Dean's Cards Top 10 Holiday Items

By Dean Hanley
Owner and Founder of Dean's Cards

Having trouble finding a gift for the Holiday Season? Here are some great gift ideas!

10. Every day Discounts.- We offer a volume discount on products that give you up to 20% off your order total.

 9. 1909 Topping and Company Detroit Tigers Post Cards Near Complete Set- This set is a rare find. It is only missing one card. It is one of the highest PSA graded sets of its kind.

8. Sports Illustrated Covers for the "Man Cave"

7. One of Baseballs greatest hitters, "Stan the Man" Musial.

6. Non Sports Cards. We have a high selection of non-sports cards. Want to see what we have? Click here!

5. Dean's Cards Gift Certificate. Makes a great stocking stuffer! .

4. 1950's and 60's Cardinals Team Sets. Not your favorite team? No worries! Head on over to our Team Page too view all the teams from your childhood!

3. 1969 Topps Baseball Master Set. Very hard to find. We have three different conditions in stock!

2. 1950's Complete Baseball Sets. We have a great selection of years and conditions.

1. 1960's Topps Baseball Near Complete Sets. They are great for anyone who likes to piece together a set.





 Dean's Cards offers a 100% Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee on all purchases. Just contact us within ten days of the purchase date and we will refund your money or, when possible, replace the cards.
Dean Hanley, founder and owner of DeansCards.com, is considered one of the foremost experts on the subject of vintage baseball cards, other sports and non-sports cards and has a regular column in the Sports Collectors Digest and publishes articles on his blog.
Dean has also written two books on vintage sports cards: The Bubble Gum Card War: The Great Bowman & Topps Sets from 1948 to 1955 and Before There Was Bubble Gum: Our Favorite Pre-World War I Baseball Cards. Both are available in eBook and paperback form.

1969 Topps Baseball Complete Master Set- 7.5

By: Dean Hanley,
Founder and Owner; Deans Cards

We have recently hand built a 1969 Topps Baseball Complete Master Set. This set consists of 702 cards, whereas the complete set has 664 Cards. There are 38 variation cards in the master set. This set also contains the last card for Mickey Mantle during his playing days.

 This particular set features multiple rookie and star cards. When this set was first introduced it was issued in 7 series. These cards were sold in wax packs, rack packs and cello packs.

The Fronts of these cards are surrounded by a white boarder. The front has the players name and position written in a circle that is placed on the upper right hand side. The pink backs are laid out horizontally and feature a biography, stats and a cartoon pictured.

The most famous and toughest variations to find in this set are the White Variations. For it to be a white variation the first and last name must both be in white lettering. In the non-master set you will find the last name on the card to be in yellow. It is said that these variations were made due to an ink problem during the printing process.

The variation cards that are the hardest to find are the most famous. These cards are #440 Willie McCovey, #440 Gaylord Perry and #500 Mickey Mantle. The Mickey Mantle card is the most expensive variation card in the series.

Since the Variation cards are so hard to find, it is very hard to build a Master Set. With our inventory of over 1 million cards we were able to put together a Near Mint Plus (7.5) Set. This is a one of a kind set that you are not going to find anywhere else.

 If you have any questions about this set, or if you are interested in any custom built vintage set please contact us.
 Here is a breakdown of this rare set.

 The High Dollar Cards in this set include:
• 1969 Topps #500 B Mickey Mantle: 4.5 - VG/EX+
• 1969 Topps #260 Reggie Jackson: 7 - NM
• 1969 Topps #500 A Mickey Mantle: 6 - EX/MT
• 1969 Topps #485 B Gaylord Perry: 7 - NM
• 1969 Topps #533 Nolan Ryan: 6 - EX/MT
• 1969 Topps #501 B Tony Gonzalez: 7 - NM
• 1969 Topps #95 Johnny Bench: 7 - NM • 1969 Topps #454 B Phillies Rookies - Larry Colton / Don Money: 7 - NM
• 1969 Topps #471 B Ted Savage: 7 - NM
 • 1969 Topps #505 B Bob Bolin: 7 - NM
• 1969 Topps #491 B Twins Rookies - Jerry Crider / George Mitterwald: 7 - NM
• 1969 Topps #250 Frank Robinson: 8 - NM/MT

