The greatest collection of 80-90s basketball strolled into my shop over the weekend

armyml · 05-05-2021, 11:33 AM

My buddy and I opened a physical location in Indiana after doing the online thing for 6 months or so. We have been open a month but we get our fair share of people looking to sell their cards. Always the same story most of the time. Junk wax. Well this time a gentleman in his 60's strolls in and starts asking questions.
"Well I collected mid 80s-late 2000s, I ripped wax chasing inserts and rare pull cards." So I ask him which sport, expecting baseball. He says basketball and my ears up.
Sure enough he has brought them with in his truck, so after a few trips in and out, one box, and about 5 completely full binders later I get a feel for what this guy has. Long story short...a complete gold mine and a collectors dream.
-Jordans...man so many Jordans. BESIDES an entirely full binder of MINT condition base cards, he has the usual suspect high end inserts. BMOC Z-Peat, Rave Review, Bowmans refractors, Triumvirate, 2 scoring kings, exclamation points w/sleeve, beam teams, fleer sticker etc etc. The thing is that as soon as he ripped back in the day he would put the cards into screw downs and protect the screw downs so these cards are all IMMACULATE. I couldn't believe the condition of these cards for the years he has.

20210501_120544 by mark liddell, on Flickr

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20210501_112702 by mark liddell, on Flickr
-Insert SETS. Dude has most of the amazing insert sets from the 90s and multiples of. Didnt get a lot of good pictures but I can if people are interested. I just took a few pics.

20210501_174601 by mark liddell, on Flickr

20210501_174609 by mark liddell, on Flickr

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-Shaq Rookies. Pages and pages of mint condition Shaq Rookies

20210501_180107 by mark liddell, on Flickr

20210501_180134 by mark liddell, on Flickr

20210501_180229 by mark liddell, on Flickr

20210501_180249 by mark liddell, on Flickr

20210501_180149 by mark liddell, on Flickr

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20210501_180130 by mark liddell, on Flickr
-Just epic 90s and 2000s cards. Didnt get pics but I saw a Kobe Topps Chrome Rookie, a FEW Lebron rookies but nothing major, serial numbered Tmacs, Vinces, Penny Hardaway...you name it.

20210501_174956 by mark liddell, on Flickr

Guy is looking to sell and have a nice retirement. Our shop is going to help him grade the heavy hitters, and move the lower/mid tier cards raw to fund the grading costs on the big boys. Basically, if there are some super collectors here looking for some rare 90s cards in good condition let me know who you collect and I can check to see if the guy has the cards and wants to move them. It won't happen instantly since the guy is out at the shop in Indiana. My buddy lives out there so he is local, but I am out in Chicago. I can put a list together of wants and send it off and maybe here somethin back that week. Either way the cards will move, but I wanted to give some of the collectors a shot at them here before we sell locally and on Ebay. Such a beautiful collection, I wish I could afford to buy it all for myself. We are going to grade the BMOC first and moving it out of a screwdown into a top loader was so nerve wracking.

05-05-2021, 11:33 AM	#1
armyml Member Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Chicago/Warsaw Indiana Posts: 1,155 nicodemuscards	The greatest collection of 80-90s basketball strolled into my shop over the weekend My buddy and I opened a physical location in Indiana after doing the online thing for 6 months or so. We have been open a month but we get our fair share of people looking to sell their cards. Always the same story most of the time. Junk wax. Well this time a gentleman in his 60's strolls in and starts asking questions. "Well I collected mid 80s-late 2000s, I ripped wax chasing inserts and rare pull cards." So I ask him which sport, expecting baseball. He says basketball and my ears up. Sure enough he has brought them with in his truck, so after a few trips in and out, one box, and about 5 completely full binders later I get a feel for what this guy has. Long story short...a complete gold mine and a collectors dream. -Jordans...man so many Jordans. BESIDES an entirely full binder of MINT condition base cards, he has the usual suspect high end inserts. BMOC Z-Peat, Rave Review, Bowmans refractors, Triumvirate, 2 scoring kings, exclamation points w/sleeve, beam teams, fleer sticker etc etc. The thing is that as soon as he ripped back in the day he would put the cards into screw downs and protect the screw downs so these cards are all IMMACULATE. I couldn't believe the condition of these cards for the years he has. 20210501_120544 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_120551 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_114239 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_112702 by mark liddell, on Flickr -Insert SETS. Dude has most of the amazing insert sets from the 90s and multiples of. Didnt get a lot of good pictures but I can if people are interested. I just took a few pics. 20210501_174601 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_174609 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_174508 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_174513 by mark liddell, on Flickr -Shaq Rookies. Pages and pages of mint condition Shaq Rookies 20210501_180107 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_180134 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_180229 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_180249 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_180149 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_180058 by mark liddell, on Flickr 20210501_180130 by mark liddell, on Flickr -Just epic 90s and 2000s cards. Didnt get pics but I saw a Kobe Topps Chrome Rookie, a FEW Lebron rookies but nothing major, serial numbered Tmacs, Vinces, Penny Hardaway...you name it. 20210501_174956 by mark liddell, on Flickr Guy is looking to sell and have a nice retirement. Our shop is going to help him grade the heavy hitters, and move the lower/mid tier cards raw to fund the grading costs on the big boys. Basically, if there are some super collectors here looking for some rare 90s cards in good condition let me know who you collect and I can check to see if the guy has the cards and wants to move them. It won't happen instantly since the guy is out at the shop in Indiana. My buddy lives out there so he is local, but I am out in Chicago. I can put a list together of wants and send it off and maybe here somethin back that week. Either way the cards will move, but I wanted to give some of the collectors a shot at them here before we sell locally and on Ebay. Such a beautiful collection, I wish I could afford to buy it all for myself. We are going to grade the BMOC first and moving it out of a screwdown into a top loader was so nerve wracking.