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Collector's World 0210
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DOES UPPER DECK LOW-BALL COLLECTORS IN HIGH SET?
An open letter to Upper Deck: I am not one to regularly air my complaints but I feel I must in this instance. After several months, I completed your low series hockey card set. This was done by buying packs, trading, attending shows, etc. Then I waited for your high series hockey cards to come out. Well, I just bought two packs of high series cards for $1.25 each. Imagine my surprise when I opened the packs and found that of the 24 cards, only eight were from the high series. Then I read the side of the packs which said the cards inside were from the entire set of cards. Then why state on the front, “High Series?” Why weren’t high number cards in low number packs? This is false advertising. Assuming each…
EXCLUSIVE ROOKIES MAKE PARKHURST A WINNER
Pro Set went back to the past in reviving the Parkhurst name but it was with an eye to the future that Series 2 was created. Printed after the Stanley Cup final, the 225-card set includes several players-mainly Olympians-who made their NHL debuts in the second half of the season. Since these players don’t appear in any other set, their only rookie cards are in Parkhurst 2. Among the players are Boston Bruins’ center Joe Juneau, Pittsburgh Penguins’ left winger Shawn McEachern and Chicago Blackhawks’ goaltender Ray LeBlanc. Series 2 also includes the first Parkhurst cards of rookies such as Vancouver Canucks’ right winger Pavel Bure and Blackhawks’ goaltender Dominik Hasek. Both Bure and Hasek appear in an eight-card Rookie Leaders subset which features a design adapted from the 1960-61 Parkhurst series. The…
COMPLETE JUNIOR CARD PRICES IN SPECIAL GUIDE
Last year, I bought some Seventh Inning cards from the Ontario League and Western League. I got cards of Alek Stojanov, Steven Rice and two Ray Whitney cards. What are the values of these and other major cards in the set? Neil Rawluk Lougheed, Alta. The Stojanov and Rice cards are worth about 30 cents each and the Whitney card sells for about $1.25. Listings for all major junior cards produced by Seventh Inning Sketch are included in our special Price Guide beginning on page 22. I have several 1961-62 Shiriff/Salada hockey coins. I don’t want to sell them but I am curious as to their value. Marcel Recollet Wikwemikong, Ont. The complete 1961-62 Shiriff coin set was listed in the Summer, 1991 issue (Vol. 1, No. 8) of Collectors World. There are 120 coins in the…
TIP OF THE MONTH
No hockey card set this season has been a bigger disappointment in the marketplace than the Upper Deck High Number series. The set has been a poor seller because few NHL rookies appear in the 200-card series. But astute collectors, especially those who followed the 1992 entry draft, know this is a set worth investing in. Fifty players who participated in the 1991 World Junior Championships have rookie cards in the High Number series. Sixteen of those players were just chosen in the entry draft. Among them are the No. 2 pick, Alexei Yashin of the Ottawa Senators and the No. 5 selection, Darius Kasparaitis of the New York Islanders. Three other players in the set-Ryan Sittier (No. 7 to Philadelphia), Sergei Krivokrasov (No. 12 to Chicago) and Peter Ferraro (No. 24 to…
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