February Pickup Thread

[deweyinthehall]

Good luck with the 65s - I built a set 20 years ago, sold it, and am building another now. I think it's one of the best looking from the 1960s, and honestly one of Topps' best looking sets ever. From my experience, it is relatively easy to find cards in really nice shape at very good prices - obviously I was paying less 20 years ago but even now with the craziness, still some really good bargains to be had. No huge rookies, and beyond the Mantle, you can get any card in a nice mid-grade really affordable. Also, high numbers are plentiful and not very much more expensive than the rest. Having recently completed a 1966 set, I need the breather.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

I think it's one of the best looking from the 1960s, and honestly one of Topps' best looking sets ever.

I agree! It was also the final year I bought any Baseball cards as a kid. By 1965 though my card collecting buddy and were such high powered efficient collectors that we completed a "set" from 1-264 by mid-May so I didn't dwell on them nearly as much as I did collecting the 1962 and 1963 Topps issues.

Originally Posted by deweyinthehall

From my experience, it is relatively easy to find cards in really nice shape at very good prices.... No huge rookies, and beyond the Mantle, you can get any card in a nice mid-grade really affordable.

I call the ones I pictured above "high grade" but I neither know nor care what the grading companies would call them.