1st pickups of 2017 rarest venezuelan cards

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

He is right, some 1968 Venezuelans are short printed are nearly impossible. I can't find a #296 Byron Browne to save my life. Same thing with 1972, I'm not going to believe a #87 Jose Cardenal exists until I see one.

What other 1968 Venezuelans are short printed?

I just started seriously trying to complete my Mets team sets, I'll probaby never get the Koosman/Ryan rookie because of the price and I'm fine with that.

[DBesse27]

Yes I would also love a list of the 68 Venz SPs. I just started on that set and that would be useful info. Thanks in advance for your help.

[Cliff Bowman]

The 1968 Curt Blefary and the 1968 Byron Browne are both on the left edge of the original printing sheet and are the cards in the upper and lower corners, that might have something to do with it. The only 1968 Venezuelan Browne that I have ever seen was on eBay years ago, a horribly miscut one that I was outbid on at a high price. I figured the placement on the sheet probably had something to do with the reason for the miscut and its rarity. I only pursue Venezuelan Cubs cards so those are the only ones that I notice are very difficult to find.

[hcv123]

Not sure why, but a number of the 1967's and 1968's are REALLY tough. I'll throw the 1967 Clemente in the pile - Only ever saw one on ebay. John Rumierz said something about the series Clemente is in in 1967 being much scarcer than the rest of the set.

[Rich Klein]

The 1967 1st series is really difficult. IIRC, Keith Olbermann paid some amazing prices for cards he needed that he had never seen before

Rich