A couple thoughts/questions about unopened wax.....

[Brads55]

In my Christmas Haul this year was a shoe box full of unopened wax packs. Nothing major as far as the years of the packs, however the thought of "Would these be worth something in 20 years as they would potentially then be considered vintage.?.?."

I'm in no means eager to bust these open as I currently have completed sets of all of these packs, but I'm excited on the idea of them becoming a "rarer" item over the years.

Here's a list of the packs.....

1987 Topps - 3 Packs

1988 Donruss - 5 Packs
1988 Fleer - 1 Pack
1988 Score - 1 Pack
1988 Topps - 2 Packs
1988 Topps Big - 1 Pack
1988 Topps Jumbo - 1 Pack
1988 Topps Major League Leaders - 1 Pack

1989 Bowman - 1 Pack
1989 Donruss - 3 Packs
1989 Fleer - 3 Packs
1989 Score - 2 Packs
1989 Topps - 5 Packs

1990 Donruss - 5 Packs
1990 Fleer - 6 Packs
1990 Score - 2 Packs
1990 Topps - 2 Packs
1990 Upper Deck - 7 Packs

1991 Donruss - 2 Packs
1991 Fleer - 1 Pack
1991 Leaf Series 1 - 1 Pack
1991 Score - 3 Packs
1991 Stadium Club Series 1 - 1 Pack
1991 Topps - 1 Pack
1991 Topps Jumbo - 1 Pack
1991 Ultra - 2 Packs
1991 Upper Deck - 5 Packs

1992 Stadium Club Series 1 - 1 Pack
1992 Topps - 1 Pack
1992 Topps OPeeChee - 1 Pack
1992 Upper Deck High Series - 1 Pack

1993 Stadium Club Series 2 - 1 Pack
1993 Topps Series 2 - 1 Pack

I've accumulated some other various non-sport sealed packs over the years too....

1975 Topps - Good Times - 1 Pack
1976 Topps - Happy Days - 1 Pack
1978 Topps - Jaws 2 - 1 Pack
1979 Topps - Alien - 1 Pack
1982 Topps - Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark - 2 Packs
1983 Topps - Jaws 3D - 1 Pack
1984 Topps - Indiana Jones - 1 Pack
1985 Topps - Rambo - 1 Pack

[Mister_Ed]

the non sport stuff probably has more appeal than the sports stuff- ive seen most of those packs at shows for .25 each or so. i guess they will technically only get harder to find, but if no one is looking for them...

[Brads55]

Yeah kinda what I was thinkin, thanks for the input Ed.

[ranbethscards]

bust 'em!.....I can't stand to have unopen packs or boxes laying around!
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[key2win]

I agree with Randy.

[OriolesFan]

Between the late '80's through the mid '90's there was definitely over production. There are very few really valuable cards to be found in the base products (Topps,Fleer,Donruss,Score, & Bowman especially). I haven't been to a card show lately. However, the last time I went they were selling boxes of this stuff, unopened, for between $5 to $10 a box.