1952 Topps Hi # Empty Wax Case - $50K!

[sflayank]

hi # how do they know?
last time it sold was 2000 for $1000
Pandora's Box - 1952 Topps Shipping Case mastro may 2000

[steve B]

Does anyone else get turned off items when a seller gets an easily checked bit of information wrong?

They say 52 Topps was created by Sid Berger (Not Sy or Seymour as it should be)
To me that just makes anything else they might say suspect.

Steve B

[ALR-bishop]

Steve---I guess you are not a big Norm Crosby fan

[jeffshep]

That Mastro case had a 3-52 on the bottom, this one's a 6-52, so it seems possible it refers to the card series.

http://www.dacardworld.com/blog/dave...er-case-worth/

[savedfrommyspokes]

The 6-52 on the bottom of the box is likely this particular box's manufacture date (June of 1952) and was printed on there by the "D.L.& D. Container Corp" out of Brooklyn. It would appear that Topps purchased these "boxes" to put their product in from this container vendor out of Brooklyn. Since Topps used this box stamped 6-52, it is likely that the 6-52 case was indeed used to hold cards from a later series of the 52 set. The box stamped 3-52 would have been manufactured in March 1952.

Many boxes I use today have the month and year of manufacture stamped on the bottom by the producer also.

[sportscollector]

this item is worth couple hundred max in my opinion and that only if its really proven it was from the MR mint find

[sflayank]

shipping cases are very underpriced as a rule since in theory there is only 1 for every 24 boxes...but based on experience its more likely that only a few of each have been saved and are quite rare...a 52 case i would pay $2500 for in this condition....if there were as many collectors of the boxes and the case as there are of the cards..it probably would be more than 10k