1986-87 Fleer Basketball Cards case containing Michael Jordan rookie sells for more than $1.7M:
An unopened case of 1986-87 Fleer Basketball Cards sold for more than $1.78 million in an auction conducted by Collect Auctions on Thursday night.
The auction house described the box as “the Holy Grail of all modern items” and possibly the last one left in the sports-card collecting hobby. The case includes 12 wax boxes with 36 packs to a box.
You know, I have many of my childhood collections, and I have always maintained that one cannot get rich from the things from one’s childhood.
In spite of this incident, I’m going to hold to it. Because an unopened box likely came from a speculator or the remnants of an out-of-business collector shop somewhere. Not from someone’s childhood.
(Link via the Springfield Business Journal.)
