Tuesday, December 30, 2025

'54s and '49s

Bought a couple of cheap lots of older cards that both were delivered yesterday.

Starting off with a nice big lot of '54 Topps. It's getting nearly impossible to find decently priced lots of older Topps cards these days. I was able to snag this one because they were trimmed down to "standard" card size. I'm OK with any condition, though I must trimming like this sometimes annoys me a little when flipping through my cards. Still, all of these will fit well into my set.

Plenty of leftover to trade. Not sure if any bloggers have use for trimmed '54s, if not I'm sure I can find homes for these in OBC.

Topps lots are hard but interesting older oddballs are still getable at good prices. These are 1949 Eureka Stamps. I guess not everyone considers these cards but I do. Great photos at a time when other cards just had paintings. 

I needed all 11 of these, including both Muellers on the Giants (unrelated to each other), Johnny Jorgensen who is usually known as Spider, and Spike Nelson who is usually known as Rocky. Great little look into the National League of the late 1940s.
 

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4 comments:

  1. Johnnys Trading SpotDecember 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM

    tcdb counts those stamps as cards, so why not

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  2. Jeff B - Wax Pack Wonders December 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM

    Yeah I count them as cards too for my Cubs team collection (one card of each player) as it's tough to find cards in the late 40s and early 50s for some of these guys otherwise.

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  3. Mark ZentkovichDecember 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM

    👍

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  4. FujiDecember 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM

    Those stamps are really cool. I'd just call them stamps, but they definitely fit under the umbrella of collectibles I'm interested in collecting and they are directly related to trading cards (just like Pinnacle Mint coins or Ted Williams pogs).

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