Here are some more singles and small lots I picked up recently. After a week or so of guessing what was a good value, I finally went back and did real research. I looked up the lowest sold price for each Topps base cards for about 25 HOFers (and equivalents like Pete Rose). I put them all in a spreadsheet and am using that as a guide, and it's helped me cut down on too many $5 and $10 purchases that could be $3 or $4. Mostly.
These however are from before I did that, so some of them I probably paid a bit too much for, from my point of view. I don't think I did too badly on any one of them, though. Even got a couple of big-time dupes which could make for interesting trade fodder.
Five cards for $20. I had just bought a '59 Ford so now I have one to trade. If you are interested, pick your poison between the one with writing or the one with the tape residue. '56 Banks I am most excited about, but these are all pretty good cards for $4 each.
$18 for four cards. (Same seller.) You know it's a great lot when Al Kaline is by far the least of the stars. I actually had a '61 Kaline but this one will be a rare upgrade for me. The one that will be available for trade has most of the back obscured by paper glued on.
There's a very high-volume dealer called Greg Morris who has a huge auction of low grade vintage every Friday night, with $5 total shipping. Becomes easy to spend a lot quickly but still get pretty good deals. '72 Kaline - $10, probably an overpay though it is a high number. I've seen this card on the blogs, it is one of the best shots I've seen of the old Yankee Stadium. '71 Aaron - $15. Probably could have gotten for under $10 somewhere else with more patience. '70 Perez - $1.'69 Carew - $4. '68 HR Leaders - $2. (RIP Frank Howard.) '62 Post Berra $3. '69 Royals rookie high number $1. '72 Reggie $5. '62 Harry Bright high-number $1. '62 Maris WS $9. (Overpaid for sure. Got excited for Maris in '61.) Killebrew Sends One into Orbit $3. I love that title.
'60 Gibson - $5. Yeah, I overpayed at the card show with $6 for a 1970.
'69 Aaron - $11. Not bad.
WIN SOME LOSE SOME. BUT THAT 5 PACK AND THE BANKS ESPECIALLY VERY NICE!
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ReplyDelete'60s kid too lazy to turn the card over so they had to write the number on the front?
ReplyDeleteGreg Morris has hundreds of auctions ending every day of the week. They have a very loyal following, and as such it's not that easy to get things on the cheap. I've won a few thing from them in the past, and funny enough, just got a mailing yesterday for four cards that I won last week.
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