Below is the set breakdown by grade:
Number of Cards in Set 702
Average Grade - Unweighted 7.57 - NM+
Average Grade - Weighted by Value 7.46 - NM+
Grade Breakdown
NM/MT 437
EX/MT 40
NM 209
EX 3
VG 1
VG/EX+ 1
 MINT 5
NM/MT+ 4
NM+ 1

Total Value of Cards in Set $26,471.41

Dean's Cards offers a 100% Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee on all purchases. Just contact us within ten days of the purchase date and we will refund your money or, when possible, replace the cards.

Dean Hanley, founder and owner of DeansCards.com, is considered one of the foremost experts on the subject of vintage baseball cards, other sports and non-sports cards and has a regular column in the Sports Collectors Digest and publishes articles on his blog.

Dean has also written two books on vintage sports cards: The Bubble Gum Card War: The Great Bowman & Topps Sets from 1948 to 1955 and Before There Was Bubble Gum: Our Favorite Pre-World War I Baseball Cards. Both are available in eBook and paperback form.

Back by Popular Demand: Volume Customer Discounts

By Dean Hanley
Founder and Owner, Deans Cards

Back By Popular Demand are our Volume Discounts for customer orders. You have spoken and we have listened. Stop on by our website to see how low our prices have gone. Here is a summary of how our discounts work.

The Primary Mission Statement of Dean’s Cards, or our purpose for being, is to “make vintage card collecting fast, easy and fun”. Two of the many things we do to enable this is to “offer conservatively graded vintage cards at competitive prices”. Another goal that we have is “to strive to stock at least one of every vintage card online, in each of the popular grades in stock”. 

The Dean’s Cards Surplus Inventory Discount, often referred to simply as “Inventory Discounts”, help us to achieve each of these objectives.

Inventory Discounts  

The idea of the Dean’s Cards Inventory Discounts is simple. Dean’s Cards has over a million cards online. We buy and sell thousands of vintage cards each week. The as the quantity of an “item” (a card, in a particular grade) in the Dean’s Cards Inventory increases, it triggers a higher Inventory Discount and lowers the net price of the item by 10%.


When Dean’s Cards decreases or sells out of a certain item, the Net Price of that item increases. The higher price is then reflected in our Dean’s Cards Bid Software, which allows us to bid more aggressively and replace the items with low quantities. We strive to be your “one stop shop” for vintage cards.

The Inventory Discount applies only to the cards from before 1981. It also applies to all magazines.

  
Volume Discounts on Customer Orders

As the dollar amount or volume of your order increases, so does the percentage of your volume discount. Volume Discounts begin at $50 and top out at 20% when the invoice amount (net total after Inventory Discounts are applied) reach $1000. Volume Discounts are based off the Total Net Price of the items in an Order, before tax or shipping charges.

 Getting Dean’s Best Price

With these two discounts, you can rest assured that you are getting our best prices. You also get the benefit of knowing that we do not give any other discounts, to anyone, on any product - under any circumstance. Dean’s Cards was founded in 2001 and we have never made an exception to this policy.

The reason for this policy is simple: Our customers know that they are getting our best price, so they know that they do not have to contact us to negotiate on every order. This is all part of making buying from Dean’s Cards fast,easy and fun. From our perspective, with the amount of business that we do on a daily basis, we would be overwhelmed by the number of inquiries.

If you have any questions please contact us.

Dean Hanley, founder and owner of DeansCards.com, is considered one of the foremost experts on the subject of vintage baseball cards, other sports and non-sports cards and has a regular column in the Sports Collectors Digest and publishes articles on his blog.

Dean has also written two books on vintage sports cards: The Bubble Gum Card War: The Great Bowman & Topps Sets from 1948 to 1955 and Before There Was Bubble Gum: Our Favorite Pre-World War I Baseball Cards. Both are available in eBook and paperback form.