Here's a really cool item that I ran across in Mastro's March 2000 catalog; a 66-card uncut sheet of 1959 Topps Baseball cards that includes Hank Aaron, Orlando Cepeda, Frank and Brooks Robinson, White Ford, and Don Drysdale!
In August 2003, Mastro sold a treasure trove from the Exhibit Supply Co. archives: 60 mostly 8" x 10" photos used to produce the iconic football Exhibits. Featuring legends like Otto Graham, Marion Motley, and Y.A. Tittle, plus production notes and proof sheets, it’s a remarkable piece of football and hobby history.
The 1963 Milwaukee Sausage Co. Seattle Rainiers set includes 11 unnumbered, 4 1/4'' square cards cut from retail packaging. Blue tinted with a bit of red and yellow, the set features players like Billy Macleod and several future MLB players. Most cards show stains, evidence of their original purpose.
You can grab a 1990 Score baseball factory set for under $10, but the 25-card McDonald's version? With only 4,000 reportedly made (vs. who knows how many millions of base cards), it commands 40x the price!
The Jan '97 issue of Sports Card Trader highlighted 3 significant hobby events: The '96 East Coast National, the Superior Sportscards Auction, where Fogel bought his '52 Topps PSA 10 Mantle for $121k, and the Sept 21st sale of the Greztky/McNall T206 Wagner for $640k.
Mario Alejandro introduced me to this card in his tweet from March 2024, and then I ran across the following picture of it in Issue 15 (Summer 1993) of Topps Magazine.
It may be because I recently published The Uncut Sheet Archive, but I've been seeing a lot of awesome uncut sheets lately while perusing old catalogs lately, like this 1962 Topps uncut proof!
The 1967 Topps Stand-Ups are one of the scarcest Topps test issues, though Topps likely intended them as a 1968 release. Anyway, I ran across a December 2004 auction that featured both the Mickey Mantle proof and die-cut versions!
In the spring 1983 issue of Baseball Cards Magazine, Big League Collectibles advertised their 1982/83 Diamond Classics and 1983 Original All Stars collector sets, which were limited to 10,000 sets.
