Beer Box I Find
While several of these full and near full wax boxes are extremely rare and haven’t been offered for
public sale in recent memory, others were not even known to exist until now. The collection comes
from a consignor whose relatives owned and operated a confectionary company that produced
trading cards, though they weren’t a direct national competitor to Topps, Fleer or Bowman in the
sports card market when these boxes hit the store shelves. In order to improve their own product,
company executive looked to “the big three” for research and inspiration by acquiring boxes of their
product, putting some away for future evaluation and opening a few packs of others to examine
the quality of the cards, the gum and the packaging. It’s certainly conceivable that they were
considering entering the national sports card market but were dissuaded by the seemingly endless
disputes and litigation between the competing companies over player contracts. In any event, all
of this unopened material has been locked away ever since, and as most other examples have all
but disappeared over the course of the last half-century, this collection has emerged in its original
state.
Baseball Card Exchange owner Steve Hart, widely recognized as the foremost authority of
unopened material, has examined each of these lots and verified their authenticity by sealing the
full boxes and adding their stamp of approval or providing a Letter of Authenticity and wrapping the
near full boxes. In each case, BBCE has determined that all of the material grades between NM
and MINT. There is no knowing when or even if an event like this will ever happen again, so please
take the opportunity presented before you and enjoy the auction!