Truly scarce postwar cards

[steve B]

I've shown these before, but again can't hurt.
76 Hostess, probably some sort of proofs. Yellow and green instead of red and blue.The group has/had a bunch of reversed negatives, and more coarsely screened pictures, and a couple with numbers over 150.
I swapped a 74 Mc Covey washington national for a small stack of them, the stupidly swapped about half of them for another McCovey.

I haven't seen any others since then, which was probably around 1980 or 81. The Luzinski showed up in a Halls auction many years later, no suprise since thats who I traded them to.

I should scan the rest of them.

[raulus]

1960 OPC tattoos for Mays. PSA has it down as pop 2.

I could be wrong, but I think the only difference between this and the more common Topps version is the line that identifies the print location.

[Griffins]

One of the 3 different '60 Fleer #80, this one the incrementally easier of the 3, Grove/Martin. Uncancelled and oversized.




'60 Topps point of purchase display, allegedly only 4 in existence, at least until someone uncovers a stack in grampas basement


Salesman samples in general are pretty scarce, but I found '53 and '56 Topps to be the toughest




Thanks for starting the thread Peter, some good stuff on here!

[ALR-bishop]

Always enjoy seeing your salesman samples Anthony. Almost as much as your pack display

[ValKehl]

I have only these 2 salesman samples. I'm always looking for any of these that include either Pete Runnels or Mickey Vernon.

[Marckus99]

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[paul]

Here are a couple of Seaver rarities from better known sets -- the 1973 Topps comic and 1973 Topps pinup.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by paul

Here are a couple of Seaver rarities from better known sets -- the 1973 Topps comic and 1973 Topps pinup.

Outstanding! I basically gave up on my Topps "Seaver as a Met" collection as completion was virtually impossible thanks to those two.

[ValKehl]

Byron "By" Speece, a submarine pitcher, began his pro career in the minors in 1922 at age 25 and finished his career with the Seattle Rainiers in 1945 at age 48! I collect his cards because he pitched for the 1924 WS Champion Washington Senators, his only year with this team. After the 1924 season, Clark Griffith shrewdly traded Speece and another "no-name" player to Cleveland for Stan Coveleski who greatly helped the Senators win the 1925 AL pennant. He pitched for Cleveland in 1925 and very briefly in 1926 and for the Phillies in 1930. All of the rest of his years were spent in the minors.

[raulus]

Try to suspend your amazement, but this time it's not Mays.

53/54 Briggs Meats Grasso. Today PSA shows Pop 1, but that's because they haven't updated for this one yet, with the grade just posting today.

Fun fact: grasso means "fat" in Italian. As the saying goes in Rome, "after a fat pope comes a skinny one", although Newton was never the Bishop of Rome.