BBCE 1952 Topps Wax Pack "Brick"

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

So if you were a gambler the only path to making your money back would be to a pull a Pafko from every pack and a few PSA 10's. I often look at the equity of opening packs and boxes, and even as prices get crazy, if you break it down often it's around break-even. This one not so much.

[swarmee]

This one is a luxury item not intended to be broken up; would you break up a diamond tennis bracelet into smaller pieces? Definitely no money in breaking it due to the heavy likelihood of way off-centered cards.

[maniac_73]

Can never do unopened packs. Even if I had the money I could not resist the temptation to open them lol

[MotherLodeT205]

To buy that that lot I would have to install a security system in my home for that piece alone. High or low number multiple packs from 1952 Topps is a huge find could be said a holy grail of sports wax pack finds.

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Jeremy A. Rich

[JollyElm]

Maybe it's time for Robert Ballard to take his fleet of submersibles and search for the 'wreck' of all the boxes of '52 Topps high numbers dumped into the Atlantic. Perhaps cellophaned bricks are patiently waiting beneath the waves.

[jsanz]

The story goes that Sy Berger was on the barge to personally see the cases dumped into the ocean. I bet if he wasn't on that barge to over see it those cases would have made it back into circulation and 1952 Topps high numbers would not be so rare.

In other words barge company takes the money, tell you I am dumping your cards in the ocean, never dump your cards in the ocean, try to resell the cards and make even more money. I guess the cards had no street value back then. Oh well, that didn't happen but it's fun to think of "what ifs".

[toppcat]

And i'll bet that Topps ended up having Card Collectors Company sell off most of the remaining high numbers and create some spurious upwelling in the pricing of same in the 60's by concocting a story they were dumped at sea.

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Perhaps cellophaned bricks are patiently waiting beneath the waves.

Let's get rid of the and pretend this is an actual genuine real fact. If there really were cellophaned packs of cards that have been sitting underwater for almost 60 years, would they be salvageable?

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

If there really were cellophaned packs of cards that have been sitting underwater for almost 60 years, would they be salvageable?

Too late. Al Rosen already got to them.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

Let's get rid of the and pretend this is an actual genuine real fact. If there really were cellophaned packs of cards that have been sitting underwater for almost 60 years, would they be salvageable?

Not in salt water, they would be gone pretty quickly.