Quote:
Originally Posted by Zach Wheat
Congrats, IndyDave. What were the hardest panels to collect?
|
Thanks Zach.
I went back through the old want lists on my computer and found these were last ones I obtained.
The 1979 Murphy/Matlack/Bochte panel was by far the hardest. There have only been a few hit eBay in the last year and all went for over $200.
The next two hardest were ones I quickly jumped on Buy It Now offers for $99 earlier this year
1976 - 31/32/33 Danny Darwin / Fritz Peterson / Rod Carew
1978 - 145/146/147 - Lyman Bostock / Gary Carter / Ron Blomberg
The other one my last four I got for $40
1975 - 85/86/87 Dave Kingman/ Ed Herrmann / Ralph Garr.
The fivew before that were all in the $40 - $45 range
1975 Dwight Evans / Ken Holtzman / Cesar Cedeno
1976 - 34/35/36 Carlos May / Tom Seaver / Brooks Robinson
1976 - Johnny Bench / Luis Tiant / Dwight Evans
1978 - 28/29/30 Bob Watson / Bob Boone / Reggie Smith - This was only $17 - with a Bob Boone autograph?
1979 - 97/98/99 Jim Sundberg / Bob Horner / Ruppert Jones
I finished the 1977 set long before the other years.
I'm sure there are a few harder ones I acquired long ago - whether at a show in the 70's or 80's or off eBay. And I could probably have acquired a few of my last four cheaper if I had been willing to spend. For the longest time I didn't want to go over $25 or $30.
I've elected to store mine in one pocket pages, with four panels (two each direction) per page. I lay the binder flat on my shelf.
The lot I recentlly acquired came in a binder with all the panels in three pocket sheets. All the panels were cut right down to the line.
The panels I collected as a kid, had much larger cuts - the only ones we cut on the lines were from Ho Ho boxes because the lines were right on the box edges. I decided not to cut down all the ones I had an many of the one I purchased were also outside the lines.