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1986 Fleer Basketball Wax Box with 36 Unopened Packs. ...
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1986 Fleer Basketball Wax Box with 36 Unopened Packs. While the 1980s 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.Nearly four 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.
The experts at Baseball Card Exchange have determined that the packs are all 100% original and untampered, "with only a single pack out of sequence in the Fleer collation." They assess the packs at "NM/MT to MINT" condition, identifying the sticker collation as follows: Jabbar (3), Bird (3), Dantley (3), English (3), Erving (2), Ewing (3), Johnson (4), Jordan (4), Olajuwon (4), Thomas (4) and Wilkins (3). Authenticated & sealed by Baseball Card Exchange (BBCE).
Auction Info
2025 May 16 - 18 Spring Sports Catalog Auction #50077 (go to Auction Home page)
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May, 2025
16th-18th
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