Sort of like those Exhibit postcards from the 1930s and 40s, I really didn't know where these famous binders from the junk wax era came from. I remembered Hygrade was an Ultra Pro-like company that made supplies but were they sold as binders individually or were they a mail order type of thing?
They are sized to hold roughly a complete set of cards and mine is currently being used to house my 1972 Topps set that is a work in progress.
Recently on a visit back home to Minnesota and Wisconsin, I stopped by Bloomington's Three Star Sportscards and stumbled upon where the binders originated from.
They came in these great Baseball Card Collecting Kit that was everything a novice collector would need to get started managing their collection.
Baseball card album
20 vinyl pages
25 card holders
Baseball card price guide
Guide of baseball cards
Greatest games and records book
100 baseball cards
40 all-time greats cards
5 rare card reprints
The reverse gives you more specifics on what you will receive inside.
Three Stars had two sets and priced them at $20 which I think is fair and who knows what the "100 baseball cards" might be. But I had my eye on other things, including a Twins card guide and a Brad Radke bobblehead.
The image of the price guide on the back seems pretty basic and I wonder if inside you actually received one of the famous Hygrade guides, which claimed to hold the values of cards up to $6,750.
In my ever-growing collection of old price guides, I have one of those that was purchased at Shopko (R.I.P.) back in the day.
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