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MaineMule
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Cleaning my closet this afternoon and stumbled across a 700+ count box that I forgot I had. Opened it up and it's a 1988 Topps set (year I graduated college and had really stopped collecting for those 4 years). I have no idea how I acquired the set but it is/was not in numbered order.
This immediately reminded me that when I was a young teen, I worked on occasion for a local hobby shop hand collating sets (into #'d order). This was probably circa 1978/80. I would sort by the 100's, then break each 100 into the 10's, and wallah, the cards would be in order. I know I was compensated in some way for my time and I certainly spent the money at the shop.
So......I have 150 of the 792 cards in order as of now (my old eyes needed a break) and will knock off the rest while watching/listening to Sox and Pats tonight. It has been great fun to flip over the cards to see many names from my late youth. I was reminded that Topps would always put the biggest stars on cards #d 50, 100, 150, etc.... I ran across a Mike Schmidt and George Brett (both in that sequence) and an early card of Tom Glavine (with a random # since he was an unknown). Other stars also were on card numbers ending in 0's and 5s.
Anyone else remember sorting cards like this, either for fun or for a hobby shop?
This immediately reminded me that when I was a young teen, I worked on occasion for a local hobby shop hand collating sets (into #'d order). This was probably circa 1978/80. I would sort by the 100's, then break each 100 into the 10's, and wallah, the cards would be in order. I know I was compensated in some way for my time and I certainly spent the money at the shop.
So......I have 150 of the 792 cards in order as of now (my old eyes needed a break) and will knock off the rest while watching/listening to Sox and Pats tonight. It has been great fun to flip over the cards to see many names from my late youth. I was reminded that Topps would always put the biggest stars on cards #d 50, 100, 150, etc.... I ran across a Mike Schmidt and George Brett (both in that sequence) and an early card of Tom Glavine (with a random # since he was an unknown). Other stars also were on card numbers ending in 0's and 5s.
Anyone else remember sorting cards like this, either for fun or for a hobby shop?