1963 Post Cereal Baseball Near Set (199/200)

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This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/14/2019

Offered is a near-complete set of the 1963 Post Cereal Baseball issue, found here in broadly Excellent to Ex-Plus condition for those cards reasonably well cut, with a few reaching Near-Mint, a fairly typical qualifier for an issue that so strenuously taxed the scissoring skills of a generation of American youth, with the key card, No. 15 Mickey Mantle arriving in a PSA 4 holder. The 1963 set was the final year of three years that Post put baseball cards on the boxes of their many cereals, and the cutting capabilities with the later years often improved a bit, and such is the case here. In the listing below, cards are listed for Hall of Famers and keys, plus some anomalies that fall outside the condition range. The one missing card is No. 172 Billy Williams. About 70 percent of the set have some tape or other adhesive residue on the backs where the cards had been affixed to a page, but all of it is confined to the blank backs and does not detract from the overall presentation in any fashion. The breakdown: No. 2 Very Good, No. 3 – VG-Ex, No. 6 – (mkd), No. 11 – VG, No. 16 – Maris – Good – poorly cut, No. 19 Ford – Poor, No. 21 – wavy cut, No. 30 – wavy cut, No. 70 – poorly cut, No. 108 – poorly cut, No. 109 Marichal – Near-Mint, No. 119 – Nr-Mt (mkd), No. 128 – poorly cut, No. 129 – Fair, No. 153 – (mkd), No. 162 – poorly cut and No. 174 – poorly cut.