World Wide Gum Cards

[parkplace33]

Because for most card series, Canadian issues are less valuable than their US counterparts.

[packs]

One of my favorite cards in my collection. It cost me $515 at the time of purchase, which was probably about half of the Goudey cost at the time:

[robw1959]

Five hundred bucks! Dang . . . that had to be quite some time ago.

[robw1959]

Originally Posted by parkplace33

Because for most card series, Canadian issues are less valuable than their US counterparts.

Really??? I have never heard that before. In fact, I can think of a counter-example: OPC cards. Don't vintage OPC cards hold their own very well versus Topps?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by robw1959

Really??? I have never heard that before. In fact, I can think of a counter-example: OPC cards. Don't vintage OPC cards hold their own very well versus Topps?

The OPC Gretzky is much pricier than the Topps. Again, I think it's because 33 Goudey is such an iconic set, hobby top 3 or so.

[packs]

Looks like PSA lists 72 of the yellow and SGC has graded 34. Even if they were all unique that's surprisingly low population.

[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by robw1959

Really??? I have never heard that before. In fact, I can think of a counter-example: OPC cards. Don't vintage OPC cards hold their own very well versus Topps?

Again, some do. But most do not.

[samosa4u]

Just a few things I wanna' point out here:

- According to my research, World Wide Gum Co. and Goudey were the same company. We can't treat them like two separate entities. In other words, this was not like a Topps / O-Pee-Chee kinda' relationship.

- Like Peter said, the price gap has been closing over the years. The reason for this is obvious: people got priced-out of the Goudey market and started looking for cheaper alternatives.

- I don't think that Americans are bothered by the French backs. Joe DiMaggio's two best cards (36' WWG and 37' O-Pee-Chee) are CDN issues with French backs.