1961 Bell Brand Dodgers #32 Sandy Koufax

Book Value
$ 250
Our Price
n/a
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1961 Bell Brand Dodgers #32 Sandy Koufax  cards value
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1934,1935,1936,1937 Diamond
Football Matchbooks

Vintage 1934 Diamond Matchbooks
Matchbook collecting was sweeping the nation back in the 1930's with most sports matchbooks issued by Diamond Match Company out of New York. The football matchbooks were printed over a period of several years in assortment of colors and included both professional and collegiate football players.

1930's matchbooks are huge bargains for collectors as their values are fractions of that of Goudey and other issues from the 1930's.

Diamond also produced several issues of Hockey and Baseball Matchbooks.

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1968 Baseball Marbles, Creative Creations


1968 Baseball Marble
These clear plastic 3/4" marbles contained paper inserts with the player's portrait on front and facsimile autograph on back.
Issued in collectible blister packs with 20 marbles. The blister packs measure 9-3/4" x 10-1/2". The marbles were sealed on front; the pack’s back featured a design with around 60 facsimile signatures. 1968 Baseball Marbles The package mentioned 24 series of 20 marbles each (480 total) but only 120 different marbles were actually created.

1968 Baseball Marble One of the more interesting collectibles from the late 1960's, they are still sought after by both team & player collectors.

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1993 Topps Finest Refractors
Checklist & Values


Topps went all in in 1993 with their most premium baseball card set to date, the famous 1993 Topps Finest set with RARE parallel issue REFRACTORS. With only 199 cards, 7 per team, the 'Finest' set only had room for the 'Finest' players !

Rare REFRACTORS were randomly placed in some packs. REFRACTORS looked exactly like regular cards unless you knew where AND how to look. Tilting a REFRACTOR in sunshine released a rainbow of colors, "refracting light" Topps scientists liked to say.

Current info is only 241 REFRACTORS were issued of each card making this parallel issue one of the scarcest. Collecting a complete set is made even more difficult by the hoarding of certain cards by collectors AND even major league baseball players !

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Baseball card collecting terms (part B)

Bazooka Bazooka Bubble Gum put baseball cards on the back of their boxes from 1959 thru 1971. Complete boxes and panels can get extremely costly. Most kids back then could not afford complete boxes of bubble gum at one making Bazooka cards quite scarce. I actually don't recall ever obtaining a Bazooka card directly from a box as a kid. Do you ???

Black Sox Scandal Name given to the the most famous scandal in baseball history after the 1919 Chicago White Sox versus the Cincinatti Reds World Series when 8 White Sox players were accused of throwing the series. Details have remained somewhat unclear. The players were acquitted of criminal charges but 8 players still received a lifetime ban from professional baseball including the All-Time great "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.

Blank-Back a card in which nothing is printed on the back. These cards are usually not in packs and are either "PROOF ISSUES" or were removed from the factory in some way.

Blanket a term used for collectibles in the 1910's made of fabric .

Border is the part of the card that surrounds the photo or image.

Bowman was a card manufacturer in the 1940's and 1950's that was bought out by Topps. In 1989 Topps started issuing cards using the Bowman brand.

Break a term used to indicate the opening of a set, pack, box or case.

Break Value is the total book value of each card added up individually. The break value of a set is usually way, way more than the value of the complete set.

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