Vintage Oddball or Rare/Scarce?

[quitcrab]

1955 Topps double headers.So undervalued in my mind.
1964 bazooka stamps are cool…. Only 100 players.
1971 Topps greatest moments…. Expensive but so freakin cool!

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by quitcrab

1955 Topps double headers.So undervalued in my mind.
1964 bazooka stamps are cool…. Only 100 players.
1971 Topps greatest moments…. Expensive but so freakin cool!

Every time Jolly posts a 71 Greatest Moments I want to jump in...then the prices bring me back to reality. So cool, and I do have to imagine they are very good investments. I have to pull the trigger on the Killebrew card as it's one of the few I need. But yes, those are sweet...

[BobC]

Would also suggest looking at the 1964 Auravision records/cards. Small, but extremely star studded set, very reasonable prices for them, and I think they are arguably some of the greatest, most clear and stunning photos of players from the 50s and 60s that are out there. In person and in hand, they are absolutely gorgeous, and not too difficult to find in great shape.

Also, at least for some time in the past as far as I can remember, one of the few sets where the Willie Mays card was actually more valuable than Mickey Mantle's as Mays was supposedly a short print, if memory serves me correctly.

[Exhibitman]

I dunno if this fits your era but there are a whole slew of oddball sets from the 1960s-1970s that are challenging and fun. Some can run a few bucks but nothing compared to earlier cards. Some examples

1960 and 1961 Nu Card. People are starting to realize that this set has career-contemporary cards of Aaron, Mays, Musial, Williams (1960), McCovey RC, and some others I don't recall. Slabbed can cost you but nice raw cards are still a deal.




1968 Atlantic Oil. Forty cards mostly HOFers. The game ticket packaging makes condition an issue but if you don't insist on high grade there are plenty of career-contemporary HOFers for reasonable prices.



1961-63 Post and Jello cards are very reasonable.

[ValKehl]

1961 7-11 set. The cards are so ugly that hardly anyone collects them. I have only this one card from this set, because Runnels was my favorite player when I was a kid.

[Zach Wheat]

Val,

The 7-11 card looks like it was typed on a typewriter!

[steve B]

The 1969 MLB sports collectors "stamp" set has always been affordable.

[Mbjerry]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

1961 7-11 set. The cards are so ugly that hardly anyone collects them. I have only this one card from this set, because Runnels was my favorite player when I was a kid.

Man those are ugly. Lol


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[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

1961 7-11 set. The cards are so ugly that hardly anyone collects them. I have only this one card from this set, because Runnels was my favorite player when I was a kid.

I once owned an antique convertible that a friend of mine who was a collector described as "rare and undesirable."

[tod41]

1972 Pro Star Promotions.

[Mbjerry]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I dunno if this fits your era but there are a whole slew of oddball sets from the 1960s-1970s that are challenging and fun. Some can run a few bucks but nothing compared to earlier cards. Some examples

1960 and 1961 Nu Card. People are starting to realize that this set has career-contemporary cards of Aaron, Mays, Musial, Williams (1960), McCovey RC, and some others I don't recall. Slabbed can cost you but nice raw cards are still a deal.




1968 Atlantic Oil. Forty cards mostly HOFers. The game ticket packaging makes condition an issue but if you don't insist on high grade there are plenty of career-contemporary HOFers for reasonable prices.



1961-63 Post and Jello cards are very reasonable.

These are some cool cards! I love those Nu Cards. Haven’t seen those before. Thank you!


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[Mbjerry]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I dunno if this fits your era but there are a whole slew of oddball sets from the 1960s-1970s that are challenging and fun. Some can run a few bucks but nothing compared to earlier cards. Some examples

1960 and 1961 Nu Card. People are starting to realize that this set has career-contemporary cards of Aaron, Mays, Musial, Williams (1960), McCovey RC, and some others I don't recall. Slabbed can cost you but nice raw cards are still a deal.




1968 Atlantic Oil. Forty cards mostly HOFers. The game ticket packaging makes condition an issue but if you don't insist on high grade there are plenty of career-contemporary HOFers for reasonable prices.



1961-63 Post and Jello cards are very reasonable.

Picked this one up in the Net54 marketplace yesterday. Thanks for the suggestion.




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[Exhibitman]

Also consider team issues, McCarthy postcards, and picture packs. They are kind of the wild west--little cataloguing, lots of BS--but present some great early cards of postwar players, sometimes for a pittance compared to other career-issued sets.

1962-65 Jays Publishing:



1966 McCarthy PC (happens to be signed):



Boston TI's: