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From: tom@runner.GSFC.NASA.Gov (Tom Winkert)
Subject: Baseball Cards Wanted (Team Sets Mets,Phillies)
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md, USA
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:54:05 GMT



I am interested in Team Sets for the Mets and Phillies
any year but mostly 1975-present.  I am also look for
1964 commons.  Please contact me if you have any for 
sale.


Thanks,
Tom

Email to tom@runner.gsfc.nasa.gov
From: dmills@accvio.intel.com (Dave Mills)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: Re: STAMP:HELP WANTED.
Date: 31 Dec 92 01:30:00 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Dec30.192448.4199@vax.cns.muskingum.edu>, ar_jolly@vax.cns.muskingum.edu writes...
>GREETINGS!
>I am an avid philatelist. I am an International student here at Muskingum
>College..
>I have been receiving in the mail, offers for 22K replica gold stamps.
>I was wondering if they are of good collectors value.
> 
>			Thank You 
>					Arjun Raj Jolly

In general, 99.99% of the time, the answer is no, No, NO!  Here's how to figure
it:  if ((amount of metal in item*value of metal) < (0.95*cost of object))
         don't buy it.

Add random :) to get me off the hook, but that's how I figure it.  Obviously,
if you're interested for other reasons than speculation, then it's a different
story.

Dave
-----------------
David Mills
Intel Corporation
dmills@intel.com
From: dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: CARDS: Topps '93 Hockey, for sale
Date: 31 Dec 92 12:09:15 GMT
Reply-To: dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD


 For sale: '93 Topps hockey set; hand collated set, #1 - 529.
 $8.00 plus shipping.. e-mail for details..
.
.
.
.
..
From: cj137@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jack Jeffries)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: TOYS: LATE 1960's EARLEY 1970s TONKA CARS
Date: 4 Jan 1993 01:56:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


FOR SALE:

Late 1960's early 1970's Tonka Cars

VW BEETLE
JEEP WAGANEER
PICKUP TRUCK (CUSTUM STYLING)
HORSE TRANSPORTER

ALL FOR ONLY $30 postpaid.

(these were mine as a child)
Xref: sparky rec.collecting:9782 rec.arts.comics.marketplace:4330
From: nschultz@zeus.calpoly.edu (Ned Schultz)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting,rec.arts.comics.marketplace
Subject: CARDS: Silver Surfer, Doomsday, Shadowhawk...
Date: 2 Jan 93 06:17:44 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Looking to trade (possibly buy) to complete the following sets:

Doomsday: Death of Superman  Skybox 1992
----------------------------------------
Need:    3, 4, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27
         31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44
         50, 52, 55, 58, 59, 61, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 75, 76
         77, 82, 83, 85, 87, 88, CL01, C1, C2, C4, C5, C7
 
Spares:  7, 33, 41, 48, 49, 53, 62, 67, 74, 78, 81, 86, 89
         C3, C9
 
Dracula  Topps 1992
-------------------
Need:   2, 4, 8, 9, 12, 24, 27, 30, 32, 36, 42, 44, 45, 48, 49
        51, 56, 66, 67, 68, 81, 82, 83, 85, 87, 90, 92, 98, 99, 100
        
Spares: 17, 22, 37, 41, 46, 50, 59, 60, 69, 79
        80, 84, 86, 88, 89, 94, 95, 97
 
Shadowhawk  Comic Images 1992
-----------------------------
Need:     3, 16, 19, 24, 31, 32, 49, 62, 63, 65, 89
 
Spares:   8, 11, 15, 26, 38, 40, 42, 55, 57, 58, 71, 72, 83, 86, 90
 
Silver Surfer  Comic Images 1992
--------------------------------
Need:     7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 26, 27, 30, 36, 38
          39, 40, 42, 45, 46, 47, 55, 57, 58, 64, 67, 71
          
Spares:   1, 4, 5, 9, 19, 22, 24, 31, 32, 35, 37, 44, 51, 52, 53
          59, 61, 68
 

I'm also looking for a Doomsday F1.  I've got some goodies to offer
for it, or will consider buying.

