Why A 35 Year-Old American Flag Card Is the Hottest Thing in Collecting
Friday night at around 5 p. m. , I caved and bought a 1991 Score American Flag card (#737).
It was $7. 49 with shipping. A day earlier, when I first considered it, I could’ve had it for $4 total.
As of this writing, they are selling for $14 . I didn’t buy it out of a sense of patriotism or some nostalgia kick – I did it because Joe at StakX (unfortunately not one of the 4000 companies with an “x” in their name at The Hobby Awards ) started a thread on twitter trying to get people to buy the card and run up its price… just for fun. If J.
R. Fickle is down for nothing else, it’s a bit of cheap “comps” chaos. Here’s how it started: — — (@) Here’s when I decided to jump in on the fun: — — (@) And here is where we stand as of publication time, while we wait on Luke Combs to come through: — — (@) There was no real point to this, as far as I could tell, outside of just spending $7.
50 for some entertainment and getting a card that is otherwise sort of pointless in the grand scheme of things. So, as we like to do here , we just sent a note to Joe… and asked him. “ I saw someone post about the 1991 Score cards doing $200 in PSA 10,” he says.