Wednesday, March 8, 2023

TCDB trades: 1961 Topps

A couple of recent TCDB trades help beef up my 1961 set.

That recent eBay lot I bought, with a lot of high-grade dupes, already paid a dividend, as I was able to trade one 1959 high number to Bldrprof for a quartet of 1961s. The Bill Kunkel is my favorite here, even though I don't know if it is a colorized black-and-white photo or a straight-up painting.

Cdorso is working on a 1960 set, and I traded him all of my remaining '60s, plus a few modern cards, for 18 1961s:

It's too bad Topps wasted a nice, simple design with so many boring photos. Better photo selection would have made this set an all-time great.



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5 comments:

  1. Johnnys Trading SpotMarch 8, 2023 at 11:58 AM

    taking care of those 61's you are.

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  2. Jeff B - Wax Pack Wonders March 8, 2023 at 3:18 PM

    Love that Cal McLish.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 9, 2023 at 10:21 AM

    Some of the '61 singles, like Kunkel, do look like they were painted or created with a very primitive precursor to photoshop. I'm not sure myself, but it's one reason why I'd be turned off from building that set.

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  4. CrocodileMarch 9, 2023 at 3:19 PM

    The photos of that '61 set might make that the worst set of the 60's.

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  5. JonMarch 13, 2023 at 7:28 PM

    The billboards behind Kunkel are great, his image, not so much.

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