Truly scarce postwar cards

[Neal]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I think this one qualifies, and just happens to be the first issue of a major HOFer. Others?

That's awesome!

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[ALR-bishop]

Tough Topps items

[ALR-bishop]

Oddball tough

[ALR-bishop]

In 1981 Topps issued several team sets cobranded with Coke. All but the Yankees had 11 cards and a Header card in their set. For some reason only 3 Yankee cards and the Header card made it to the public. This is the the 8th unissued Yankee card. The other 7 were posted above

[Harliduck]

I'd call this "scarce", not rare by any means but this little known 53 Dorman Skowron is super tough. Took me 4 months to find one when I put my set together. I got it raw and subbed it myself, presents better than a 1 (crease free, got lucky), but it's stamped and was sent. A quick check on Ebay currently and there are two spendy but decently priced...that was not the case when I was looking of course.




About as "scarce" as anything I have...I'm sure the 63 Fleer Checklist doesn't apply...haha. I guess I'm a pretty boring post war collector.

[sbfinley]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

I'd call this "scarce", not rare by any means but this little known 53 Dorman Skowron is super tough.

Wasn't the Gil Hodges Dorman PC ultra scarce for years until someone found a warehouse find of thousands of them? Or is that something I've just imagined in my advanced age.

[Harliduck]

That is true and one of the best post war stories out there. Apparently they never mailed out Gil's back in the day (the players used these to hand out to fans, and some were sold at specific stadiums) and his stash was found in the artists basement years later after he passed, not that long ago. The VERY FEW that were in the hobby were going for 5 digit prices, even for poor cards and it was considered by many as one of the rarest post war cards of them all. The discovery was purchased in whole at an auction and unfortunately for anyone who spent big bucks to get one, the value dropped exponentially. There is a PSA 10 on ebay for like $300 right now. The stash was in mint shape. I have a 7 I graded myself, and also picked up an 8 a while back for next to nothing. Just goes to show there are winners, and LOSERS when there is a big find. If you google it there are many articles on this...again, a pretty cool story.

I've read, not sure what the truth is, but Skowron and Elston Howard threw most of theirs away, thus the premium.