December Pick ups

[ALR-bishop]

I think before he retired Bob Lemke told me he had a framed uncut 1977 proof sheet in his office that had all of the 77 Proofs he had check listed in SCD on it. I think that sheet may have been auctioned off by SCD after he retired. I will ask him if he can chime in on what he knows about those proofs

[begsu1013]

please do! i'd love to know if any of them have a printed back to them.

from what I have gathered only blank backs exist.

edit: also dimension sizes. i would assume that they are all originally cut from sheets and dims would vary...

but this one and another seem to be just a bit skinnier than the reg sized cards.

of course if those other cards that were mentioned are even rarer, that might explain why this one is oc on the left?

who knows?!?!

gonna try to get him to sign it eventually and then send it off to sgc. it's a shame psa wont touch proofs.

[Bob Lemke]

The half-sheet (66) we had with the '77 proofs was, indeed, blank-back. I don't know of any '77 proofs with printed backs.

As for the number of Jackson/Orioles proofs extant, I tend to agree with KO, probably fewer than 10.

The half-sheet we had was auctioned after I left the company; I don't recall the details as to selling.

[ALR-bishop]

Even more legendary and scarce are the 3 1960 Proofs of Cimiloi, Hadley and Thronberry with different teams, but as I recall, Bob, the ones you have seen had finished backs, making them more like variations

[JollyElm]

Jumped all over this Kaline with the bandage on his forehead variation. I have to imagine there are very, very few out there graded this high. Love it!!!

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Soon, I will add my pal Al to my ongoing 'errors and variations for trade' thread in the B/S/T.

[jthorst75]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Jumped all over this Kaline with the bandage on his forehead variation. I have to imagine there are very, very few out there graded this high. Love it!!!

Attachment 215130

Soon, I will add my pal Al to my ongoing 'errors and variations for trade' thread in the B/S/T.

Thanks, I lost out by a dollar on that one. I was hoping no one else caught the bandage considering that you couldn't zoom over the photo.

[jb67]

Congrats. Major score with Kaline PSA 8.

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Jumped all over this Kaline with the bandage on his forehead variation. I have to imagine there are very, very few out there graded this high. Love it!!!

Attachment 215130

Soon, I will add my pal Al to my ongoing 'errors and variations for trade' thread in the B/S/T.

[jason.1969]

Managed to have no cards of Luis Aparicio...till now.

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This brings up a trivia question I definitely don't know the answer to: Aparicio and Nellie Fox made up a HOF middle infield for the Chisox from 1956-1962...ballpark 1000 games. What HOF middle infield played the most games together? A few pairings that come to mind are Tinker/Evers, Yount/Molitor, and Reese/Robinson. Definitely wouldn't be surprised if none of these were the answer though.

[Mark70Z]

Didn't thetoppsvault auction one at one of the National events w/Reggie included? Think it was the same auction that had the N. Ryan rookie transparency, but I may be mistaken.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

it's a shame psa wont touch proofs.

I've seen 67 Topps Maris Yankees proofs in PSA slabs., for example Do you mean that they won't assign a number grade?