Interview with a $1 Million Dollar Unopened Pack Collector

Interview with a $1 Million Dollar Unopened Pack Collector

A MILLION dollars' worth of unopened, vintage packs! Larry Solomon joins Leighton to talk about his rare items including a 1962 Topps baseball sealed cello pack with Roger Maris on top.

We're not sure we could keep these items sealed! We are Vintage BREAKS, after all. Our owner, Leighton, sat down with Larry Solomon. Larry has been collecting unopened wax and has owned/owns a collection valued at a million dollars!

Larry has NEVER opened a single pack nor has he owned a single loose card; his entire collection has been sealed wax! Zero chance we could look at one of Larry's packs and not break it. We broke a 1955 Bowman cello pack and pulled a pack-fresh Mickey Mantle live on stage at the National Sports Collectors Convention! You can see that historic pull HERE. Just a few weeks ago, we opened a 1967 Topps baseball rack pack that you watch HERE.

Hear Larry's story and see a few of his prized possessions on Leighton's podcast, Trading Card Therapy:

 

Thank you for joining the show, Larry! Now that you've seen a few of Larry's packs, would YOU rip that 1962 Topps cello with Roger Maris right on top? Sealed for over 50 years, that Maris card hasn't seen the light of day. In 1962, Roger Maris fresh off his record-breaking home run total of 61 in 1961, his second of back-to-back MVP awards, and the Yankees had just won the World Series. When that cello pack rolled out of the Topps factory this pack rolled out of the Topps Factory, we didn't have the Inernet, hadn't landed on the moon yet, and gas was 31 cents per gallon!

If you want to join our vintage pack breaks, we have many available. Just a few of our vintage pack breaks include a 1975 Topps baseball rack pack, 1971 OPC baseball, 1970 Topps basketball, and more!

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When you check out for a spot on the site, the price you see is the price you pay. Taxes and shipping are included! Your cards always come protected in holders. The last time you mailed a package out had to have set you back more than three bucks, right? If you buy a $3.00 spot, you get your card holdered and shipped for that price.

Lack of product in stores has been a problem; we see the same empty shelves that you do. If you can't find cards, Vintage Breaks is your solution.

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At Vintage Breaks, we have our main breaking show in New Jersey (The North), to go with our night owls in the South (Georgia), and the West (Arizona). Our newest show, VB Mid-West, is ready with your brunch-time breaks now live to help get our breaks to fit YOUR schedule! 

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If you have sealed wax, vintage or modern, that you are considering selling, contact us today to discuss or get our industry-leading purchase offer.  We're always interested in both sealed product of both sport and non-sport.  Whether you have that pack of 1977 Star Wars, that rare 1955 Bowman cello pack, a wax box of 1984 Topps football, Pokémon, or 2019 Panini National Treasures basketball you'd like to sell, we'd love to hear from you!

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