November pick ups

[whiteymet]

Hi All:

As some of you know, I have been an Exhibit collector since putting 2 cents into an Exhibit Card machine in an Amusement park in NJ when I was 10 years old, 53 years ago.

In all those years I have collected I have never been able to find an example of a Dad's Cookie Exhibit card. I just wanted one for a sample back.

Then I get the below. A COMPLETE set of 64! YEP, Mantle, Mays, J. Robinson, Kaline, Drysdale, Williams, Ashburn, Fox, Spahn, Mathews, Berra, Roberts, and other HOFer's included.

For those unfamiliar with the set these were stapled onto a bag of cookies. There are two staple in each card. Making grading a bit of a problem. I am not a grading person, but how would they grade cards that CAME with staple holes? Do they take the staples as a given and then grade on the rest of the card or do they in effect penalize for the staple holes?

Some of these have creases and rips where the card was pulled off the bag, but with all that said I am ecstatic to acquire the set.

For some reason the guy only had the set, no dupes and no album that is noted on the back of the card. Anyone have an album?

Fred

[Leon]

Neat cards. Just a guess but I think they would still deduct for the holes. FYI, I am almost positive I have had one of these, or seen one, without the staple holes. Congrats on your pickups!!

[whiteymet]

Originally Posted by Leon

Neat cards. Just a guess but I think they would still deduct for the holes. FYI, I am almost positive I have had one of these, or seen one, without the staple holes. Congrats on your pickups!!

Thanks Leon!

I would be interested in seeing one of these without the staple holes.

Fred

[Bestdj777]

Awesome pickup. In my years looking, I have never come across a single one of these either. I figured not many of them had survived. Great cards. Would love to hear where you found them?

[whiteymet]

Originally Posted by Bestdj777

Awesome pickup. In my years looking, I have never come across a single one of these either. I figured not many of them had survived. Great cards. Would love to hear where you found them?

Hi Chris:

These actually came out of Vancouver Canada. The guy who had them collected them as a kid and had the entire set. But NO dupes!!

Do you have any of 1955 Postcard backs? If so which players and which back? LMK. I have some of these to trade. PM me.

Fred

[h2oya311]

Cool find! He must have been a very prolific trader or sold/traded all dupes. Very awesome!! Great start to the November pick-up thread!

[savedfrommyspokes]

I recently purchased a grouping of 57 Topps cards, and would you believe that (unknowingly) included in the lot was one of the "variations", the 57 BAKEP, I have been wanting for years(I just refused to part with the needed money to acquire one). The seller of this lot appears to not be very familiar with cards as most of his sales involved general estate type items and not cards.

[Brianruns10]

I just won this doozy over at Heritage. Paid a bit of a premium over SMR, but worth it for those amazing colors and killer centering. Forget an OC PSA 8...I'll take one of these any day!

[ALR-bishop]

Saved-- fun find. I have always viewed it as a minor print defect, of which there are many such back defects in every Topps set. But it has hobby recognition and is therefore a must for every master 57 collector.

Nice 52 high Brian

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

...how would they grade cards that CAME with staple holes? Do they take the staples as a given and then grade on the rest of the card or do they in effect penalize for the staple holes?

The people who get paid for their opinions would hate those staple holes, which is just another reason not to pay them for their opinion.

Those are fantastic, congrats.

Doug

[Bestdj777]

I generally don't purchase panels but I have never seen this without the edges removed:

[39special]

This just came in the mail today.

[whiteymet]

Another jewel just in from SGC that will be showing up on the B/S/T forum in the future.

Front is GEORGEOUS, back has some minor tape residue thus the VG designation.

[Vintageloz]

Picked this up today. Low grade but been wanting one for a while. Will look nice in my HOF rookie collection

[g_vezina_c55]

Nice 51 mantle

[CW]

^^^ agree. No HOF rookie collection is complete without that classic. Cool card!


These 3 were picked up over the last couple months, the most recent arriving today.

[g_vezina_c55]

Just arrived in the mail. Another Mick