-------------------------
Ned Schultz
nschultz@nike.calpoly.edu
nschultz@polyslo.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
From: VBHARGAVA@Meena.CC.URegina.CA (Bhargava, Vipin k)
Subject: CARDS: Getting Autographs, help?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 20:36:35 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada

I am interested in getting autographs of some of my favorite players.
Which teams/players are good for this? Which ones aren't? Also, do you
just send the card to be autographed to the address given in Beckett for
the team, or is there another place to get an address?

Thanks,
Vip
From: fletty@staff.tc.umn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: CARDS: Let's trade commons: Your favorite for Twins
Date: 29 Dec 92 14:07:59 GMT
Distribution: .na
Organization: University of Minnesota

I'm attempting to clear out all my unwanted doubles. I'd like to swap
doubles of your favorite team for any extra Twins that you have, especially
any extra Kirby Puckett cards.

I've recently completed several deals in which I've been able to find between
80 to 200 cards for people. I'm not interested in getting an exact Beckett
value for the extra cards I have, I just want to make room for the 93s. For
example, I just sent 217 cards to someone in exchange for 125 Twins.

EVERYTHING MUST GO! THESE PRICES CAN'T BE BEAT!

Most of the doubles are Upper Deck '91 and '92, others include Stadium Club '92,Fleer '92, Fleer Ultra '92, Pinnacle... You want 'em, you got 'em.

Steve
From: mjohnson@zeus.calpoly.edu (Mark S. Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: LUNCHBOXES: Sources for prices/values
Date: 31 Dec 92 20:28:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Mechanical Engrg. Dept., California Poly. State U., SLO

I've been reading subject lines in this group for a while and I
haven't seen this mentioned and I haven't seen an FAQ. So....

Is there a price guide that covers 1960s metal lunchboxes? (Superman,
Batman, Snoopy....that kind of stuff). I've checked "Kovell's" (sp?)
and the boxes it lists are rather limited. Does that mean that most of
them aren't worth squat?

Please email a responce...I'll summarize.

Thanks, Mark

-- 
Mark S. Johnson        mjohnson@stn9.me.calpoly.edu      (129.65.19.9)
From: ar710@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William G. Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: Re: COINS: Telemarketers
Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:58:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ar710@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William G. Martin)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Does anyone else on this list listen to the "Money Makes Money" radio
program by Michael Pappageorgio, broadcast on WWCR shortwave weekly
at 0530 UTC Sundays on 7435 kHz? This man runs one of these rare-coin
exchanges and dealerships, but most of his program is discussion of
non-mainstream economics. For example, he had Presidential candidate 
Bo Gritz as a guest on a couple programs prior to the election, and they
discussed the evils of the Federal Reserve and how to eliminate the
national debt. He spends the rest of the time saying how wonderful rare coins
are as an investment.

The one thing I can't understand is why he wants to sell these rare coins,
if they are so much better an investment or an asset than any stocks
or bonds or cash money... If you believe what he says, it means that
he loses vast amounts of future wealth every time he sells one of them... :-)

Any comments about him in particular?
-- 
Will Martin
wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil OR wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil
From: au500@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda Zinn)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: Hindenburg baggage stickers: Ethical question
Date: 30 Dec 1992 14:02:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Reply-To: au500@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda Zinn)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


While digging through the basement at an estate sale last summer I ran
across a pile of oval baggage stickers depicting the airship Hindenburg and
an American Airlines plane, along with a letter stating that the stickers
had been printed for the series of flights of which the fateful May 1937
trip was to be the first. American Airlines was to provide "exclusive
connecting service" for the Hindenburg passengers once it landed in NJ.
The man whose estate it was had worked for American Airlines, and on May 6,
1937, the day of the crash, had gone to his office and grabbed the
stickers.

A local rare-book dealer came into the basement just after I made my
discovery and found a few more stickers, which he bought. The dealer wanted
my 400+ stickers and ultimately offered me a sizable amount of money for
them. Alas, on the day the transaction was to take place, I was looking
through some other old papers from the estate and realized that the
few stickers on which the color was a bit darker were originals and the
slightly lighter ones (identical otherwise) were reprints from the 1970s 
that the deceased had sold to raise money for a local cultural center.
I notified the potential buyer of my discovery who, like me, was relieved
that I had figured out the stickers were repros and disappointed that the 
find was not quite as sweet as we had both thought.

