Japanese Sumo Wrestling Cards and Menko
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
BBM Sumo Wrestling Card Lot- Christmas in September!!
I recently picked up a ~2500-card lot of assorted BBM Japanese sumo wrestling from 1997-2003 and was taking a gamble on getting anything I needed and filling in some holes. I almost forgot about the shipment as I had it shipped by boat over from Japan which takes about 6-7 weeks. Not too bad, but the box was pretty beat up when it arrived. Fortunately JAUCE did a great job of packing and everything arrived okay including the pounds of BBM cards. Most significantly with this shipment, I was able to complete some base sets and pick up some of the insert cards from these early BBM sets as well. In 2004, BBM stopped putting insert cards in packs and stuck with just base cards in the sets. It was this way until 2013 when signature cards first appeared in the BBM sumo sets and the signature cards have been a staple ever since. So these early insert cards are hard to find needless to say. I normally don't chase insert cards and it was one of the reasons I got out of the hobby originally back in the mid 1990s, but I take an exception to the sumo BBM inserts as there are only a handful per set and I was really chasing more base sets and these happened to be in the auction as well.....bonus. Normally, I wouldn't outright buy the cards at auction. The nice thing about picking up all these cards is I was able to correct some of the checklists in the my book (Sumo Menko and Card Checklist) which will be reflected in the 4th edition that I plan on releasing sometime later this year or early next year. The one downside is that I am left with a fair amount of doubles that I am going to have to unload somehow...hopefully eBay will be kind to me. If anyone wants any give me a holler.....I'll give you a good deal on any that you want. I should have enough material to do about 4-5 posts and will start with the 1997 BBM-Modern set this weekend once I get done sorting everything.
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LOL, I love buying lots like that. A couple of times I have bought big BBM lots (like 3000 cards I think) for ridiculously low prices just to see what I would get, its fun to sort through them (though in one of them I got a lot composed entirely of the team sets with massive duplication of 8-9 cards each, so its hit and miss).
ReplyDeleteI would probably do that more often if I had the room. Did the binders come with those? That is a pretty cool bonus if they did!
It is surprising what is unloaded sometimes on Yahoo Auctions. Normally the cost is too prohibitive, but I couldn't pass this up. Most of the cards only had one double is all. The rest were just single cards. Yeah, those three binders did come with the auction and they are actual quite nice. As you can see, they are 4-ring binders, but fortunately there were plenty of Ultra Pro pages that came with them for 4-ring binders.
ReplyDeleteI know next to nothing about the sport or these cards, but I like the look of those cards in the binder at the bottom of the photo.
ReplyDeleteThat set is a special BBM supplemental release from the year 2000 and shows all the top ranked wrestlers in their kesho-mawashi (ceremonial aprons) that they wear for the ring-entrance ceremony. There are 45 cards in the set: 40 regular, 4 gold inserts and 1 Short Print. All opened sets that I have seen are missing the Short Print card...I guess people sold that one or kept that....many probably only bought the set just for that card....which is weird since ever set had one so it's not like it was any more rare than the other 44 cards. There were 4000 sets of these produced. I've heard there is a set from 2001 as well, but I have yet to see any cards from that surface at auction.
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