1986 Fleer Basketball Wax Box with 36 Unopened Packs. ...
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1986 Fleer Basketball Wax Box with 36 Unopened Packs. While the 1980's saw a welcome surge in interest in the sports card collecting, this trend resulted in a veritable tsunami of cardboard from the old guard and newcomers alike, creating a supply that drowned even that augmented demand. Today you'll find sets of Donruss, Topps and Upper Deck still in the shrink wrap, and selling for less than the thirty-year old price tag affixed. But there was one noteworthy exception for basketball fans - the 1986 Fleer edition of 132 cards and eleven stickers.Almost three decades later it is an issue that stands proudly as the most coveted basketball set of the modern era. Not since the fabled "Tall Boys" of the 1969-70 Topps issue has a basketball issue boasted such a remarkable assembly of rookie talent, highlighted, of course, by the number fifty-seven card (and number eight sticker) dedicated to the iconic Michael Jordan. A short list of esteemed stars and Hall of Famers who appear in this set (many their rookie debut) include Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler, Joe Dumars, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Manute Bol, Wayman Tisdale, Chris Mullin, Hakeem Olajuwon, Isiah Thomas, Dominique Wilkins, James Worthy, Patrick Ewing, Magic Johnson, Julius Erving, Larry Bird and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Offered is an original retail box with thirty-six unopened wax packs. The outer box presents close to mint with inner packs just as high quality. This is the ultimate representation of the modern trading card hobby's most iconic and important wax box. See our web site for contents of letter from Steve Hart.
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Steve Hart Baseball Card Exchance Letter:
To Whom it may concern:
This letter is being written for the 1986/87 Fleer basketball wax box that is labeled #X0219.
It is in my best opinion that this wax box is not the exact 36 packs issued by Fleer. The packs appear to have come from different boxes to make this one "36 pack box". In addition, each pack still has a price sticker on the front of it. However, the packs are 100% original. We will label this box as a "36 pack box". One of the packs does not have a sticker in it.
The sticker collation for this box is as follows:
Jabbar - 3 Stickers
Bird - 3 Stickers
Dantley - 2 Stickers
English - 4 Stickers
Erving - 3 Stickers
Ewing - 4 Stickers
Johnson - 2 Stickers
Jordan - 3 Stickers
Olajuwon - 3 Stickers
Thomas - 6 Stickers
Wilkins - 2 Stickers
Sincerly Yours,
Steve Hart
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