1962 Jello?

[raulus]

Balticfox - those are some pretty cool sugar crisp complete panels.

Here's one of mine.

[skil55voy]

Here is my Sugar Crisp panel:

Post 62 Canadian Sugar Crisp Sheet.jpg

[Balticfox]

The Jim Bunning/Vada Pinson/Joey Jay panel is one I need!

[skil55voy]

The Bunning/Buzhardt sheet has special meaning for me. In 1962 when I was 6 years old I went to my first Detroit Tigers game. Tigers/White Sox. Starting pitchers: Jim Bunning and Johnny Buzhardt. Since I collect Post Cereal, I bought it to have as an example. Just luck for the 2 players on it.

[Balticfox]

Oh man, that's too cool! How long have you had the sheet and were you able to get it for a reasonable price?

[skil55voy]

I purchased the sheet from a gentleman in Toronto on ebay in 1998. I paid $20.00 dollars for it. He and I developed a great relationship and I was able to purchase a near complete 1963 Post Cereal Canadian Football Album from him along with 45 single 1962 Canadian football and 50 1963 Canadian Football singles. We also traded plastic football players that were in other cereals. He had a couple of duplicates from the Canadian side and I had some from the US side. I finished my 1963 Canadian football set. As for the 62 Canadian football I am down to the last 8 short prints. (Impossible to find and costly) He also got me interested in the Jello/Kraft Hockey sets from the late 80's/90's and I have full sets of those along with quite a few full Jello boxes. Since I grew up in Detroit, we got the Canadian station (Channel 9) So I got to watch Canadian Football and Hockey Night in Canada. It was great!

[Balticfox]

Cool! I acquired three 1962 Sugar Crisp Baseball panels and all five 1962 Sugar Crisp CFL panels at a small local show in London from a Sarnia area dealer in the early 1990's.



They were all still available at reasonable prices at the time.

We used to visit my uncle and his family in Detroit once or twice a year during my school years. The first NHL game I ever saw was at the Olympia on Xmas Eve in 1967(?). The final score was Toronto Maple Leafs 3 Detroit Red Wings 1.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by raulus

Balticfox - those are some pretty cool sugar crisp complete panels.

Here's one of mine.

Nice! And one I really need! What though didn't PSA like about it?

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Nice! And one I really need! What though didn't PSA like about it?

From your earlier posts, it seems like you're not much of a TPG acolyte, so I'm guessing your knowledge about how the PSA treats specific issues (especially the jumbo issues) may be a bit light. And from the sound of it, you prefer it that way!

But it's not uncommon to be a bit less knowledgeable here, even among TPG acolytes, since these jumbo issues don't get graded very often. For better or worse, I've graded a lot of jumbo issues with PSA, so have a bit more experience than most.

When it comes to jumbo issues, the grading tends to be very challenging, particularly with vintage stuff. There's just so much real estate, big long edges, etc. that the odds of imperfections is really high. I'd have to take a really close look at this one through the slab, but my guess is that the edges are imperfect with some dents and dings, the corners are a little soft, and the surface almost certainly has some added imperfections with potential scratches, abrasions, toning, and small marks/staining. So you add it all up, and they call it a 3.

As an added bonus, it was relatively recently graded, and many commentators feel that recent grading is more conservative than it used to be, to the tune of 1-2 grades. So this might have graded a 4 or a 5 in former times.

Obviously it's a nice looking copy. At the moment, it's the highest ever graded by PSA. It's certainly possible that they will grade nicer copies in the future, but I'm guessing that's unlikely. Even if there are nicer copies, it's unlikely that they'll grade much higher, just due to the factors I outlined above.

[Balticfox]

Well yours certainly looks nicer than the one I had in my collection two years ago:



Mine was nice and white but exhibited a lot of stress along the center perforation.

Incidentally, how do you define the master Willie Mays set which you say you're close to completing?