would be the oldest pack you would dare open if you had it in your hands today???

vs. decide that you just can't do it, and that you must hold or re-sell as unopened??

I am going to on record and say that I would probably have trouble opening any big-rookie year, like 1965, 1957, and 1955, or 1954. So...I will say 1956.

[ALR-bishop]

I could not bring myself to open or sell any of my older packs. My wife can decide after I am dead. ( as long as she does not sell them to a guy with crisp $ 100 bills) But, if I were going to open one, it would be 1952, since although expensive, it would be easier to replace