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Wayne Gretzky rookie trading card sells for $465K breaking all-time record More: http://edmontonjournal.com/news/loc...-time-recordNot entirely on topic but wondering if maybe a longtime coin collector has a stash of pristine but forgotten hockey cards? I'd bet most of us were avid collectors of something in our younger days. For me it was the little cards that came with boxes of tea. Definitely not hockey cards. However I recall that boys used to rip and roll little pieces of their hockey cards up and then blow them out of straws, directed at us girls. Yuck, they'd get stuck in our hair. Wonder how many Getzky cards met their fate that way?
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Forum Dad
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That card is way over graded, the edges are chipped up and at least one corner shows some fuzz.
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Wayne Gretzky is a coin collector. He has the original "Lucky Loonie". Quote:
For me it was the little cards that came with boxes of tea I collect anything related to Red Rose Tea, including the blue and black backed Red Rose tea cards! |
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Agree with Bobby that pictured card is no where near Mint 10. Once again proof that a fool and their money...........
But those were the days, twenty bucks for an average WG rookie in the early 1980 s.
465000 US would buy one heck of a coin collection.
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I have been a collector most of my life, from coins as a pre-teen, to comics as a teen, to hockey cards as an older teen, back to coins.
My problem was that I sold my comics too early and bought too many proset hockey cards (que flushing noise now) I went into a comic store a few years ago and saw that comics I sold for a few dollars each now selling for $50+ for the common ones.
I am kicking myself for that brilliant idea.
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I collect anything related to Red Rose Tea, including the blue and black backed Red Rose tea cards!
That's really cool! My collection was in and around the early 60s. To my deep regret, when I finished high school and moved away from home they got left behind and later were nowhere to be found. Along with many years of snipping Garfield cartoons from the paper, then carefully pasting them in an album. Gone...oh well, I'm not left wondering about a Gretzky hockey card that today could be worth $465K. |
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Oh and back to the hockey cards, pinning them to the spokes of your bike.... or tossing them against the wall to see who could get closest.
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I never put them in my bicycle spokes or anything like that. We would stand a cucumber up and try to throw them into the vegetable like a ninja star. Quote:
My collection was in and around the early 60s. I was born mid 90s so I never seen the cards in their natural habitat. My mother told me her and her sister used to fight over who got the Red Rose tea figurine growing up in Cape Breton. She never remembered seeing the tea cards though. |
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Forum Dad
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Agree with Bobby that pictured card is no where near Mint 10. That card would be no more than an 8 in a Beckett slab. Here's a Beckett 9.5 in waaaaaaayyyyyy better shape than that one. You don't have to go any further than comparing the right edges.   |
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*sigh* had the whole o-pee-chee set back in the day.. we were moving... some guy said he'd buy hockey cards... my mother sold all mine for $9....
Ohh did I mention this card was signed... when I also met him Messier, Fuhr & and Coffee... all signed... all goners for $9....
I was out riding my bike that day.... it was a great day.. but not worth the trade if you ask me!
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Valued Member
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Hey Ace I'm with you on the bicycle spokes and tossing toward the wall for closeness and stand ups. Thanks for the memory it brought a smile to my face.
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@ AgCoinAu. That's one big If Only! Quote:
.... pinning them to the spokes of your bike....
Yes, we used wooden clothes-pins....I can still remember the flap flap flap flap flap sound. Edited by wildflowerAB
08/05/2016 5:18 pm
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I still have some from the 1973 NHL season. Mostly bought baseball cards though.
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The Becket is probably a sheeter, which PSA will not grade.(knowingly). The Gretzky rookie is NOT a rare card, but this is the only PSA 10. But that's 3 PSA graders' opinion. It's a 1/1, until the next one is graded, then you should see this value reduced. I've been out of the hobby for awhile, but an OPC PSA 9 used to be had for about $1000.
This card has transacted before and at much lower values. A more rationale value for this card would be way below $50,000 CAD. The highest graded 1966 Orr rookie went for about that about 5 years ago. I would rather have the Orr.
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Here's a Beckett 9.5 in waaaaaaayyyyyy better shape than that one. You don't have to go any further than comparing the right edges. Or the fact that it's visibly off center. This is why I abhor perfect "10" grades, just like perfect "MS-70" grades. |
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