Bonham's needs to have an auction of items from Bonham

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I can’t imagine a more iconic game than SMB3. It was such a step up from SMB 1 and 2 with Racoon Suit power ups that allow you to fly, unique level designs and worlds to explore, amazing new graphics and catchy tunes that many of you probably still recognize today.

While SMB3 may be “common” in sealed video game collecting terms (total WATA population of 396 as of 08/2024), it’s cultural impact and amazing box art is akin to a Fleer 86 Jordan in terms of popularity and importance in the hobby. With the condition grade of 10 A++, it’s the only one on the pop report.

A true grail in the video game collecting space, whether you collect graded sealed games or just loose carts.

Nintendo World Championships (NWC) was a nationwide video-game competition held across 29 U.S. cities in 1990. The more common gray carts typically go for $50-75k nowadays ant auction and have around 100 confirmed owned out of 350 that are numbered.

The Gold NWC cartridge was given away exclusively via a Nintendo Power contest. The gold shells were custom-fitted with existing NWC gameplay boards, and a label was applied. The giveaway for the gold NWC cartridge was limited to only 26 and only 13 are confirmed to be owned.

The latest public sale of a NWC Gold was a CGC 4.0 copy without the label for $207k. Previous to that sale, the last public sale was in 2015 on eBay for $26k.

This will be quick. The 35 card 1955 Barratt Mickey's Sweet Cigarette set was released, as best understood by me, to be a single card with candy cigarettes. Based on the two pack "wrappers" that I have in my possession (front/back images attached), I would estimate that 4-5 candy cigarettes were placed in these packs. The goal of Barratt was to sell candy and the aspect of a card was a novelty. Again, my opinion.
What's interesting is that the other item shown is a box that I understand to contain the 1957 Mickey's Sweet Cigarette cards (50 card checklist) whereby the orange box likely contained 10-12 candy cigarettes, with a card packed inside.
I have no more specific information than this other than examining the packaging.
If the community could locate and identify for me in-tact packaging of either the 1955 or the 1957 Mickey's Sweet Cigarette packs, that would be fantastic.

Cheers.