Man, the price of a reprint.......

[ALR-bishop]

I am mostly a post war collector and have been collecting since 1957. My main focus has been Topps and Fleer. I have the Topps sets, 1948 and 1951 to 2015, and Fleer 1923 (work in progress), and 1959 to 2007.

I was born in 1950 and never had personal interaction with the Bowman sets when they were active, and for a long time did not consider putting them together. Fritsch was selling reprints of those sets for 48 through 52 ( not sure if reprints for 53 to 55 exist or not), and I bought them just to become familiar with them some. Since then I have put together the Bowman run, 48 to 55. But I still have the reprints. I would give them away if I knew someone who just wanted them as reprint sets

[Frank A]

Hey, on the high side it's at least a 9.

[tschock]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

I am mostly a post war collector and have been collecting since 1957. My main focus has been Topps and Fleer. I have the Topps sets, 1948 and 1951 to 2015, and Fleer 1923 (work in progress), and 1959 to 2007.

I was born in 1950 and never had personal interaction with the Bowman sets when they were active, and for a long time did not consider putting them together. Fritsch was selling reprints of those sets for 48 through 52 ( not sure if reprints for 53 to 55 exist or not), and I bought them just to become familiar with them some. Since then I have put together the Bowman run, 48 to 55. But I still have the reprints. I would give them away if I knew someone who just wanted them as reprint sets

Al,

PM Sent.

All,
As an FYI... I know at least the '53 was reprinted (both color and BW issue) as smaller size cards rather than the original size.

[EldoEsq]

I am a set builder, but just got into it relatively recently after a long hiatus. I built the Topps 73, 75, 78, 79, 80 and 81 sets (I know...not very vintage for most of you!) I am in the process of building the 72, 76 and 77 as well.

But I just started on 2 new ambitious projects...the 1953 Bowman and the 1960 Topps. I have made a dent into the Bowman set, and I plan to store it in an album for easy display.

I actually just figured out why I plan to purchase a reprint set of the Bowman. The key cards are going to be graded, and those cannot be displayed in the album. Instead of having a hole in an album page where, say, Pee Wee Reese would be, I can plug the hole with the reprint.

If someone is giving away a '53 Bowman reprint set, let me know!!!

[dabigyankeeman]

Originally Posted by EldoEsq

I actually just figured out why I plan to purchase a reprint set of the Bowman. The key cards are going to be graded, and those cannot be displayed in the album. Instead of having a hole in an album page where, say, Pee Wee Reese would be, I can plug the hole with the reprint.

Here is something to try for those key cards, i have done it a few times with great results. Scan in card, crop it to be just the card without the holder, and print it out on photo paper lifesize. You then have an exact duplicate of your card, wrinkles, creases, defects, everything - then put that scanned duplicate in your plastic sheet in your album. The ones I have done, people look at the sheet and they dont even realize they are looking at a scan on one of the cards!!! Also, you know you are looking at your exact card, not some perfect reprint.

[Eggoman]

Originally Posted by dabigyankeeman

Scan in card, crop it to be just the card without the holder, and print it out on photo paper lifesize...

+1

EXACTLY what I do - Lets me look at my T205 Near Set without having to dig out all of the graded stuff..

[EldoEsq]

Originally Posted by dabigyankeeman

Here is something to try for those key cards, i have done it a few times with great results. Scan in card, crop it to be just the card without the holder, and print it out on photo paper lifesize. You then have an exact duplicate of your card, wrinkles, creases, defects, everything - then put that scanned duplicate in your plastic sheet in your album. The ones I have done, people look at the sheet and they dont even realize they are looking at a scan on one of the cards!!! Also, you know you are looking at your exact card, not some perfect reprint.

Thanks for the tip...thats exactly what I'll do!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by dabigyankeeman

Here is something to try for those key cards, i have done it a few times with great results. Scan in card, crop it to be just the card without the holder, and print it out on photo paper lifesize. You then have an exact duplicate of your card, wrinkles, creases, defects, everything - then put that scanned duplicate in your plastic sheet in your album. The ones I have done, people look at the sheet and they dont even realize they are looking at a scan on one of the cards!!! Also, you know you are looking at your exact card, not some perfect reprint.

Thanks for sharing good info!!