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Cards and other memorabilia...

Elliotlaker

Elliotlaker

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Sitting at Timmy's this morning and this fella who knows that I collect stuff brought in unopened packs of cards dating back 30-40 years. I also have unopened packs of 1993 O'Peechee cards.

Years ago, I purchased a signed sweater with Guy Lapointe, Guy Lafleur, Serge Savard. I also have a few signed cards, nothing special. How about you?
 
I collected in the worst time in history. From like 1990 to 2000. I have a few pretty good cards but mostly a ton of garbage.
 
I have a red Forum seat with autographs from Lafleur, Shutt, Cournoyer, Lapointe, Dickie Moore, and Dick Irvin.
I also have autographed photos of Lafleur, Beliveau, and Elmer Lach (used to have one of the Rocket but I sold it) a puck autographed by Henri Richard, a framed Lafleur jersey, a framed Team Canada 76 Bobby Orr signed jersey, autographed Beliveau 1964 Parkhurst card, autographed Gordie Howe 1964 Parkhurst card. Autographed photo of Gordie Howe that I got as a gift for my dad which I got back when he passed away. Framed photo of the Forum closing ceremony, humongous framed photo of the Rocket surrounded by team photos of the 5 straight Cup winning teams from 56-60. Embroidered mini Cup banners that came out about 20-25 years ago (Upper Deck?) that I have along the top of the wall in my spare room full of memorabilia, all 24 of them. Then, of course, there are the jerseys. Sooo many jerseys. Cournoyer home white with 1976 Olympics patches on the shoulders like they wore for the New Years Eve game in 75, Gainey red jersey, Henri Richard vintage red jersey, Koivu white jersey, Kovalev retro 1946 jersey, Robinson red jersey, one of the red centennial jerseys (the one with the CA logo) and one of the current red jerseys, not yet customized.

That about covers the hockey stuff. I also have baseballs autographed by Gary Carter and Steve Rogers, a framed photo of Dennis Martinez pitching at Dodger Stadium during his no-hitter, autographed, plus an autographed photo of Larry Walker. I have a powder blue Gary Carter Expos jersey with a 1976 Olympics patch, another Carter jersey, the 2002 gray road jersey with Montreal across the chest, a replica Jackie Robinson Montreal Royals road jersey. Oh, and an official National League baseball, stamped with league president A. Bartlett Giamatti's signature, a foul ball that I caught off the bat of Tony Gwynne during a Padres-Expos game at the Big O.

I also have a replica 70's Alouettes jersey signed by Gord Judges, with whom I had a couple of beers during Grey Cup week back in 2007.
 
I have some opeechee cards from the 70’s including a Guy Lafleaur ‘In Action’ card a Larry Robinson card from 79 and a “Stanley Cup Winners” card. They were from my first ever hockey card pack.

All are dog eared and messed up.

All are treasures beyond any monetary value.

I have signed 8 by 10’ from Guy and Beliveau.

I also have a Carbo card with stats on it from the Vee’s.
 
I had a Wayne Gretzky rookie card when I was a kid too. Sadly, I thought Wayne was rad. Then then I figured that the raddest thing I could do with her Wayne Gretzky card would be to use it to make my bicycle sound like a motorcycle and it was clothes pinned to the back triangle of my bike and was subjected to 1 million different beatings from spokes. .
 
I "collected" as a kid too... very early '80s up to the late '80s. Might have had some Gretzky rookies, definitely would have had all the rookies from the decade. We would play "topsies" with all our cards though. That's where you'd line cards up against the wall and try to knock them down by throwing other cards at them in order to win all the cards. Just totally destroyed Roy, Mario, Bourque, Yzerman etc. Probably dozens of each of them.
 
Habspatrol said:
I collected in the worst time in history. From like 1990 to 2000. I have a few pretty good cards but mostly a ton of garbage.
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Same thing. I have a bunch of Jagr and Brodeur rookies worth like $2. I have some early Gretzky and Lemieux cards (not the rookies) but they were all "well-loved".

I did collect the complete Upper Deck Canadiens centennial set when it came out, I like flipping through the album occasionally.
 
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Hoiles said:
Same thing. I have a bunch of Jagr and Brodeur rookies worth like $2. I have some early Gretzky and Lemieux cards (not the rookies) but they were all "well-loved".

I did collect the complete Upper Deck centennial set when it came out, I like flipping through the album occasionally.
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I do have one Roy and one Mario rookie that I bought later on.
 
