Friday, June 28, 2013

Topps Sports Card Locker

I found a cool item over at Cedar Cliff Collectibles a while ago.  I had never seen one before.


It's a Topps Sports Card Locker.  It was a mail-away item from Topps in the late 1970's and 1980.  Mail in details were printed on wax pack wrappers.  It was $5.25 plus 75 cents for handling.


This one came stocked with about 700 cards, mostly from 1980, but a few from 1979.  I'm going to leave the cards in it, which were carefully collated by team by the previous owner.  I'm also going to buy a few empty wax wrappers from 1980 to display with it.


4 comments:

GOGOSOX60 said...

It's like a time machine to a different era of collecting!

Joseph Garrison said...

As a child of the 70's, I can tell you that my friends and I all had these growing up in Pennsylvania.

Joseph Garrison said...

As a child of the 1970's I can tell you that all my friends and I had these lockers for our cards

Droidtrader said...

Cool! Still have yours?