1973 Topps Wax Pack: Authentic or resealed? Breaking a Vintage 1973 Topps Baseball Cards Pack

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[gabrielhowell]

One thing I like to do is to smell the pack. Unopened packs should smell like wax or like a box of crayons. While not 100% foolproof, I did “catch” a pack of 1974 Topps baseball that was resealed with glue by smelling the back. P.S. that pack you showed us looked 99.99% legit. Thanks for sharing!

[arthurmabeejr]

I would say they were not resealed because how the pack opened cleanly. If someone re-glued them there would be a tear or multiply tears in the wax paper. I would say to you that you got an unsearched pack, it was not unusual for some cards to be reversed in the 1970-1974 topps cards, in fact I opened many that were reversed and sometimes 2 cards would be upside down. Wow!!! What a treat to get taken back to a 1973 wax Topps baseball card opening, thank you sir! I've wanted to add the only card off centering was the Yankees team card, if you look at the lower left vs the lower right it's definitely a cut off slight edge on the left side. However, all the other cards are centered very well: The off centering is Topps fault as I got even 2024 Topps Heritage, a throw back from the 1975 design. Unfortunately 78% of my newer cards are off centered, people can't blame the grading companies because they lose 1 to 3 points right off the top. This cost us hobbist and collectors big time, you would think Topps would get it correct by now but, it's sad because the cost we put into thier cards is lost. They still say they center all of thier cards? It's hogwash, ever wondered why people give up on collecting, considering one of the only few licensed cards are Topps and thier the oldest card makers in the business.

[golfmaniac]

many of these came back 10's? the centering on front looks incredible.

[randallbaker]

Very informative. Thanks for refreshing some great memories for me!

[RichardTClark]

My favorite year just when I started collecting as a kid 1973 and 74 autograph cards sets they ended up lost over the years so ended up buying back all the sets I had 1972-1985 spent a fortune rebuilding my collection but all mint cards in plastic protectors or albums now in the safe hopefully appreciating in value
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[PussySlayer]

Wow! Those cards are clean! Beautiful cards.

[SPICY_BEAR]

WOW! Unopened 1973 pack!? 😮😀

That's incredible!

[DaveDurango]

One of the coolest sets ever produced.

[roberthuot]

Unfortunately no HOF but the cards were great. Love the video. Thanks 4 sharing bro.👍

[bernieudo]

Great video. Goes w/o saying, but that's the Schmidt rookie card year. Not sure if these were in three series, but if that is the case that 3rd series is tuff since moms & pops usually didn't order late into the baseball season since some didn't sell out their 2nd series & brokers didn't bother ordering late into the year. Keep doing those breaks. Rack box next?

[frankspicci]

Love the Break Man! I love Mint 73's!!

[JohnJohn-gsmd]

I'm no expert on unopened wax but who really is. The pack seemed good to me.

[anik]

Nice cards, look at the centering on those!

[smichaels]

Those were some big, nice pieces of gum Topps inserted in the 70's! My heyday was opening junk wax in the mid-late 80's and, I remember, the gum being smaller. Junk wax were a rip off all around the board haha

[johnc]

Thanks for posting it. I'd submit the Johnson and Didier. Centering is borderline for a 9 but they are low pop 9s if you hit one.

[itzmikeomg]

I agree with others here, every packfrom the 70s has been searched. Steam and an iron can work magic.
Don't get suckered out of your money. And yes even hobby boxes are searched.

[annrambo]

Good video ! More education is always good it sucks ppl have to rely on a group like PSA an becket for authenticating ! I question these so called professionals they have working for them .

[gje]

Wow 73 are so hard to get good centering nice break

[tbm]

Just found your channel and I liked & subbed. Nice vintage break. Looking forward to seeing more in the future. Thanks for sharing.

[Helton]

The NYY team card (even though they weren't very good during that stretch) if graded out nicely could be the best card there. The '73 Davey Johnson was one of my favorites as a kid. This was the beginning of seeing some game action photos on cards in the Topps traditional sets. Previously they were almost exclusively still photo shots.