Worst Looking Sets Ever : IMO

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by sandmountainslim

Agreed! Maybe the single ugliest card in the history of baseball cards.
Makes Gold Coin look like Rembrandt painted them.

Joe D. gets even better in the large premium form.

[KMayUSA6060]

Strip cards are absolutely some of the ugliest cards ever made, but man can they make a budget HoF-collector happy.

P.S. Not sure they taught proper scissor-cutting technique in school back then. Some of the strip cards look like Edward Scissorhands cut them after doing a modern day Edward Fortyhands.

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by KMayUSA6060

Strip cards are absolutely some of the ugliest cards ever made, but man can they make a budget HoF-collector happy.

P.S. Not sure they taught proper scissor-cutting technique in school back then. Some of the strip cards look like Edward Scissorhands cut them after doing a modern day Edward Fortyhands.

Can someone please enlighten me how grading companies approach the W strip cards. How do they determine which hand cut cards are merely authentic and others deserve a grade? Is it just the published/predetermined measurements of each set or determined by the grader?

[Zach Wheat]

The image is a mirror image too.

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[honus94566]

In general I love the M116 set, but there are a few amazingly fugly ones like the Amos Strunk:

[sterlingfox]

I'll have to go with drawn (not real photo) strip cards as the ugliest, but they are historically important, so I'm still including them in my "type" collection.

I also dislike sets with players who all look the same or very similar (E91C, T201, Buchner's, etc), so I won't ever be completing any of them - just including 1 as a "type" in my collection.

As for the '38 Goudey Heads Up cards, I really like them. They might look a bit odd, but I find them to be original and fun. Some day I'd like a full set of the high #'s.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Joe D. gets even better in the large premium form.

Man, that guy was UUUUUUGLEEE!



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