How did you build your vintage card collection? Did you buy packs and build sets? Most youngsters that grew up before the new millennium remember buying packs, chewing the gum (yes, they put gum in the packs with the cards) and trading with their friends. There wasn’t an Internet or eBay or even that many card shows or conventions. Recently, we were contacted by a gentleman who found us through our JustCollect.com website on the Internet. He was interested in selling his 1958 Topps Baseball Collection to us and how he assembled his
We get a lot of inquiries from people interested in selling or finding the value of their collection. Many collections that you see on our website tend to be the ones with valuable, vintage cards. While those are insightful to clients who may possess some of these cards, there may be some that are considering selling their collection, look at our website, see a collection like the Play Ball, Cross Continental or Niagara Falls, and wonder if their cards would be of any interest to us because they may fear their collection is
Raccoons? Weren’t those the same pesky varmints that Jed Clampett was shooting at in The Beverly Hillbillies when he missed and oil came up from the ground making him and his family millionaires? Well, Rafael Torres, a 34 year old Jersey City, New Jersey resident, was recently trying to figure a way to rid his home of a family of raccoons that had apparently set up home in a crawl space in his apartment. During the process of investigating, his cell phone fell out of his pocket and disappeared into a small opening and slid behind a wall in his
Pack Fresh Collection has 2 Nolan Ryan Rookies & More! The year is 1968. A transistor radio propped in an open 3rd floor window blares out “I Second That Emotion,” by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Another radio, just a few windows over, offers the staccatic intro to The Rolling Stones’ newest single, “Jumping Jack Flash.” At ground level, on a small stoop, two teenagers are listening to Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer calling play-by-play of the New York Yankees on WWHN. Up the street, several kids are finishing up a game of stickball and figuring out how to while
As you know, we attended the National two weeks ago, and it was a great success. Not only was it great for business, but we were able to meet a lot of you there, where we shared stories, got feedback, and even bought some collections – which was nice. Once we got settled back in, we will do a full review of how the National went, along with some of our exciting purchases. But for now, we wanted to share this story with you, which happened right before we left for Chicago! For those of you who are not familiar