March 30, 2023: Spring Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/30/2023
This is an outstanding grouping of the gauzy, oversized football and baseball cards that gained so much traction in the hobby, featuring all the great stars and Hall of Famers from three decades ago and captivating eager collectors and dealers with large sets that put the larger size, enhanced gloss and glitzy production values to good effect. The offered group includes the three Gameday football issues from 1992-94, the massive array of McDonald’s Gameday Promotional Sheets from 1993, the unique 1993 Book Markers Baseball Colla Collection set, the 1994 Fleer Extra Bases set and the charming 1993 Upper Deck Baseball All-Time Heroes issue that mimicked the elongated design of the legendary T202 tobacco issue. Virtually all the cards and the promotional sheets are essentially as-issued, Near-Mint to Mint, with perhaps a few Near-Mints but certainly a largely unimprovable array. The Gameday and Fleer Extra Bases issues are 2 ½-by-4 ¾ inches and the Upper Deck All-Time Heroes are 2 ¼-by-5 ¼ inches. Here’s the breakdown (7): 1) 1992 Gameday Football complete set (500); 2) 1993 Gameday Football (480), plus 36 additional subset cards; 3) 1993 Diamond Marks Book Marker Colla Collection (80); 4) 1993 Upper Deck All-Time Heroes Baseball set (165); 6) 1993 McDonald’s Gameday Football Uncut Sheets, (30 sheets, 180 cards) are 8 ½-by-10 inches, 27 different teams with three sheets each and six players included on each sheet plus three sheets of individual players; and 7) 1994 Gameday Football set (420), plus 46 inserts from Flashing Stars, Game Breaker, Rookie Standouts and 2nd Year Stars subsets.
1992-94 McDonalds and Gameday High-Grade Oversized Football Sets, Baseball issues (7)
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