Card Show in Horb: Muhammad Ali decorates the coveted trading card with a piece of his trousers – Horb & surroundings – Schwarzwälder Bote
Card Show in Horb Muhammad Ali decorates his coveted trading card with a piece of his trousers
Peter Morlok 03.11.2024 – 11:44 am
They invited people to the second card show in Quartier 77: the Schwenningen dealer Ahmed El Dsoki and the innkeeper and hobby dealer Johannes Kiefer. Photo: Morlok
Horber Quartier 77 is becoming an insider tip for card collectors. A card show took place on Saturday – with such success that further collector events are to follow.
In the early 1960s, anyone who wanted the card with the likeness of Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips had to hand over at least one Fritz Walter and one Max Morlock in order to get the coveted trading card of the racing driver who died in an accident in 1961. Or find someone who only collected footballers and wanted to get rid of their racing driver.
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And the entire collectors market works exactly according to this principle, which can also be loosely applied to stamps or any other collecting area.
The motives, the themes and the names of the protagonists change over time, but the basic idea of the providers remains the same. Thematic collectors’ pictures – for example the Football World Cup – are brought onto the market via surprise bags or other distribution channels (collection points, nut slices, cigarette packs, etc.) and everyone who starts collecting these pictures hopes to get their album completely full.
The Italian company Panini was one of the first to recognize this market and has since been considered the epitome of scrapbooks and the associated stickers. What began in 1961 with flower pictures, led to success through football and was continued in the 1980s with Captain Future on anime figures, is now a global collecting area, with countless variants that today only real specialists can really get a handle on.
Rarities and exchange with dealers
The Internet has long since established itself as a trading platform for trading card professionals, but the best way to look at the goods live and in color, to exchange information about quality and known quantities, and perhaps to find one or two rarities is at a collector’s fair such as the “Card Show”, to which the Schwenningen dealer Ahmed El Dsoki, together with “Quartier 77” innkeeper and hobby card dealer Johannes Kiefer, invited people to “Quartier 77” on Saturday.
It was the second event of its kind in Horb and for a few hours “Quartier 77” was transformed into the colorful world of Panini NFL special edition boxes, Disney or fantasy cards, Pokémon and football stars. Strong marketing packaging names such as the “2024 Panini NFL Trading Cards Score A Treat Halloween Bundle” or, as the cards are now called with other bright names, attracted collectors and buyers.
120 euros for a Kai Havertz
A Haarlan in a Manchester City jersey was available for 70 euros, for a Kai Havertz you had to pay 120 euros and for a Boba Fett from the Star Wars series you had to pay a mere 225 euros. Dennis Kirstein from Leinfelden offered a super-limited card with an original autograph and a piece of Muhammad Ali’s trousers that wasn’t quite as cheap. He and his buddy Thomas Albert are completely dedicated to the NFL and a little bit of Disney and have been on the market as the Cardshow Dudes for years.
Part-time, of course, because in their opinion you can’t make a living from this story. This is also how Philip Gutknecht sees it, who traveled to Horb from the Swiss canton of Argau to present his treasures and perhaps exchange or buy one or two cards. He, who was there with his girlfriend, was not the only Swiss couple at the Horber Card Show. A couple from the Zurich area also met up with like-minded people here.
Organizer is satisfied
Johannes Kiefer was already very satisfied at the halfway point of this second card show. “It is an event that needs to grow. It is a small but fine niche event that has so far mainly thrived on the community of dealers and collectors. “What we are organizing here is more of an insider meeting that will gradually get around and attract more and more visitors,” says the hobby card collector.
He also chatted a bit and admitted that you always have to be willing to take a bit of risk when buying boxes and bags. “If you’re lucky, you’ll get something, if not, you’ll have something to play with or exchange.” A visitor from Eutingen experienced that this is the case when he bought three English-language Pokémon bags from Ahmed El Dsoki, each containing seven cards for five euros each. First bag open – nothing. Second bag open – nothing. Third bag open – a beaming face. One of the cards was a real bargain and the 15 euros were recouped.
Looking forward to the next card show
The boy was happy, as were the traders who had come, especially since they all saw the whole thing as a cool hobby. The organizing team Kiefer and El Dsoki are already looking forward to the next card show in Quartier 77. And in Horb there is now one more trading card expert.
