What's the oldest wax pack you've opened?

[T.S. OConnell]

Opened a flock of 1959 Topps Baseball in 1959, using my 25-cent per-week allowance entirely on same. For looking backwards, I opened a 1960 Topps Cello pack as a treat for my 50th birthday in 2000. I had purchased it from Mr. Mint and hung on to it for that particular occasion. It was Series II; best card I got was a Reds Team card.

[ClementeFanOh]

At the Atlanta National in 1992, I bought and opened a pack of 1955 Topps with a long time collecting friend. It was exhilarating. No Koufax or Roberto but still a bunch of fun. What a memory!

[rats60]

Opened a bunch of 51 Topps Red Backs. Bought a box and sold some of the packs and opened the rest. Also opened quite a few 1954 Bowman and 1955 Topps and Bowman packs from Rosen's Paris TN find.

[horzverti]

Originally Posted by T.S. OConnell

Opened a flock of 1959 Topps Baseball in 1959, using my 25-cent per-week allowance entirely on same. For looking backwards, I opened a 1960 Topps Cello pack as a treat for my 50th birthday in 2000. I had purchased it from Mr. Mint and hung on to it for that particular occasion. It was Series II; best card I got was a Reds Team card.

Awesome BDay present for yourself. I am not sure I would have the patience.

[CurtisFlood]

Originally Posted by T.S. OConnell

Opened a flock of 1959 Topps Baseball in 1959, using my 25-cent per-week allowance entirely on same. For looking backwards, I opened a 1960 Topps Cello pack as a treat for my 50th birthday in 2000. I had purchased it from Mr. Mint and hung on to it for that particular occasion. It was Series II; best card I got was a Reds Team card.

Hey TS, how is it going? Miss your writings. Will you be attending he National? Look me up at 701 if you do.

I opened a lot of 1961 Topps, but only opened a couple 1962 packs and thought they were really ugly and quit buying cards until 1987. The fact that they went from 5 cents a pack to 10 cents might have had something to do with that. A dime was hard to get hold of in those days!

[Exhibitman]

1970 Topps. Of course I was 5 years old at the time...

[ALR-bishop]

1957, unfortunately in that same year

[mikemb]

I opened a lot of 1961 Topps, but only opened a couple 1962 packs and thought they were really ugly and quit buying cards until 1987. The fact that they went from 5 cents a pack to 10 cents might have had something to do with that. A dime was hard to get hold of in those days![/QUOTE]

Kinda ironic you hated the 1962 Topps design so much you stopped buying cards and when you started back up, Topps "rewarded" you with a similar wood grain background!

I opened up a lot of 1951 Topps Red Backs around 1990.

Mike

[pokerplyr80]

I bought one of those boxes from target or walmart a couple of years ago that contains primarily a bunch of junk 80s and early 90s packs. I pulled a 75 topps pack, which was a rare bonus randomly included. It was fun to open but did not contain any of the key cards.

[Volod]

After some wretched struggling with my deteriorated memory cells, I believe the last pack of cards I opened was in 1954 - almost certainly Bowman, because that product was more plentiful in Mom&Pop stores in my small hometown than was Topps. I kind of gave up on card collecting that year because girls became more important for some reason, which I still cannot fathom. I recall being disappointed with the cards, as they were obviously not up to the quality of Bowman's efforts from previous years, so that only reinforced my hormone induced new attitude about hobby priorities.