If you had told me a year ago, that I'd be spending my weekend opening old packs of cards with Pete Rose and Tony Dorsett, I would have told you that you're out of your mind. When I started Vintage Breaks last year, I was just trying to fill a void that the hobby had. Access to vintage unopened material is so hard to get. And even if you do, it becomes very expensive. So, if I was somehow able to give collectors access to this material
Beantown Basketball – The Star Company Collection Sometimes, it isn't about where you go, but just about being there when someone approaches you. Just Collect travels to several shows over the course of the calendar year and we are usually able to set up local appointments with collectors that are interested in receiving an appraisal and a purchase offer on their collection. We are able to buy many of these collections. On a recent trip to the Greater Boston Sports Collectors
Momma Wants a New Kitchen Would you sell your collection? Have you ever considered selling or apprasing your cards? What reasons might you consider for selling either a portion or the entirety of your collection? Perhaps you might sell to help fund a college education for yourself or a family member. What if you needed to purchase or make an expensive repair to a car. Maybe your collection is valuable enough to provide for a down payment on a new
Gadzooks, That's a Lot of Gum! Most readers are probably not old enough to have been walking through grocery stores in the 1960's and remember the boxes of Bazooka Bubble Gum that would be on the shelves begging young collectors to rummage through the display scouring the backs looking for their favorite players. Unlike the sealed Topps packs of the day which were a mystery until you opened the packs, the Bazooka Series displayed all
How Fun Would it Have Been? Imagine for a moment growing up in the New York metropolitan area in the 1950's and buying penny and nickel packs of baseball cards. How exciting it must've been leaving the corner store and thumbing through the packs for your favorite players from your favorites teams. Would you be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan searching for Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson or Pee Wee Reese? Maybe you would've been a fan of the New York Giants hoping to find