johnsmithysmithy
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Hello Old School Basketball lovers,
Not sure if there a discussion on this forum as yet for Australian collectors, I think its great news.
Since collecting basketball cards in the early 1990s, they always listed these cards and I thought when I was young dreaming of having a 1984/85 Star Co Michael Jordan XRC #101 would be awesome but for $3000 bucks back then and hardly ever seeing Star Co I thought they were so rare, Then I learnt no one wanted Star Co cards and 1986/87 Fleer was the real deal with old school basketball collectors and every grading companies had a piece of the pie and Star Co was just floating only to be graded by GAI.
Now that BGS have come on board, it will be good to get them to come alive again, there are alot of fakes out there but if it wasn't for Star Co, there would of been a huge gap with topps stopping after the 1981/82 season, Star Co had alot of sets and subset and there so many Jordans in the 1984/85 set, I really think people should get into these cards.
So what they ain't real RC cards, thats another story, I think they are real RCs in bag set, Star Co came around trying their ideas with the bag sets and basketball was a joke to most everyday Americans in the early 1980s.
I think the 1983 to 1986 Star Co set are great, too bad they ain't around today If Star Co hanged around for another 3 or 4 years, they might of made some profit but I reckon we should be proud of them, in believing in basketball where Topps and Fleer just gave up.
I hope these cards get notice in the next few months, they are already getting listed in BGS graded covers on ebay, good on them Beckett
Here is the story
Beckett Grading Services to begin grading Star Basketball cards The Beckett Blog
Not sure if there a discussion on this forum as yet for Australian collectors, I think its great news.
Since collecting basketball cards in the early 1990s, they always listed these cards and I thought when I was young dreaming of having a 1984/85 Star Co Michael Jordan XRC #101 would be awesome but for $3000 bucks back then and hardly ever seeing Star Co I thought they were so rare, Then I learnt no one wanted Star Co cards and 1986/87 Fleer was the real deal with old school basketball collectors and every grading companies had a piece of the pie and Star Co was just floating only to be graded by GAI.
Now that BGS have come on board, it will be good to get them to come alive again, there are alot of fakes out there but if it wasn't for Star Co, there would of been a huge gap with topps stopping after the 1981/82 season, Star Co had alot of sets and subset and there so many Jordans in the 1984/85 set, I really think people should get into these cards.
So what they ain't real RC cards, thats another story, I think they are real RCs in bag set, Star Co came around trying their ideas with the bag sets and basketball was a joke to most everyday Americans in the early 1980s.
I think the 1983 to 1986 Star Co set are great, too bad they ain't around today If Star Co hanged around for another 3 or 4 years, they might of made some profit but I reckon we should be proud of them, in believing in basketball where Topps and Fleer just gave up.
I hope these cards get notice in the next few months, they are already getting listed in BGS graded covers on ebay, good on them Beckett
Here is the story
Beckett Grading Services to begin grading Star Basketball cards The Beckett Blog