1992 Wayne Gretzky Rookie Reprint OPC 25th Anniversary 12 Edmonton Oilers

Description: Extremely sweet official O-Pee-Chee 25th anniversary rookie reprint of Wayne Gretzky's rookie card. Not the original but an excellent and official reprint for those who do not have $3 million kicking around. There are reprints kicking around but this is an OFFICIAL reprint by the company that released the original so that is important. The HHA features many different themed historically curated collections, including the popular "Enforcer" series, all authenticated and graded. Browse this sellers items to see other HHA Legends of the Game collections and to purchase all or just your favorites players in the Enforcers series. Combined shipping is available if you buy more than one item, so check out my other cards, all graded cards. On the HHA grading and authentication company: The Hockey History Archive (HHA) is a new hobby card authenticating, grading, reclamation, historical collection, packaging and presentation service. We reclaim and regrade cards that investor-focused groups like PSA have, in our opinion, bumbled and failed to recognize the true collectible nature and historical value of. Most of their graders are young, trained internally, have no personal history or experience with sports cards, and frankly frequently arbitrarily grade cards in ways that baffle, make no sense, and show a reckless indifference and ignorance to what sports cards were intended to be. HHA is owned and operated by people who not only have degrees in history and historiography, but perhaps even more importantly have themselves been buying and collecting cards since they were kids, so we combine a historians eye and anthropological knowledge, with the personal lifelong experience of collecting trading cards that cannot be taught. You cannot teach the knowledge that comes from, for instance, being a kid in the 1970s buying cards for 10 and 25 cents a pack then flipping through gum-dust sprinkled cards while chewing on the usually awful gum and regarding every pack like wrapped Christmas presents and not knowing what treasures or hero might become a part of your collection as you flipped though your cards. And then watching over the decades as the industry and prices and quality all changed, transforming it from a street-level industry selling sports idols and dreams to kids, to today where we see cards selling for $20 a pack and mad rushes by money hungry card speculators who have robbed the industry from kids by making it largely financially inaccessible to kids and instead giving it to day traders and speculators many of whom do not even watch hockey or the sports they collect. HHA hopes to put some of the honesty and character back into collecting and finding that balance between building a valuable collection while not discarding cards that in their inception were never meant to be perfect and in fact much of their charm came from their simplicity and imperfection. HHA only number grades cards 8 through 10, they do not grade cards not worth collecting at all (will not even put their label on them), and all cards that other companies might grade 7 or 6 or lower, HHA simply grades G/VG and let the buyer decide beyond that. For collecting purposes even investment purposes the only important grades are 8 through 10, thus cards under that get G/VG or no grade at all. Slight imperfections do not get a card downgraded, 10 does not mean perfect, it means it is mint which means as you would expect to get it from a pack. Severe flaws like *extreme* off-center printing errors will get a card downgraded (not slight off-center because such imperfections are part of the history of trading cards). Our graders do not ask "is this card a perfect specimen suitable for high-end investing?" We ask, is this card in good collecting condition and how close is it to how you would expect a card to appear new in a pack?"

Price: 69 CAD

Location: Summerland, British Columbia

End Time: 2024-11-05T18:04:45.000Z

Shipping Cost: 6.81 CAD