I been sitting on this box since I got it in June. I ended up being too busy and barely got the time go into full detail til now. Middle of the year I was going through one of my boxes and found Dollar Tree packs from a company called Cardsone. I notice they have a website so I checked them out and, lo and behold, they are still around. They are selling packs Dollar Tree used to sell to boxes and lots from various sports to comic books and supplies. I decide to order from them including a loaded hockey card box. There was few problems as few of the items I ordered were out of stock. Even though I wasn't charged for out of stock items I wish they updated their site daily to not include them. On to the loaded hockey card box it contains 100 cards, 10 packs, and 10 cards from 1970-1979.
The packs I received in the box are 1990-91 Pro Set, 1990-91 Bowman, 1990-91 Upper Deck, 1991-92 Score, 1991-92 Pro Set Platinum, 1991-92 Pro Set french edition, 1992-93 Pro Set, 1993-94 Topps Premier, 2003-04 In the Game Toronto Star, and 2006-07 Victory. You can find most of my card pulls on A Pack to be Named Later with links to it. I counted the cards and I end up with total of 125 cards. Looks like I got extra loaded box. Some of the cards have dinged corners or scuffed up. For the 10 vintage cards I got the following:
1972-73 Topps: Serge Bernier and Bob Baun1975-76 Topps: Tom Williams, Phil Russell, Ross Lonsberry, Gary Dornhoefer. Not bad on Williams who was part of 1960 US hockey team that won the last gold for US before Miracle on Ice.
1976-77 Topps: Bill Clement, Curt Ridley (X2). I got two of Ridley's card. A good pull as in Clement who was two-time All-Star. Known to hockey card collectors for the infamous horrible Capitals airbrush on 1975-76 card.
1978-79 Topps: Ron SedlbauerThings with those cards they are in excellent to near-mint condition which pretty good consider that era of cards. These are 115 modern day era cards I got from the box. Instead posting everything I going to post examples of what I received.
89-90 O-Pee-Chee: Tony Hrkac, Gary Suter, Peter Stastny, Brian Bellows, Aaron Broten, Bob Brooke. Box starts with cards from solid OPC set.
1990-91 Pro Set: Doug Bodger, Dave Taylor, Trevor Linden, Bob McCammon.1990-91 O-Pee-Chee: Neal Broten1990-91 Topps: Paul Reinhart. Same design as OPC but Topps had fewer cards than OPC.
1990-91 Upper Deck: Wayne Gretzky hologram sticker, Joe Murphy, Greg Adams, Mats Sundin. Gretzky hologram would have sold alot back in the day. It's Mats first year card who was chosen first overall in 1989 draft.
1990-91 Score: Jyrki Lumme. Troy Loney, Mats Sundin1991-92 Classic : Marcel Cousineau. Only played 26 games in four seasons.
1991-92 O-Pee-Chee: Allen Pedersen, New York Rangers, Calgary Flames, David Reid1991-92 Score: Brian Benning, Peter Bondra1991-92 Pro Set: Bob Sweeney, Jeremy Roenick, Russ Courtnall, Brian Skrudland, Denis Savard, Vincent Damphousse, Theo Fleury (All-Star), Dave Gagner (All-Star). Ace Bailey Benefit Game, Sylvain Turgeon. 10 cards from this set. Gagner card was heavily dinged up on the corner and the card.
1991-92 Pro Set Platiunm: Craig Billington, James Belushi. According to Jim he's a Blackhawks fan
1991-92 Upper Deck: Markus Ketterer, Benoit Hogue, Ken Baumgartner. Ketterer had two season stint in North America playing AHL before returning back Sweden. Good shot Hogue's card as his jersey getting pulled on
1991-92 Pinnacle: Kevin Todd. French edition of the card.
