1975 Topps - how to tell if they're resealed?

[Redscarsd58]

personally I wouldn't purchase any packs if seller wasn't willing to have BBCE review them and advise on authenticity. Not sure they will authenticate packs because of the PSA conflict, but as a full box he may.

if the seller won't comply there is your answer...
and why the dark pick of the backs? if/when i sell an unopened, i make every attempt at transparency to minimize doubt, assuming not authenticated.

[vintagetoppsguy]

I don't like the corner folds on the packs. I would stay away.

[Davino]

They feel resealed to me. Just my feelings.

[sbfinley]

Originally Posted by Redscarsd58

personally I wouldn't purchase any packs if seller wasn't willing to have BBCE review them and advise on authenticity. Not sure they will authenticate packs because of the PSA conflict, but as a full box he may.

if the seller won't comply there is your answer...
and why the dark pick of the backs? if/when i sell an unopened, i make every attempt at transparency to minimize doubt, assuming not authenticated.

I think Steve charges 5% of the estimated value of an item for him to authenticate and wrap unopened material that doesn't go through PSA. On this it would be what? $150-$200 with shipping and insurance to do so. That price might be a hurdle with the seller. I'm not big into unopened so I can't tell you one way or another, but I suggest checking in a CU forums as this seems to be their obsession.

[steve B]

The corner folds seem ok, they were sometimes sloppy, and any decent resealer uses the folds the factory made.

The mismatch of the packs is concerning, but wax could be sequenced just like racks and cellos. Once you know the sequence the better cards will usually be in the same approximate place in a box. So someone might pick out say every pack from the top of the left stack, third one down in the second stack and last one in the right stack. All the leftovers would get added to other boxes.
Sometimes cards can be identified through the wrapper, and that's another way of picking through them.

What is more concerning to me is the wrinkling on the lower left pack in the back photo. The factory wrap while sloppy is usually pretty smooth. That wrinkled reflection might be from melted wax meaning that one at least had been ironed. (Or stored poorly, hard to tell from a photo, especially that one. )

I'd go on the assumption that the lot had at the least been picked over by someone who knew the sequence or opened enough to figure it out. I'd assume that there would be none of the major rookies, and none of whoever was "hot" at the time it was done.

The problem with unopened stuff is that it sells for more than the cards inside are usually worth. And with big rookies in a set, that difference gets bigger. Otherwise, that's a nice batch of well preserved 75s with some better cards included.

The best ones to find are the boxes of cello packs saved unopened by sequencers. They look played with, and are. But if the big names are inside packs with a common on top and the box has several of them.....$$$ I got one at a flea market once. No stars showing, but loaded when I opened it.

Steve B