I would hate to destroy these stickers, because they are quite lovely and
depict a bit of history. I have no use for 400 baggage stickers, and I 
would love to sell them but am afraid some unscrupulous person might
pawn them off as the originals, because without comparing an original and a
reprint side by side, I'm sure no one could tell the difference. Any
suggestions?

By the way, I only have one original left, which I will keep. I sold a few
and gave the rest to family members.
--
From: acp@cray.com (Anthony Peterson)
Subject: FISHING TACKLE WANTED
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:09:14 CST

	I'm looking for Pre-1940 fishing tackle such as:

	Wood, cork, or early plastic bobbers.
	Wood, metal, or early plastic lures.
	Wooden spools of fishing line.
	Split bamboo casting rods.
	Wooden tackle boxes.
	Bait shop advertising (signs, tackle displays, etc.)
	Tackle catalogs.
	Outdoor magazines.

	Tony Peterson  acp@palm.cray.com  (612) 422-8889
From: rfh3273@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Dick Harrigill)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: Re: Does it BUG you?  If so, why so?
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:04:18 GMT
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle

In article <72027@cup.portal.com> EZ-as-pi@cup.portal.com (Bruce Robert Gilson) writes:
>Card collecting ...
>It does, however, _puzzle_ me,
>because I can't see the sense of
>collecting something that is just
>printed to sell to collectors. Now I
>am a wide-ranging collector of paper
>items ranging from bus transfers to
>currency, but everything I collect has
>the distinction that it has a _primary_
>use that is not for collecting. So
>I just can't _understand_ card collectors.

There are many things that one can collect with little or no use or 
intrinsic value.
These include:
-figurines (you can't do anything with them except look at them), 
-postcards (yes, you can mail a baseball card too if you wish),
-commemerative coins (you can't spend 'em),
-tourist spoons (have you ever seen one used?),
-various tourist "I was there" paraphenalia (where is Wall Drug?),
-Avon cologne bottles (see figurines above),
-Star Trek communicators (no one is there to beam you up),
-Rocks,
-Models,
-Candles (that are too pretty to light),
-Ted Kennedy campaign pins,
and so forth.


-- 
Dick Harrigill, an independent voice from:     Boeing Commercial Airplanes 
M/S 9R-49  PO BOX 3707                       Renton Avionics/Flight Systems
Seattle, WA  91824                                  Computing Support
(206) 393-9539    rfh3273@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com    CDP, PP-ASEL
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Subject: Re: COINS
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories,  Columbus, Ohio
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:52:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.230030.23687@samba.oit.unc.edu> Tom.Hazen@launchpad.unc.edu (thomas hazen) writes:
>I am interested in hearing from other coin collectors, especially those
>interested in selling coins.

Tom:  I tried to respond via email but got the following error:

All: Please excuse my use of the net for this mail, but if there's
something wrong with a mailer, I will try to point it out.

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 From: ask@cblph.att.com
 Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 15:02 EST
 To: Tom.Hazen@launchpad.unc.edu
 
 Tom:
 What are you interested in?
-- 
Art Kamlet  a_s_kamlet@att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
From: picasso@acs.bu.edu (David Ondzes)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: '93 McDonald's-Upper Deck NHL All-Star Collector Series
Date: 31 Dec 1992 12:51:43 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

> McDonald's of Canada has announced it will be, once again, selling
> McDonald's-Upper Deck NHL All-Star Collector Series cards.  The series
> will go on sale tomorrow at McDonald's restaurants in Canada.  The set is
> composed of 33 players including Trevor Linden.  I will post a complete
> checklist when I am able to obtain one.
> 
> If you're interested in pre-ordering some packs, please contact me for
> details.

Would it be possible for you to get me a pack ? I believe we have traded
in the past. Just let me know how it will cost (including shipping) and I
will send you a check.


