What: 2025 Historic Autographs Did You Know? trivia cards
Arrives: March 19
Box basics: Seven packs per box ... cut autos roughly one in four boxes (24 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs meshes a new release that's all about trivia with some past packs from its library, too, all in one spot where hits could arrive more often than normal thanks to those past packs.

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What: 2024 Pieces of the Past 1800s Kaleidoscope Edition
Arrives: Nov. 20
Box basics: Four hits per four-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
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What's buzz-worthy: This brand revisits the 1800s for a second time -- this one with plenty of foilboard flash -- via a collection packed with history and in some boxes redemptions for complete historical documents will be found.

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What: 2024 Topps Five Star baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 4
Box basics: Two autographs per box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (when live)

What's buzz-worthy: Five Star returns to the diamond for another year with just the basics in hand now -- teaser images you see above and then the checklist and odds also found above.

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What: 2024 Pieces of the Past 1800s Edition
Arrives: May 9
Box basics: Four hits per four-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This brand is back with a stacked lineup of cut autos and other memorabilia cards for a variety of historical figures found in every box.

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Knowing where to look for new items in your collection can be a challenge at times -- if you shop where many others do, you might not find rare gems and you might find plenty of things from one genre of collecting that you might not want or need.

But sometimes you might be surprised by what you can find via auction houses, which used to be the home of mostly vintage treasures. Not any more.

The 15 items you see above (click for a closer look) are from a wide array of the collecting world and they're all up for grabs right now via Crazy Uncle Auctions, a Harrison, N.Y.-based auction house.

Keep reading for a deeper look at five of them.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down the results here. Like this and want to see more -- or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The packs: 2009 Topps American Heritage (25 blister retail pack lot)
Where to buy: Click here

Packs per lot: 25
Cards per pack: 8
Cards per lot: 200
Base set completion: 92 of 125 (74 percent)
Duplicates: 57
Triplicates: 20
Quadruplicates: 6
Quintuplicates: 2
Sextuplicates: 1

Notables on base cards: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Amelia Earhart, Davy Crockett, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz, Alexander Hamilton, Paul Revere, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Thomas Edison, Samuel Morse, Eli Whitney, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Barbara Rose Johns, Cesar Chavez, Gutzon Borglum, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer, Thurgood Marshall, Robert F. Kennedy, P.T. Barnum, Joe Namath, George & Ira Gershwin, Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, Duke Ellington, Clara Bow, John D. Rockefeller, John Paul Getty, J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, John Deere, Frank Woolworth, Andrew Carnegie, Plymouth Rock, Constitution, George Washington, Louisiana Purchase, Emancipation Proclamation, Neil Armstrong

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour all day long ... this is Hour 2.

The box: 2017 Super Break The Bar Pieces of The Past
The cost: Click here

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

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What: 2017 Topps Transcendent Collection baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 13
Box basics: 53 autographs -- and plenty more -- per hand-crafted wooden box
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' high-end baseball brand -- what it calls "the pinnacle of high-end collecting" -- returns for another season with a tribute of sorts to 1987, a spotlighting of the newly crowned American League Rookie of the Year and a party invite that includes one of the biggest sluggers in baseball history.

So, what comes in a box? Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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