Retsy Series 1 · Card 0348 · 90-CND

Patience Crystals

Science you can lick.

A kit with sugar packets, a plastic jar and strings for growing your own rock candy over two whole weeks.

Card no.: 0348 of 1,280
Set: 90s Candy · 90-CND
Year: 1990
Type: Rock candy growing kit
Found at: Educational toy store
Cost back then: $5.99 a kit

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Nostalgia7/10

Hype5/10

Weirdness4/10

Trade value4/10

The story · 1990

The story of Patience Crystals

Patience Crystals promised a science lesson and delivered a test of willpower. You dissolved the sugar in hot water with a grown-up's help, hung the strings in the jar, and waited. And waited. Every morning you checked for crystals. By week two, the window sill held a sticky jar of glittering purple rock candy and one very proud scientist.

Fun fact

At least one sibling in every house tried to eat the crystals on day three, and the arguments that followed were historic.

Six finishes

187 copies of Patience Crystals exist

Patience Crystals comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.

Patience Crystals, Retsy card 0348 in the Base finish — **Base**100 copies · Common

Patience Crystals, Retsy card 0348 in the Holo finish — **Holo**50 copies · Uncommon

Patience Crystals, Retsy card 0348 in the Laser finish — **Laser**25 copies · Rare

Patience Crystals, Retsy card 0348 in the Gold finish — **Gold**10 copies · Very rare

Patience Crystals, Retsy card 0348 in the Super Laser finish — **Super Laser**1 copy · 1 of 1

Patience Crystals, Retsy card 0348 in the Misprint finish — **Misprint**1 copy · 1 of 1

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