Thanks
David Ondzes

ps - for some reason my first message bounced, it said 

"Article not posted -- more included text than new text
(Article not posted.)"

Newsgroups: rec.collecting
From: duane@mothra.rose.hp.com (Duane)
Subject: Star Trek Enterprise Ornament
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:49:31 GMT
Organization: HP - Systems Technology Division
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

Well hears the poop on the poop ... 

Some of the Hallmark Stores are carring last years Enterprise ... for a price.

Here in Northern California they are selling them for $150.00. 


Check your local Hallmark Stores or better Yet ... Call them 1-800-Halmark or
something like that ... Call the 1-800 Operator  ... for the real number.


Good Luck


duane 


Newsgroups: rec.collecting
From: diamond@jit533.jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Subject: Re: What's the next BIG thing? (was Re: Does it BUG you?)
Reply-To: diamond@jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:28:41 GMT

In article <33450137@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> lynch@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Howard Lynch) writes:
>How do you want to bet?  Too bad you can't "short sell" baseball cards :-)

You borrow cards from a willing lender, with a promise to return the cards
at some future date.  You sell the cards.  You buy them back before the
determined time, or arrange an extension, or whatever.

Now if only you could do that with real estate :-)
--
Norman Diamond       diamond@jit081.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.
"It's been a lovely recession."
From: jsmith@owlnet.rice.edu (James Pope Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: Re: CARDS: T2 wax boxes
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:55:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rice University

In article <1992Dec29.062518.2707@muddcs.claremont.edu> byau@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ben Yau) writes:
>
>Hi all!.. even more stuff in my closet for sale...
>
>is anyone interested in any Terminator 2 movie cards?  I have plenty 
>o' wax boxes.  I am not sure what they go for, but I would like to 
>sell.  i'm not sure what they are going for, but I would like
>to get $13 for one box + half shipping.
>If you are buying more than one box, than $12.50 each and I pay 
>shipping.
>

I have some spare as well.  I'll sell them for $10+shipping.  These are the
Impel Terminator (not the Topps).  The Topps ones are not as popular, and
Impel got the better contract.  The correlation on the boxes are around
97-100%.  Out of 3 boxes, I think I have made 2 complete sets and 3 other
near complete sets.  Not bad.  I also have Terminator II sets for $15.00
plus shipping.  Cards numbered 1-140 plus special offer cards.  No hologram.
The hologram comes with the $30 factory set.  Email at jsmith@owlnet.rice.edu
if interested.
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
From: frambs@acpy01.att.com (Ken Frambs (CXNIXPT1))
Subject: Stadium Club wantlist
Organization: AT&T IMS - Piscataway, NJ (USA)
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 13:23:28 GMT


I am looking to trade to finish up some Topps Stadium Club sets.
Below is a list of what cards I still need. I have many doubles
from these sets to trade (along with 91/92 TSC Hockey and 92 TSC
Baseball). Send email if interested in trading.

Thanks,
Ken Frambs
frambs@acpy01.att.com

92/93 Topps Stadium Club Basketball (series 1)

  3   7   8  11  21  30  33  35  36  39  40  41  43  46  51  58  65  75  84
 85  86  97 100 102 105 107 110 111 115 117 118 119 121 125 126 128 131 134
144 145 151 153 155 160 161 162 168 171 175 176 178 184 188 191 194 195 198
199


92/93 Topps Stadium Club Hockey (series 1)

  2   5  10  14  22  24  25  32  50  55  85  89 112 115 116 123 126 132 141
143 145 150 153 157 162 171 175 184 190 194 197 201 206 221 228 229 242

                                (series 2)

252 265 266 272 275 281 287 296 299 301 305 312 313 322 341 342 346 348 353
355 367 369 397 398 404 406 408 416 419 420 424 428 429 432 433 437 440 443
447 452 454 457 470 485 488 492 494 495 496
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: Re: STAMP:HELP WANTED.
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:52:30 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu

In <30DEC199217305684@accvio.intel.com> dmills@accvio.intel.com (Dave Mills) writes:

