ugliest and boring pre war issues

[ScottFandango]

Poor art and detail
Small stature
Poor condition
Thus

Cheap prices

[kcohen]

I can't think of any pre-war issue that I find ugly is the way Topps cards in the 70s became, but mind-numbingly boring, off the top of my head: Maple Crispettes, the ice creams (Yuengling, Tharps, Harrington), York Caramels

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by kcohen

I can't think of any pre-war issue that I find ugly is the way Topps cards in the 70s became, but mind-numbingly boring, off the top of my head: Maple Crispettes, the ice creams (Yuengling, Tharps, Harrington), York Caramels

I'm with you on other issues aside from Maple Crispette. Outstanding player selection, great portraits and interesting background text. I pretty much don't like any "W" issues, "generic" sets, the humanoid illustrations of T207 AND *gasp* the incredibly overrated T206 set. I guess after handling 300 trillion of them the appeal wears off. Heck, I think they even found some on the moon.

[iggyman]

Glad you asked! Hangs down, actually it's not even close, the ugliest set of all-time has got to be the W517! This set is down-right repulsive!!! Makes me puke! Who in their right mind would ever commission a set like this???

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What an awful set. First of all it's not a lithograph, nor was it ever inserted into a tobacco product. Then to make matters worse, a dreadful dull ho-hum strip set. Yeah, I'm falling asleep as well. Okay, so the W517 is chuck full of nuts loaded with hall of famers. So what of it.............just because Bo Derek got the leading role in a movie, that never made her a ten.

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Yeah it's got variations, but have you seen the print quality??? Disgusting, distressing, and mostly dreadful!

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Sure, it comes in a rainbow of colors (purple, red, b&w, sepia, etc) but now I'm beginning to insult your intelligence. Didn't we already learn that colors will fade!

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Thank you thread starter and moderator dude for letting me vent. I actually feel much better and in a small way I'm now a better person. So if you should ever see an unsightly W517 on eBay, don't even bother to take a peek, your money will be better spent on a Sammy Sosa RC.

Lovely Day...

[ValKehl]

Hi Ken - I note that you did not include the 1928 Sweetman cards as being boring. Am I to assume then that you really like these?
Val

[familytoad]

Ig, my old pal...
You convinced me, I will not collect the W517 cards.
Now, i may pick up a HOFer or two, but I promise to only get the guys who have been panned as not worthy HOFers. You know that set has several of the 30's players who should have never been HOFers (so I have heard) and the set itself is ugly and boring.
And my York Caramels are ugly too ...although I think I will hang onto them, just so no one else has to suffer with them.

Whew...that was close

[zljones]

Gee wow some defensivness I am detecting about collectors like myself not liking 1916-1932 era cards because they are dull. I did not think I would be thought of as less intelligent because I do not collect from this era or find them interesting. I do not see how INTELLIGENCE plays into having a preferrence in what kind of cards one collects.

[zljones]

So I should just collect Sammy Sosa Rookie cards because I do not prefer to collect this era of cards that do not interest me, how does that happen?? What does Sammy Sosa have to do with vintage? Gee I must be DUMB because I do not prefer to collect from this era and I wanted to see if anyone felt the same way as me, wow that makes me STUPID.
Stupid me needs colors to make me happy I guess. I guess appreciating the fine art of litograph over a BW photgraph makes me dumber, wow that sucks, I think I need to grow a bigger brain now.