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06-16-2020, 08:37 PM
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1973 was the first card set I collected as a nine year old and I distinctly remember going to the local Ben Franklin in the fall and seeing the last series of cards tonnaged out on the floor with a clearance sticker on them. I want to say they were a nickle or a dime per pack and I convinced my dad to buy me a bucks worth. I was in heaven.
It doesn't surprise me that the high series from this set are not high priced as I remember seeing all of those unopened packs just sitting there back in the day. Last edited by whitehse; 06-16-2020 at 09:28 PM.
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ah, the memories
Thanks for posting that old thread Al. The '73s were all printed by the end of 1972, and the cards were all issued at once in parts of the country.
I see there's a youtube video that shows a "all in one series" box being opened, and it corroborates a couple of points I made in the old thread. At least I hope it does-- I didn't watch the whole video but only the first handful of packs being opened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbbb2iowzGo&t=409s As you can see, there do not appear to be any blue checklists inserted in the packs. They must have been mail order only for those of us who didn't get the cards in series. Also, cards from multiple if not every series are represented in each pack--the numbers are read aloud as the packs are opened and contents read. So the box doesn't simply contain packs from each series, which I always doubted anyway, but instead the entire set was packaged at once and inserted randomly in each pack, without regard to any "series". Quite simply, for some of us there was no reason to consider a high number to be any more difficult than any other card.
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06-17-2020, 07:02 AM
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I think I was a part of this break. This box had the "all series" wrapper and there was basically no hit.
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showth...highlight=1973 I submitted a few cards from this break to PSA and got like a 7 and an 8. Also got a wrapper during a random.
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