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Sports card values can have a very wide range depending on the graded condition of the card. The 1991 Chipper Jones Topps Desert Shield card, for example, is worth about $400 when graded a 7 on a scale of 1-10. However, one graded a 9 on the same scale is worth close to $1,000.
Operation Desert Shield was in 1990. Operation Desert Storm only lasted 45 days (or 100 hours of actual fighting) and occurred in January and February of 1991. Desert Shield was a build up of military forces. Desert Storm was USING those military forces.
1991 Topps Desert Shield Dave Smith card number 215A 1991 Topps Desert Shield Dave Smith card number 215 has a book value of about $5.00 in Near Mint - Mint condition. Professionally graded cards will sell for more. Condition is important.Common flaws with baseball cards include: rounded edges, creases, off centered, and faded color. Any or all flaws will devalue the card significantly.
Desert Shield (1990) was a BUILDING UP of military forces; ultimately, for Desert Storm, which occurred in January of 1991, coalition forces reached over 900,000 people.
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1991 Topps Desert Shield Craig Biggio card number 565A 1991 Topps Desert Shield Craig Biggio card number 565 has a book value of about $15.00 in Near Mint - Mint condition. Professionally graded cards will sell for more. Condition is important. Common flaws with baseball cards include: rounded edges, creases, off centered, and faded color. Any or all flaws will devalue the card significantly.
A 1991 Topps Desert Shield Curt Young card number 473 has a book value of about $5.00 in near/mint -mint condition. Professionally graded cards will sell for more money than a non-graded card in the same condition. Condition is important. Common flaws with baseball cards include: rounded edges, creases, off centered, and faded color. Any or all flaws will devalue the card significantly. The 1991 Desert Shield cards wereonly made available to service men and women.
It became Operation Desert Storm.
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Not that I've heard of. answer: There is no card in that name but maybe you were referring to Big Shield Gardna.
Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm
Desert Shield was designed as an operation to protect Saudi Arabia from a possible Iraqi incursion, either by air or by land in late 1990 and early 1991. As Saudi Arabia supported Kuwaiti independence and was hosting UN Coalition troops, there was the strong possibility that Iraq's superior military could overwhelm Saudi defenses.