Upper Deck French Boxes...

[k13]

Remember these were huge in the 90s till the cronies at Upper Deck printed more and flooded the market.

Eventually they had the same value as the English version.

Looking at PSA pop reports there's a huge disparity in population for the french 90-92 ud rookies.

Also there's barely any French wax boxes for sale.

Did it all dry up? Was the reprint not as huge as initially thought? Are people not listing them thinking they are still $10 a box?

The Jagr looks like it has 5% of the population of OPC premier..

Thoughts..

[glen87]

do people today even know their is a difference in those?

i found a couple instances on ebay where french boxes are available or have been sold without noting they are the french version.

[rohara99]

I collect all the 90's things and I have zero desire to own the french versions. In fact when I starting adding to my graded 90's rc collection a couple months ago I avoided the french copies.

[k13]

I collect all the 90's things and I have zero desire to own the french versions. In fact when I starting adding to my graded 90's rc collection a couple months ago I avoided the french copies.

Jagr is $500 now in French psa.

If pop report does not swell up they should easy be $1000.

[k13]

There's a box that sold for $200 cad recently.

If 1989 UD baseball can sell high then..

[Archangel1775]

There were numerous cases available for $420 plus shipping last summer. If you didnt get in then, looks elsewhere.

[Bigduga]

Yup...i bought a small boatload of 90/91 and 91/92 UD French at like 25 dollars a box to pull rookies out of in like...July - they were everywhere.

I would imagine there’s a ton of French jagrs and bures and haseks about to hit the grading queue...check the pops in about six months.

[mcwildcats]

I need to dig out how many of the French UD boxes I own. I bought a bunch years ago and still have them all sealed. Also have several OPC Premier boxes and factory sets along with a bunch of sealed Canadian Score (who doesn't have that?).

[k13]

If all the cases/boxes get opened they'll just be less of them out there.

Plus you might only get a few PSA 10s of jagr per case.
So pop won't get that much bigger.

The English one is way higher and Jagr is still setting new records.

[k13]

I have some boxes. Wondering why so little left if they supposedly made a tons of it.

Barely any here locally on marketplace.

[Bigduga]

I have some boxes. Wondering why so little left if they supposedly made a tons of it.


Because most people that have been sitting on it don’t realize it’s suddenly selling for 8x what it did a couple months ago.

[mcwildcats]

Because most people that have been sitting on it don’t realize it’s suddenly selling for 8x what it did a couple months ago.Whoa, is that so? Me off to check eBay completed sales:

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[valleynuckfan]

Whoa, is that so? Me off to check eBay completed sales:

https://media.giphy.com/media/U3OMplvODpSNMxiwmK/giphy.gif
I was selling '90 OPCP boxes in the spring for $185/box and was pretty happy about it....now it's pushing $400. Yeesh!

[mcwildcats]

I was selling '90 OPCP boxes in the spring for $185/box and was pretty happy about it....now it's pushing $400. Yeesh!
Man, I just checked and that's what I saw on those. Love to see that. I think I bought mine a long time ago around $100 or so each. Looks like the Hi-Number UD French are all over the place ($50-80 or so). Pretty sure I bought what I have of those for $15-20 or so many years ago.

[davis20009]

Check the Upper Deck PSA cards from 1990 and 1991 and make sure that they are actually the English versions or if PSA screwed up and but a French card in. Over the years I have bought 2 different Upper Deck RCs thinking I was buying the English version in PSA 10 only to find when the card arrived that while the PSA 10 label was stating it was the regular Upper Deck card it unfortunately had the French version of the card encapsulated.

Here is a John LeClair RC I have with this problem.

https://i.postimg.cc/qzC2HhrX/Leclair-French-label-wrong.jpg (https://postimg.cc/qzC2HhrX)

https://i.postimg.cc/9D5ZmmF3/Leclair-French-label-wrong-b.jpg (https://postimg.cc/9D5ZmmF3)

(Occasionally PSA puts Topps cards in 1968-1989 O-Pee-Chee hockey labels as well and vice versa) Here is a 1980 O-Pee-Chee card I have in a Topps labeled holder

https://i.postimg.cc/nX2zypXG/1980-Dave-Maloney-Error.jpg (https://postimg.cc/nX2zypXG)

[PRoy33Collector]

I was selling '90 OPCP boxes in the spring for $185/box and was pretty happy about it....now it's pushing $400. Yeesh!

I bought one for $139 from BBCE in the summer. So glad I pulled the trigger on it seeing those prices now.

[k13]

Picking up two more locally.

Are these bricked when you open?
Been a while since I cracked some.

[Bigduga]

Picking up two more locally.

Are these bricked when you open?
Been a while since I cracked some.

If by bricked you mean stuck together - no. None of them are glossy enough to stick together. There’s a lot of fuzzy edges in early UD, and you’ll get whatever surface you open them on absolutely covered with flakes of foil-paper that’s brittle from having sat thirty years...but surface wise the 90/91 and 91/92 UD are still way good.

You’re also going to get a pack or two in every box with a pie-crust short edge because a card got crimped with the pack. (I got a pie-crust Canada Cup Lindros this summer) And centering is generally susceptible to being early-90s atrocious.