I have a few bricks and a red seat from the forum

Sold about 3/4 of my cards to a USA vendor at a card show for a very nice haul

Have a ton of autographs and pictures with most of the Hab greats with a cup with a few of them

Havent bought cards in 15 years , the hobby is too expensive and overloaded with options

Blessed to be able to meet the truly elite of Habs history including Dick Irvin and Gallivin
 
I have (or had; not sure if I've still got them after all the moving I've done over the course of 50 years) a couple of Lafleur rookie cards, among many other gems but none of them were kept pristine because that wasn't a thing when I was a kid. Mine were bundled with elastic bands and in the schoolyard we would play this game where you'd prop up a row of about 6 cards against the wall then flick other cards at them trying to knock them down.

All my Leafs player cards, from Mike Pelyck to Errol Thompson to Denis Dupere and his handlebar moustache, wound up in the spokes of my bike where they belonged.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I have (or had; not sure if I've still got them after all the moving I've done over the course of 50 years) a couple of Lafleur rookie cards, among many other gems but none of them were kept pristine because that wasn't a thing when I was a kid. Mine were bundled with elastic bands and in the schoolyard we would play this game where you'd prop up a row of about 6 cards against the wall then flick other cards at them trying to knock them down.

All my Leafs player cards, from Mike Pelyck to Errol Thompson to Denis Dupere and his handlebar moustache, wound up in the spokes of my bike where they belonged.
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My cards were pristine , still have plenty of rookie cards

Back then $ 50 at a show got you 2 bags of stuff

Now your lucky to get 3 cards and a pizza slice

Dealers still have tons of old stuff in sealed boxes

The autographs at card shows is crazy , the last one in Toronto had Tyson charging $ 400 and the lineup was long .

One older dude had a replica cup with about 200 autographs , told me he dropped about 15k over 3 decades
 
GEEMAN said:
My cards were pristine , still have plenty of rookie cards

Back then $ 50 at a show got you 2 bags of stuff

Now your lucky to get 3 cards and a pizza slice

Dealers still have tons of old stuff in sealed boxes

The autographs at card shows is crazy , the last one in Toronto had Tyson charging $ 400 and the lineup was long .

One older dude had a replica cup with about 200 autographs , told me he dropped about 15k over 3 decades
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The only hockey player I can ever recall who was charging money (that I was willing to pay) was Lafleur. It cost me $20 to get my Forum seat signed by him. He had a booth set up at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver during an old-timer's game. He played the first period then spent the next two signing autographs at his booth. So-called "large items" such as my seat, were $20, smaller items were $5 or $10. Can't blame him since by then people were getting autographs for free and then selling them on ebay.

One of the ushers liked the Lafleur vintage Habs jersey I was wearing and let me into the arena before the gates opened to the public so that I could get Steve Shutt's autograph. He was just standing around sipping coffee so I had a nice brief chat with him and got his autograph. Didn't charge me a penny.

When I met Howe at a memorabilia show in Pickering back in 91, he and his wife Colleen were at a booth. I bought an 8x10 glossy for my dad that he signed and personalized but he signed the 64 Parkhurst card I had for free. He was wearing a button on his shirt that said "I'm Marty Howe's Dad".

I met Beliveau at the same show. He was just wandering around and signed my 64 Parkhurst card for free and chatted. Bobby Hull was also there but I didn't have any Hull memorabilia and wasn't interested in hearing any of his bullshit. My aunt and uncle in Vancouver were friends and neighbors with Hull's ex-wife so I was already aware that he was a piece of shit.
 
Just looked in the old box. Not much there. About 5 years ago, wife, with my permission, took some stuff over to the rink to some sort of collectors event. It included a handful of old cards from about 1962 that werre still glue pasted onto a page in a scrapbook, a set of black and white cards of players on 5 of the 6 teams in 1965-66 (the 9 year old me didn't order the Leafs) that were in decent shape as they were pasted into an album of sorts you got from Coca-cola by collecting something, an autographed picture of Ken Wharrem (Chicago) from about the same time, and some 1960s CFL cards that came from the back of cereal boxes. The guy gave her about $200, which was fine with me, though I have no idea of the true value. I was surprised to be honest. I still have two scrapbooks containing complete daily newspaper clippings from the 67-68 and 68-69 seasons-the collector didn't want them.

I, like some of you here too, had probably hundreds of cards in "used" condition that somehow vanished decades ago.

But my greatest treasure, which no way I would have parted with, is an old polaroid photo taken in my neighbour's house in central NL in 1968. An 12 year old me, standing, with Beliveau's hand on my shoulder. (I've told the story here before of course-it was the days when players did good will tours for Molson. My neighbour was a Molson rep. ) I've kept it inside a book all those years, so its in pretty good shape.
 
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