Psa / Heritage Auctions

1975 Topps Mini Charlie Conlon Collection

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I have long been a collector of the 1975 Topps mini baseball set. I have often scour the Internet for lots and boxes of this series. I have to ask though, are the Charlie Conlon collection 1975 Topps mini baseball cello boxes find worth $3995.00 a box? I think these cards however scare they may be, are equally over-priced. Granted the further into the future we go with baseball cards, and sports cards altogether, the more scare these will become. But I have to question any collector looking to plunk down this money for a cello box from this collection. The more years pass, the harder these cards will come by to find in mint or nrmt condition. But $3995.00 for a cello box is just plain ridiculous. Some unknown private collector has purchased two of the original 9 that are up for sale.

It appears to be quite the gamble to find a PSA 10 or BGS 10 in these boxes. Quite frankly for the true collector, owning a complete set of PSA 8 registered is far more valuable in my eyes and it would not cost you the amount of two of these cello boxes for sale on eBay. One of the great purchases that I made from the Topps 1975 baseball mini series was two boxes of 990 cards already sleeved and placed into plastic sleeves in which all are mint or nrmt. I made this purchase back in 2006. The total cost was $580.00, when I made this purchase there were still wax boxes of 1975 Topps mini (36 packs) available for $1300.00 plus. Now you cannot purchase these for under $2000.00.

While these cards are more and more quickly becoming favorites, they are full of factory defects, and the very colorful borders make them very difficult to not notice and extremely difficult to get in a high grade. This is why more and more, I am leaning towards getting a PSA registry set from one of the few vendors that have these cards already graded.