April 4, 2024: Spring Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/4/2024
Presented is a nice collector-grade group of the iconic 1960 Topps Baseball issue, an array that includes eight Hall of Famers, more than 50 cards from the High-Number Series Seven and seven keys in slabs, most notably a Yastrzemski Rookie, Musial and Berra, plus Mantle, Aaron and Mays All-Stars. The array is found here in a bit wider condition range than might be typically encountered in mature collection divided pretty evenly between Ex-Mt, Excellent, VG-Ex and Very Good, with one card above to Near-Mint and barely ½ dozen below, mostly to Good. This would be a great lot for somebody wanting to pick up a huge percentage of the final two series, including an-almost complete All-Star subset that has the slabbed examples of the three keys; Mantle, Aaron and Mays. Perhaps three dozen cards have the kind of centering that might typically prompt thoughts of the upgrade though not all of those would be severe enough to dictate an off-center designation; another dozen carry the miscut qualifier. Here’s the breakdown of keys: No. 148 Yastrzemski Rookie – PSA 4, 250 Musial – SGC 4, 295 Hodges – Good, 450 Cepeda – Ex-Mt-Plus, 475 Drysdale – Near-Mint, 480 Berra – SGC 5.5, 484 Pirates Team – Good (mk), 493 Snider – VG-Ex o/c, 499 Orioles Team – VG-Ex, 502 Bunning – VG, 505 Kluszewski – Poor, 509 Davis Rookie – Excellent o/c, 513 Cubs Team – Good (mk), 531 Amoros – Ex-Plus o/c, 532 Garcia – VG-Ex o/c, 553 Skowron All-Star – VG, 554 McCovey All-Star – SGC 5, 555 Fox All-Star – VG, 559 Aparicio All-Star – Ex-Mt-Plus, 560 Banks – VG-Ex, 561 Kaline All-Star – VG, 563 Mantle All-Star – SGC 2, 564 Mays All-Star – SGC 4.5, 565 Maris All-Star – VG-Ex m/c and 566 Aaron All-Star – SGC 4.5.
1960 Topps Baseball Group, Seven Slabs, Yaz Rookie, 52 High Nos. (110)
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