Vintage Football Collection

[jefferyepayne]

Nice Hornung!

Here's a card from mine.

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jeff

[jefferyepayne]

Not a popular football set but with this card I completed it. Anyone ever seen any unexposed cards from this set? How sensitive to light were they?

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I'm one post up on you, vintagetopps!

jeff

[frankbmd]

1957 NEAR MINT-MINT on top
2001 GEM MINT c AUTO on bottom

Link to the rest of the graded 57s

http://www.collectorfocus.com/collec...opps-football/

[jefferyepayne]

Beautiful cards, Frank.

In 1982 I was offered two complete sets by a dealer. 1958 football for $110 and 1957 football for $120. Being a lowly college student I could only afford to buy one of them and I chose the 1958 football set to save the 10 bucks.
30 years later the '57 Unitas cost me 2-3x this amount. Not a very good investment decision back then ...

jeff

[smotan_02]

I love the '55 set. I'll post a couple over the next few weeks. The centering isnt perfect, but it is a blazing card.

[clamendo]

I think it would be more fun to show images of cards that are rarely seen. Here's one that I think is slightly more interesting. Since Jeff, bid me up on couple of Shotwell's a few weeks ago, here's my revenge.. There are two - #9s (a and b) in the 1926 Shotwell Ad-Back Grange. The #9b shows Grange in a non-generic uniform .. may have been withdrawn due to licensing issues with the Bears, if there was such a thing in 1926 ! I think its pretty cool.....and far rarer that the T206 Joe "Slow" Doyle Hands over Head"...that is currently at $210,000 (who cares)

[jefferyepayne]

Nice cards, Carl. Didn't you discover the 9b card? How many have you seen? Where did you get it? And what's the deal with how Shotwell's are categorized in VCP? They don't seem to list the ad backs at all while listing 24 blank backs in 1926 and 12 blank backs in 1935. I'm confused.

How many of those eBay Shotwell's did you end up with? At least now I know who kept sniping my snipes.

jeff

Originally Posted by clamendo

I think it would be more fun to show images of cards that are rarely seen. Here's one that I think is slightly more interesting. Since Jeff, bid me up on couple of Shotwell's a few weeks ago, here's my revenge.. There are two - #9s (a and b) in the 1926 Shotwell Ad-Back Grange. The #9b shows Grange in a non-generic uniform .. may have been withdrawn due to licensing issues with the Bears, if there was such a thing in 1926 ! I think its pretty cool.....and far rarer that the T206 Joe "Slow" Doyle Hands over Head"...that is currently at $210,000 (who cares)

[jefferyepayne]

My favorite Jim Thorpe.

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jeff

Originally Posted by smotan_02

I love the '55 set. I'll post a couple over the next few weeks. The centering isnt perfect, but it is a blazing card.

[vintagetopps]

Jeff, Doesn't get much better than a 1933 Jim Thorpe Football card!

[vintagetopps]

Jeff, I wasn't aware Topps made cards in 1948. I assumed the 1st year was 1950? The cards are great!

[vintagetopps]

Frank, Amazing looking 57.

[vintagetopps]

Another Jimmy Brown!