Your Collecting Focus

[frankhardy]

I have three main areas of focus, but one clearly rises to the top.

The two areas that take a back seat are base Topps Cardinals signed cards and Topps base complete sets.

My signed Cardinals album has over 800 signed cards in it from 1952 to present.

My other "back seat" focus is complete Topps sets. I have them all the way back to 1973, including Traded sets.

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My main focus, though, is my Cardinals team set collection. I started in 2002 with just wanting to get the base Topps cards from 1952 to present. Once I had that completed in about a year, I branched out and it hasn't stopped. Since I have branched out to Topps test issues and misc Topps inserts, my collection has almost come to a hault becuase the ones I need are very rare.

My team sets consists of 20 albums. I have an album for base Topps for each decade, plus albums for different brands and such.

Here is what I have -

1951 to 2011 Topps (base and traded/update)

1948 to 1955 Bowman

1989 to 2010 Bowman

1960, 1961, 1963 Fleer

1981 to 2007 Fleer with Updates

1981 to 2005 Donruss with The Rookies

1988 to 1998 Score

1989 to 2009 Upper Deck

2001 to 2011 Topps Heritage

1996 to 2010 Topps Chrome and Refractors (I only need a few 2001 refractors commons for completion. Those are hard to find. I have all the Pujols' though!).

2001 to 2007 Bowman Heritage

1951 to mid 1990's Topps Test Issues, Inserts, and misc. This includes sets that are too many to list.

1981 to 1993 Fleer misc This includes sets that are too many to list.

1983 to 1995 Donruss misc (except for 1992 DK Super Felix Jose which is super rare). This includes sets that are too many to list.

1947-66 Exhibits

1962 Exhibits Stat Back

1963 Exhibits Stat Back

1947 Bond Bread

1953 to 1955 Red Man

1952 Berk Ross

1961 to 1963 Post

1963 Jello

1970 to 1983 Kelloggs

1975 to 1979 Hostess

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Here is my want list in the Topps test issues category (most of these are pretty rare). Whatever Topps misc/test issue set is not listed below, if it is in the SCD catalog, I think I have it.

1973 Topps Comic Joe Torre
1972 Topps Candy Lids - Brock, Gibson, Torre, Carlton (? not sure if Cards uni or Phillies?)
1970 Topps Candy Lids Rich Allen
1970 Topps Cloth Vic Davillio
1969 Topps 4-in-1 (all Cardinals except Brock WS and Pinson, which I have)
1968 Topps 3D Curt Flood
1968 Topps Plaks - Cepeda, McCarver, checklist
1968 Topps Discs - Cepeda
1967 Topps Standups - Cepeda and McCarver
1967 Topps Punchouts - Cepeda and McCarver
1967 Topps Discs Cepeda
1966 Topps Punchouts - Flood
1964 Topps Rookie Banquet Julian Javier
1964 Topps Tatoo - (I have Boyer, but need Flood, Groat, and the logo)
1961 Topps Dice Game - Stan Musial (I will never, ever have this one. Would cost over $30,000 if I even found one)
1955 Topps Hocus Focus - Moon
1955 Topps Stamps - all Cardinals