Lets see your best centered 52 Topps cards.

[Tom S.]

Originally Posted by BillyC_KY

Such a hard card to find centered.

Billy, that's a nice Nuxhall!

Originally Posted by smellthegum

Great cards all and thanks for sharing. Nice to know that some numbers actually DO exist centered!

Not all perfect but here are a few names from my 1-310 run that I think are better centered than most copies out there ...

Dave, great group of cards! I really like the Maxwell and Garagiola.

[skelly423]

I know it's not perfect top-bottom, but it's a Herman freaking Wehmeier with great left-right centering. This is about as close as you can get for this card.

[irv]

Originally Posted by skelly423

I know it's not perfect top-bottom, but it's a Herman freaking Wehmeier with great left-right centering. This is about as close as you can get for this card.

Is that a recent pick up, Sean?
One just like it, (if not the same one?) ended a week or 2 ago that I had my eye on but knew it would go for a handsome price.
Surprised, after the fact, however, it didn't go for more.

Congrats if you're the lucky winner.

[skelly423]

Originally Posted by irv

Is that a recent pick up, Sean?
One just like it, (if not the same one?) that ended a week or 2 ago that I had my eye on but knew it would go for a handsome price.
Surprised, after the fact, however, it didn't go for more.

Congrats if you're the lucky winner.

It's probably the same card, I just bought it two weeks ago. Someone broke a set, and there were two Wehmeiers. I got what I think was the better of the two copies

[Gorditadogg]

A few recent pick-ups:

[Gorditadogg]

Plus my Nuxhall:

[skelly423]

Beautiful cards guys, well done.

[Tom S.]

Originally Posted by skelly423

I know it's not perfect top-bottom, but it's a Herman freaking Wehmeier with great left-right centering. This is about as close as you can get for this card.

Sean - nice Herm!

This must be Wehmeier week, because I just got one for my set as well. Mine's a little off-center T/B too, but I can live with it...

[skelly423]

Great copy Tom

[irv]

Originally Posted by skelly423

It's probably the same card, I just bought it two weeks ago. Someone broke a set, and there were two Wehmeiers. I got what I think was the better of the two copies

Yep, those were them.
Glad to read/see you were the lucky winner, Sean.
Great looking card.

Nice cards, again, Al and Tom.
It's not too often (if ever?) that I've saw 2 great looking, centered, Wehmeir's back to back.

[Bobmc]

Billy Pierce, a fav from my childhood, fingers crossed he is eventually enshrined in the HOF

[skelly423]

Beautiful copy, congratulations Bob

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by Tom S.

Sean - nice Herm!

This must be Wehmeier week, because I just got one for my set as well. Mine's a little off-center T/B too, but I can live with it...

Tom/Sean nicely centered Wehmeier cards!

[GoldenAge50s]

Hello everyone!

Just now saw this post about 1952 Topps. My collection goes back to 1952, when I bought every 1952 Topps card I own. I was in an area where the 1st 2 series were the only cards we ever saw for sale, and for many yrs thought my set was complete at 250 cards.

Here are just 6 cards I had graded many yrs ago, & my collection is still all original to from 1-250!

[ALR-bishop]

Great cards Fred

[irv]

Originally Posted by GoldenAge50s

Hello everyone!

Just now saw this post about 1952 Topps. My collection goes back to 1952, when I bought every 1952 Topps card I own. I was in an area where the 1st 2 series were the only cards we ever saw for sale, and for many yrs thought my set was complete at 250 cards.

Here are just 6 cards I had graded many yrs ago, & my collection is still all original to from 1-250!

Those are some great cards!
Odd, you were able to get the cards you did and not the others but that seems to be the case with other collectors from that era too.

I remember asking Tedz about the 1952 Topps Look N See cards and was surprised to read he had never seen a one during his early collecting days.

I guess it's impossible to stock every city around the globe with cards so they most likely just went by previous sales/popularity from other companies on top of their own and based that on who'd get cards to sell and who wouldn't?

[skelly423]

Seeing cards this age that are still with the original owner is a special treat. Among other things, hey are especially vibrant. Thanks for sharing them.

Originally Posted by GoldenAge50s

Hello everyone!

Just now saw this post about 1952 Topps. My collection goes back to 1952, when I bought every 1952 Topps card I own. I was in an area where the 1st 2 series were the only cards we ever saw for sale, and for many yrs thought my set was complete at 250 cards.

Here are just 6 cards I had graded many yrs ago, & my collection is still all original to from 1-250!

[GoldenAge50s]

THANKS for all the comments guys!

My opinion on who got Black Backs & who got Red Backs simply depended on the distributor to a given area at the time he ordered from Topps!

[GoldenAge50s]

I pulled a couple of pages at random from my nr-set to show you the overall quality of the cards I bought over 70 yrs ago! These are just as they came from packs--none have ever been upgraded.

[irv]

Originally Posted by GoldenAge50s

I pulled a couple of pages at random from my nr-set to show you the overall quality of the cards I bought over 70 yrs ago! These are just as they came from packs--none have ever been upgraded.

Nice!