1962 Topps Poor/Low Grade Set

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by gonefishin

James, Jim Hoskins here. I have slowly been building vintage sets for centuries now. I rarely sell any cards from 69 and older. Subsequently, I have kept a lot of duplicates. I probably have a couple hundred 62 duplicates. I'm not interested in selling them, but I'm open to trading for a few cards I still need in my 50s sets, or 61 high numbers. Heck, I still need 192, 62s to complete my set - so if you have 62 dups maybe we could just exchange. If your open to trading any of your duplicates, PM me and let me know. I'll have to sort my duplicate 62s, as I currently don't even know what I have.

Hi Jim! Many, many thanks...but...I just yesterday gave my duplicates to a friend at work. Bad timing for me, as always.

[G1911]

If either of you need

66, 77, 117, 120 (green tint), 162, 171, 174, 191, 193, 273, 367, 476, 537

PM me your address and I will mail the ones you need for free.

[cesarcap]

At first, I didn't love the 62 set which I started in 86 when I traded my brother his Mantle #200 for Chales Barkey's Fleer RC. I still have it and got it graded about 30 yrs ago (PSA 3). Shortly after my sons were born--say 2010/11 we got into collecting. They liked the current players of course but I decided to finish the 62 set which is all over the place but mostly mid-grade, like most of my collection.

My Uecker RC got graded 7 but I also have beaters since I wanted finish the set and didn't want to pay $$$ for commons. Glad I finished it in 2015 or so....But press on, you can always upgrade later (or not), or move on to another year and set. And keep us updated.

[jingram058]

Yes, I can see the Rookie Parade cards infielders and most especially catchers, some of the Ruth subset cards, those are going to be a stumbling block. Never thought it would be that what you would think would be a common or easy card would command more money than Mantle. But that's the case. Card 594, Uecker, is several hundred dollars no matter how you slice it. I have the Mantle, and he didn't send me into the poorhouse. I'm going to have to figure out what to do when it comes to Mr. Uecker's card.

[mikemb]

I completed my 62 set about 10 years ago so the prices were not as high as now. Also got all the green tints and other variations.

Only thing I do not like that much is the abundance of hatless head shots due to expansion.

A few months ago I realized I had about 25 extra green tint cards so I decided to complete a second set of them by getting them from dealers/sellers who did not list them or realize they were green tints (or did not charge a premium). Down to 5 needed.

Mike