1992-93 Classic Prospects: Dallas Drake, Todd Nelson, Terry Chitaroni1992-93 Classic Draft Picks: Sergei Klimovich (X3), Denny Felsner. I got three of Klimovich cards in this box. Felsner trying emulate Bobby Orr
1992-93 O-Pee-Chee Premier: Toronto Maple Leafs
1992-93 Topps Stadium: Checklist1992-93 Upper Deck: Darryl Sydor, Chris Lindberg, Kelly Buchberger, Joe Mullen, Patrick Roy, Neal Broten, Derian Hatcher, World Championship checklist, Joe Juneau (X2), Dean McAmmond, Tommy Sjodin. Dozen cards from this set including two of Joe Juneau. Roy can sure leap high.
1993-94 Classic Prospects: Jason Arnott, Alexandre Daigle, Chris Gratton, Jim Montgomery, Derek Plante (X2), John LeClair, Colin Chin, Jason Smith (X2), Tyler Wright, Yan Kaminsky, Ed Jovanovski, Brett Lindros, David Cooper, Cammi Granato, Erin Witten (X3), Manon Rheaume. This is equivalent of 1990-91 Bowman hockey in Fairfield hockey repack. Got 20 cards from this set counting the repeats. Manon card would fetch big money for a while. Cammi Granato cards would go up for a while after US woman hockey won the gold medal in 98 Winter Olympics. Classic would re-use Arnott photo for their Four-Sports set
1993-94 Classic Four-Sports: Grant Marshall. This set consist of prospects from baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Marshall would go on having a 11 year career
1993-94 Parkhurst: Brent Fedyk1993-94 Fleer Ultra: Stephane Richer, Patrik Carnback, Dean Evason (X5), Petr Klima, Darren Puppa. Yes I got five cards of Evason.I got a TTM on him back in 2014.
1993-94 Pinnacle: Greg Johnson
1993-94 Score: Pavol Demitra
1994-95 Classic Hockey: Andria Hunter (insert), Ryan Smyth (X2), Clayton
Beddes, David Vyborny. Another repeat card as in Ryan Smyth
1994-95 Parkhurst: Randy Wood
1994-95 Pinnacle: Cam Neely1994-95 Topps Premier: Steve Konowalchuk, Sergei Nemchinov
1995-96 Collector's Edge: Jamie Allison. I never heard of this set before. First card I got off them and I bought lots of Fairfield hockey repacks when it was available
1995-96 Upper Deck Swedish Elite: Mattias Ohlund (X3), Ulf Sandstrom (X2), Peter Eriksson, Per-Erik Eklund. Now cards I really never seen before and first time getting my hands on it. Upper Deck goes to Europe with release of Swedish Elite League cards. I got repeats on Ohlund and Sandstrom. All three cards were set inserts. Ohlund had 13 year career in NHL. Sandstrom never made the trek across the pond. Eriksson played for 89-90 Oilers in his only NHL season. Eklund is a base card. His only trip to North America is 97-98 season playing in the AHL. One of opposing teams is sponsored by McDonalds.
1995-96 Upper Deck Be a Player: Petr Nedved. Another set I never seen before. Licensed by NHLPA but not the NHL. The logos are airbrushed off.
1996-97 Donruss: Todd Marchant
This was fun box go through but is it worth $20 price? As long you in it for fun and not attempt to flip for a profit. Outside the vintage cards most of the cards and packs going around the junk wax era. No a single card from 2000 and only two packs are from 2000. I got 24 repeats out of 125 cards sent to me. I wonder how they randomly stuck cards in their loaded box. Several things on Cardsone. Company isn't up to date on their stock which is frustrating when you make a purchase only get an e-mail do they not have it. There been complaints for the lack of service as they been hard to reach. There is their website now. They updated from the last time I visited and its a giant mess to navigate through. Pretty much order at your own risk.
I'm pretty sure I've ordered from Cardsone in the past, but I just used your link and wasn't impressed. It's hard to see the links and navigate their site. I don't remember it being this way before.
ReplyDeleteSeeing that 1995-96 BAP Nedved brought back memories. I was really into that product and pulled a die-cut Patrick Roy autograph which I still have in my collection to this day. Although packs were expensive (maybe $5 to $8 each), there were a lot of big names on the checklist... which is why I ended up buying at least a box worth of packs. Also pulled Hasek and Modano autographs too.