1956 Topps Hocus Focus Lot - Legendary

[toppcat]

Al-my research shows anything above #96 is a small card. The overall set number (in the black circle), I am 99% certain, matches on both sizes from #1-96, although the subset numbering varies.

I still need to see a few reverses on the smalls from three subsets to determine if 126 is the end point, which I now think it is based upon this auction listing.

[CharleyBrown]

Al,

Were you the winner of the lot? If you have a duplicate Jackie, I'll take it if it is for sale, regardless of condition.

Regarding the numbering: According to Lemke, the are 5 more baseball subjects in the 1955 series, and I'm assuming that there were more subjects in other subsets that year, which would give it 30 more cards than there were in the 1956 set.

Legendary had in their description that some of the cards were trimmed.. perhaps they got mixed up, and believed that the smaller 1955 cards were those that were trimmed? The Amelia Earhart (#113) is clearly smaller in the scan than the others. The Teddy Roosevelt (#58) is also smaller, though I'm not sure if that number corresponds with the 1955 set.

Babe Ruth, who is only in the 1955 set, is card #117.

Sure wish I knew that there were '55s in there, I would have kept bidding - silly on my behalf not to fully research it when I saw it come up for auction.

[Exhibitman]

Al, I believe that the Moore was a 1955-only card as it is a high number. The Marciano was in both sizes.

[CharleyBrown]

Looks like the Archie Moore was part of the Legendary lot as well. Hope you are able to get it Adam.

[Exhibitman]

Marciano too. It was a large one. Like to have that for sure. If I'm reading the tea leaves correctly, there is no large Moore card.

Does anyone else here besides me think it was kinda dumb to sell the cards from this set in one big lot? I'd have gone hard after the Marciano but didn't even bother bidding on the overall lot. Or at least do a set/lot bid and some individual lots and see what ends up making more money.

[toppcat]

Adam-you are correct-there should be no large Moore card or for any card from #97 up.

The lot definitely should have been broken down, I would have sold the smalls in a single lot, with any athletes separate and the panels as well. I think maybe if that had happened, some lots may have been too low valued for the auction but it still would have made a lot of sense to do so.

The auction though, has let me determine the subset totals in the small set. I have more at my blog http://toppsarchives.blogspot.com/2012/09/lucky-13.html but this is what I came up with:

[ALR-bishop]

Good info , Dave. Thanks for sharing