Oldest packs you've opened?

[thekingofclout]

I have 5 or 6 slabbed 1962 Topps Baseball Packs and I've been considering maybe cracking one at Christmas...

Not this one as I'll leave the Mantle/Mays card be.
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But maybe this puppy. Series 1...
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[GrayGhost]

My friend at the time, Brian, and I used to run a small show in Meriden CT. We had a Monday Night show years back, and there had just been a "find" of several 1962 and 1963 wax boxes by a dealer/electrician. He sold a box to another dealer and as a "highlight" to our show, a 1962 pack was opened in front of everyone there. What a moment. A Gorgeous Brock Rookie came out of that pack I recall, and four commons. Was exciting, almost like when Mark Murphy used to videotape guys opening 86 fleer Basketball packs at the Westchester Shows. Ah, the days...

[Rich Klein]

I opened some of the 1960 Topps packs in Papa John Broggi's store and actually pulled two Mantle cards. NOW, if I could have actually KEPT what I opened instead of having to give them to John, that would have been a great find.

I also opened some of the 1955 Bowman packs from the same find at the AC National. Like I have said; nine cards in the packs; and EVERYONE was a different size

Rich

[whycough]

When I was 8, I opened a few 1953 Topps. The following year I was fully into this fun behavior. Now, I would love to open a '52 Topps, 5th Series. Anyone with a report on doing this? And I don't mean when they just came out.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by whycough

When I was 8, I opened a few 1953 Topps. The following year I was fully into this fun behavior. Now, I would love to open a '52 Topps, 5th Series. Anyone with a report on doing this? And I don't mean when they just came out.

The last time I saw a '52 Topps high number pack for sale I actually kicked around the idea, but I couldn't convince myself to pay that much for a pack without knowing what was in it and at the same time I couldn't risk spending that much to possibly get a pack of off center or wax/gum stained commons.

[D. Bergin]

Back in the late 80's I had several boxes of 1961 Nu-Card Football and opened a bunch of them. There must be a ton of them out there because I see they still don't go for very much.

Also had lots of 70' and 71' Football Cello.

I always opened more then I should when I did have nice unopened. I couldn't help myself............then when stuff started to get out of control and older packs became worth more then you could possibly get out of them except in extreme exceptions, I stayed away from them altogether. Never was a big gambler.

[GrayGhost]

I loved ripping open packs, and losing money..haha. Tho this isnt really, "old packs" I recall when I got back into the hobby in 1984, when I met a guy named Don, who was into the hobby. We went to a dept store in bloomfield and they had packs for 25cents of Topps. We thought they were 83s, w our limited knowledge then. They were 80s, and I recall we bought like all hundred of em, and pulled many Hendersons/ryans, etc. Fun times.

I guess thinking back the oldest pack ever was a 51 Redback. Got a Duke Snider out of it, and paid like 25.00 for the pack, back in the later 80s.

Hey Jimmy, if you open one of those 62s, you should do a live opening party on the net, and post one card and put a scan up at a time. Id tune in for sure.