The condition on most of these is pretty low, which is not unusual for old menko. But its great to be able to sort through stuff like this.
My purchase of the lot was mainly driven by the below card featuring Futoshi Nakanishifrom the 1960 JRM 53 set. Just three weeks ago I had written about how I just needed this card to finish this baby off and here it is! This is no small feat since there are only about 10 copies of this card known to exist in the hobby and its not the sort of thing you would expect to find in a lot where you paid about 30 cents per card.
I am still surprised that neither BBM, nor Epoch, have issued any menko-style retro sets.
ReplyDeleteThat would be cool to see.
DeleteWow. Awesome find on multiple levels. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteLike finding a little piece of personal treasure. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteYeah it is, thanks!
DeleteNice haul. It seems prices on round and die-cut menko have been down recently. Demand is down.
ReplyDeleteThanks! And yeah, demand for all cards except the very high end stuff seems to be pretty soft these days.
Deletein first image, the bottom right corner white blue red card is interesting, Ive never seen this series. very cool... PS thanks for all your blog posts, I run into the images when I do google searches and find your blog often.. your info helps alot, Mahalo and Aloha
ReplyDeleteThanks. That card in the lower right corner is the only one of its kind I have, its a generic Meiji University player as far as I can tell.
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