Willie Mays
 

What Willie Mays card is his rarest and/ or most abstract card produced?

BRIGGS MEATS 53/54

Not a card but there is only one 1968 Topps Willie Mays Plak known to exist.

darn rare
 

1961 Topps Dice game..... cant be many of those out there, maybe a handful

I know Nicolo has one but these are pretty darn rare. Rarer than 95% of his issues for sure. If it was a bit smaller (its 9x12) and fit a PSA slab I have no doubt it would be in the several thousands easily. Its a piece of art.

1964 Fortune shoes premium.

Ad from the April 1964 issue of Ebony Magazine.
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That's a beauty Lucas.

Trim it, the opinion sellers will give it a number, and you can sell it for a huge profit.

1971 bazooka numbered panel.

This is definitely high on the list. Only a handful remain, and it's one of the pieces that I'm still trying to find for my collection.

According to my notes, there are 4 that have been graded by PSA.

And since I'm always looking for an excuse to post rare Mays stuff, let's get the party started with this Dad's Cookies from 1959. Total PSA pop = 4

1954 Alaga Syrup Postcard Mays

PSA pop = 1

Thanks Doug, I would never be the one to cut any premium. I've seen a few original photos I've sold trimmed and entombed, they look so much worse. One of them just had a tiny border chunk missing and 75% of the border was completely cut off. And its not like they wouldn't have fit the case, the seller thinks people prefer that. I'd much rather have a 8x10 type 1 with a border issue than a 7.323492x9.44541 abomination that looks like it was through a cheap paper cutter.

*Sorry for the off topic*

1957 Knickerbocker Beer postcard

PSA pop = 1

I also have a raw one, so I suspect there are likely to be more out there.

1958 Hires Root Beer Test Set with tab

PSA pop = 3

1959 Bazooka complete box

Total PSA pop = 2

1960 Bazooka Complete Box

Total PSA pop = 1

I'm also aware of another raw version out in the wild.

1960 OPC tattoo

Total PSA pop = 2

1962 Jell-O Complete Box

Total PSA pop = 1

1962 Post Canadian Inserts Complete Panel

Total PSA pop = 1

Fred will have to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this one was included in boxes of sugar crisp cereal that were sold north of the border.

1963 Jell-O Complete Box

Total PSA pop = 2

I also happen to have the other one (although it is available for sale or trade).

64 Meadowgold Dairy Complete Panel

Total PSA pop = 8

I also have the blue, but not the brown. Always looking for the brown version!

1965 Bazooka Complete Box

Total PSA pop = 1

1969 Nabisco Team Flakes Complete panel

Total PSA pop = 4

"1961" Topps Dice Game

Total PSA pop = 3

I'm also aware of 1 more that's in a SGC slab

1966 Topps Punch Out test set

Total PSA pop = 2

Yep these perforated panels came INSIDE Sugar Crisp boxes in Canada. All the other cereals had the cards on the back of the box

Say Hey!
 

Here is one I have never seen another 1952 Giants team issued photo pack.

Hopefully someone can turn the photo right side up

1952 54 Briggs Meats
 

Most of the cards (not ads ) I have seen before. my feeling was either the 1964 Meadowgold Dairy which I have. the one I never ever saw offered in all my years collecting was the 1953/54 Briggs Meats - rum roll please - just bought one - YAY ..... actually its 53/54

Briggs
 

Yankees dodgers giants are 1953
Senators blank down the middle are 1953
Senators that say washington senators cards down the middle are 1954

Red Schoendienst - interesting person to collect... tough collecting someone where I cant spell his name LOL

No longer own one, but PSA only has about 80 graded and as a newspaper give-away in 1954, there can't be too many floating around. (one pictured is not mine)

And one more that I longer own, another newspaper give-away from 1958. Only 7 graded by PSA. (one pictured is not mine)

Congrats!!

Briggs Meats can definitely be tough. Although PSA does have them down for pop 11, plus I’m sure there’s some in SGC holders out there.

Looks like the 1958 SF Call Bulletin (with stub) to me.

Unless I’m reading the PSA pop charts wrong, they have it down for pop 45 with the stub, and only pop 7 without the stub. Of course, it seems like those that have the stub could be modified to lose the stub pretty easily.

I would have thought the "no stub" version would be considered trimmed or altered and not given a numberical grade. Is that how they handle Zeenuts as well - with coupon and with out?

Can’t say that I know much about how PSA approaches Zeenuts. Naturally, our friends at the TPGs tend to make a lot of judgment calls like this. It does seem like part of the story here has to be that there is perforation where the bottom stub was intended to be detached. So I guess that means it’s not necessarily trimmed, but rather just used for its intended purpose?

SGC gives a numerical grade to the 1958 Hires Root Beer test cards that no longer have their tabs:

nice postcard - nebver saw that one - love it

Some great stuff, Nicolo; never seen some of the postcards before.

Just for fun, let’s add these 64 Sports Heroes complete sheets.

The Mays singles have a pop 3 with PSA, so I suspect the complete sheets are similarly rare. Thus far, PSA has rejected my requests to slab the complete sheets. But maybe they’ll relent someday, and we’ll get more of them to come out of old collections.

1967 raleys supermarket premium

From a 1 day meet and greet at sacramento area supermarket.

1963 lever brothers military panel with mantle!

Both crazy rare pieces haven’t seen another since I found these

Debating selling them, but can’t even come up with a price!! Open to offers though!

You say you've never seen another since posting yours? I recall posting a photo of an autographed Raleys's to another thread you started here two years ago or so... See:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...ight=Raley%27s

I mean like around on eBay and stuff. There was another when I posted, haven’t seen one in a couple years.

LOVE the Alaga PC - you selling it

Willie Mays
 

Have to save several last name searches for this reason lol.

Yeah...no.

It look a long time to finally track it down, and I had to pay a healthy sum to acquire it. Now that I have it, it's proudly on display in my "forever" collection.

Maybe someday after I retire, and need to start selling off my collection to fund my retirement, then I'll let it go. But that's still a long ways off, as I'm still relatively young.

Mays
 

yes, were all relatively young, and relatively in good shape , and relatively have all our hair ,and.... LOL

HA.

And hell yes!!! Never gonna give any of those up.

Luckily, around these parts, 47 still counts as "relatively young".