81 Fleer new variation.

[brob28]

I just recently started re-visiting this set. In '81 my friends and I were really excited that we would have options besides Topps and when all the errors and variations were being discovered it only added to the excitement. With prices of my pre-war and golden age interests leaving the stratosphere, I decided to work on some less expensive items and finally complete this set. I pretty much just need variations; my list is below. I can trade or buy (have plenty of '81's including variations).


#24 Saucier – Kevin on back
#114 Lopes – Finger on back
#177 Dempsey – finger on front
#215 Bonham – finger on back
#419 Jefferson – Blue Jays on back
#644 Checklist - #202 “George Foster”
#652 Checklist – includes #483 Aurelio Lopez
#659 Checklist – last # on front is 551

Thanks

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Originally Posted by brob28

I just recently started re-visiting this set. In '81 my friends and I were really excited that we would have options besides Topps and when all the errors and variations were being discovered it only added to the excitement. With prices of my pre-war and golden age interests leaving the stratosphere, I decided to work on some less expensive items and finally complete this set. I pretty much just need variations; my list is below. I can trade or buy (have plenty of '81's including variations).


#24 Saucier – Kevin on back
#114 Lopes – Finger on back
#177 Dempsey – finger on front
#215 Bonham – finger on back
#419 Jefferson – Blue Jays on back
#644 Checklist - #202 “George Foster”
#652 Checklist – includes #483 Aurelio Lopez
#659 Checklist – last # on front is 551

Thanks

I'll bump this thread to say this post motivated me to dive into the madness of '81 Fleer. I've run down these along with the ton of other errors, reverse negatives, etc. I had forgotten about the Baines and Stoddard cards. Maybe someday on those! It's been a fun journey and not overly expensive.

[Troy Kirk]

Well, this thread made me look at my 1981 Fleer cards for the first time in many years. No Stoddard error in my cards, so no King's Ransom for me. I remember when these cards came out I was searching for the variations that were published back then. The Craig Nettles card was the valuable one and a friend of mine told me there was a 7-11 in town that had a lot of boxes of these cards with the variations. I went down there and bought 3 boxes I think with the early variations. Nettles was selling for about $10 I think at the time, and I looked in the price guides and some 1959 Mays and Mantle cards I needed were selling for about the same price. So I put an ad in SCD and offered Nettles for Mays or Mantle, and I ended up making trades for both those cards (may have been All-Star version of the cards, I can't remember). I also remember needing only Lopes in the hand versions and buying it for $1.50 at a show and feeling like an idiot. That purchase kind of stopped me from chasing all these variations, though I still save them when I get them, just don't hunt them anymore.

[ALR-bishop]

Sorry to hear you have lost your path Troy