>In article <1992Dec30.192448.4199@vax.cns.muskingum.edu>, ar_jolly@vax.cns.muskingum.edu writes...
>>GREETINGS!
>>I am an avid philatelist. I am an International student here at Muskingum
>>College..
>>I have been receiving in the mail, offers for 22K replica gold stamps.
>>I was wondering if they are of good collectors value.
>> 
>>			Thank You 
>>					Arjun Raj Jolly

>In general, 99.99% of the time, the answer is no, No, NO!  Here's how to figure
>it:  if ((amount of metal in item*value of metal) < (0.95*cost of object))
>         don't buy it.

>Add random :) to get me off the hook, but that's how I figure it.  Obviously,
>if you're interested for other reasons than speculation, then it's a different
>story.

>Dave
>-----------------
>David Mills
>Intel Corporation
>dmills@intel.com

It also depends on the "country" they are from...Pabay, Stroma, Staffa, Ajman,
Sharjah, etc, are "not valid for postage" wallpaper printers...
 
Some gold stamps were printed, but frowned upon by the collectors...avoid them.

Crystal
  ;>

Newsgroups: rec.collecting
From: msvg2539@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark V.)
Subject: CARDS: ToppsGold Winners needed (baseball)
Summary: ToppsGold Winners needed
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:16:07 GMT
Keywords: ToppsGold winners



I need the following cards to complete my Winner set:


1992 ToppsGold Winners Baseball
-------------------------------
 27    90   170   173   184   190   281   305   460   465  

506   516   548   583   673   710   748  


Any help would be appreciated. I have plenty of doubles
to trade.

Thanks,

  Mark V.
  mark@lassi.ece.uiuc.edu
From: jtd@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (John T. DeMent)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: Re: FOR SALE: Star Trek Enterprise "Star Globe" $300
Date: 28 Dec 92 12:08:11 GMT
Reply-To: jtd@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (The DeMented One)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1hfr4jINNbes@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bn202@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gregg E. Woodcock) writes:
>
>I have spent the last several weeks tracking down these things
>and they are *IMPOSSIBLE* to find!  I did finally find a Hallmark
>store that had 5 and I bought them all.  I therefore have 4 left
>to sell.  Since these are many times more scarce than the 1991
>which are going for $250, I am going to sell these for $300 (that
>includes 1st class shipping to anywhere in the world) each.  These
>things are *very* cool; here is the description from the side of

These are available by special order from Hallmark stores for $50.
I recommend people "pass up" this greedy special offer.

-- The DeMented One
From: lynch@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Howard Lynch)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:28:26 GMT
Subject: Re: What's the next BIG thing? (was Re: Does it BUG you?)
Organization: OCD IC MFG
Newsgroups: rec.collecting

/ hpcc01:rec.collecting / rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez) /  7:54 am  Dec 17, 1992 /
>If you want to know how the "Latest Hot Fad" got started,
>see Donruss, 1984, Don Mattingly.  The LHF has been burning for 8 years
>now, which is pretty long.  But it will fall, and I bet soon.

How do you want to bet?  Too bad you can't "short sell" baseball cards :-)

Seriously, people have been saying that the bubble will burst on baseball
cards since at least 1985!  I rememeber seeing "news stories" of investment
analysts who predicted a crash in the market in the mid-80's who in fact
did find a way to "bet", buy selling short on Topps Company.  They lost
some money on this bet!

The baseball card market is certainly changing.  The products are changing
rapidly, lots of inovative cards and marketing of the cards (ie. inserts),
and their price is going up and up and up.

It is interesting to note how soft the 'trade' market is for post-1987
baseball cards.  It is harder to find dealers willing to trade for these
cards (not to mention 'buy' these cards), even for other post-1987 issues.
There was a reflection of this softening in the market recently with the
Beckett Baseball Card Magazine started droping the 'value' of most of the
post-1987 sets and cards.

The core of the baseball card market is its place in Americana.  Americans
love baseball, and they love being fans!

Ah, just my $.02 worth, if that :-)

Howard Lynch
hl@hpocia.sj.hp.com