Perry's Sports Collectibles

Archive for January, 2012

Sports cards used to be for children. They would buy packs for the gum, tape the cards to their walls and throw them in shoeboxes when they were done with them. Not too many people ever thought they would be valuable one day and probably wish they would have held on to their cards.

In the early 80s, card collecting became a very profitable hobby. Collectors were willing to pay big bucks for vintage cards and some dishonest individuals decided to capitalize on the demand for these cards. They started producing fake cards and selling them as Read the rest of this entry »