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Wtb 1955 topps hocus focus kid gavilan
I want to buy a 1955 Topps HOCUS FOCUS KID GAVILAN card. It's in the sports thrills section, card # 19 of 20. I prefer a card with good exposure. Can anyone help me find one? Thanks, Sam Majors
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1955
I am just a baseball collector, but have found the baseball subset of the 1955 Hocus Focus set to be the hardest of all the actually issued Topps sets to complete. I have 21 of the 23. It has only been in the last few years that the baseball checklist was fully known.
I have finished the 1948 Magic Photo and 1956 Hocus Focus baseball subsets, but not sure I will be able to finish the 55 What is your experience on the boxing side ? |
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Tremendously rare set. Very few examples are known. I've handled a few Moores and Marcianos but have seen only one Gavilan.
It currently resides in a PSA 2 holder. Pop 1. SGC pop is 0.
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kid gavilan
i recently sold the gavilan to someone on this board...hmmmm
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Yep. Guilty as charged.
I think it finished my master set of HF boxing. As I understand it, the smaller sized cards, the singles, were # 1-126, while the larger cards with the perforated edges were #1-96. The Gavilan (116) and Moore (121) would be only available in the small versions, while Marciano (54) would be in both versions. Here is what it would look like [sorry for the crappy scans]: Who is Gavilan knocking the snot out of on the card?
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gavilan
if i knew it finished your master set i would have really jacked up the price...lol
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Looks like Ralph Tiger Jones. |
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On the Archie Moore, hard to tell from the exposure, but I would guess Harold Johnson is the opponent.
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1955
The 48 Magic Photos seem relatively "easy" to find. The 56s were not easy but the 55s seem much harder. Any theories on why that would be ?
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Kid Gavilan
AL,
I believe the boxing cards are much tougher than the baseball in the Hocus Focus sets. I have been looking for the boxers for 20 - 25 years. I've had 4 of the Marciano cards and 2 or 3 Archie Moore cards. It was on this board that I found out about the Gavilan card. It had been sold (to Adam?) before I asked about it. I'm interested if another shows up!! Thanks, Sam Majors |
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Al, David Hornish would be the person to ask.
Sam, my set may well end up in a LOTG auction some time in the not too distant future. Depends on which colleges my kid gets into.
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If you need a home for that Young Perez let me know. |
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Hey, Leon's not the only one who is willing to take one for the team...
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I've got approximately 17 years of collecting left in me until my first turns 18. I don't even want to imagine what college tuition will be then. |
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Maybe Sanders will win and it will all be free. Then everyone of us can just spend as much money as we want on old pieces of cardboard!
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Let's leave the politics out of this. You want to spout off about that subject, go to another board.
Oh, and FYI, under the reign of that well-known left-wing pinko commie socialist, governor Ronald Reagan, the University of California offered free tuition to state residents.
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Hocus Focus
Speaking of those two guys, anyone have the Roosevelt World Leader card
As for 55, I do not think the baseball subset is any easier. It was not until a couple of years ago Bob Lemke was even able to complete the baseball checklist, and I have still never seen the two I am looking for. Anyone know anyone who has done the entire set ? I have an unopened 56 pack, has anyone seen a 55 pack ? I will take your suggestion Adam and ask Dave. He is sure a great resource, especially for Topps |
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Adam, point taken about leaving politics off this well-manicured board. Just to be clear though, the whole Sanders bit was tongue-in-cheek. Like Alan, I've got my own newborn. Im currently going through the first phases of seeing my discretionary income dry up like a desert oasis.
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Darn, and I had just logged on to start a rousing discussion about whether or not Obama should get to nominate someone to replace Scalia.
Kidding. This tread is giving me the itch to start collecting the self-developing boxing cards. Because then it would be a slippery slope and I would have to buy more of the 1959 hokus pokus cards (with three different back types) and it would all snowball from there. Last edited by wake.up.the.echoes; 02-13-2016 at 06:12 PM. |
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