July 15, 2021: Summer Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/15/2021
Presented is a remarkable, high-grade grouping of cards from the 1971 and 1972 Topps basketball issues, cards that boast blazing colors and gloss and a striking, as-issued patina that includes several hundred clearly from vending. The array boasts more than seven dozen Hall of Famers and a similar number of Specials, the vast majority in a pristine, mostly Near-Mint to Near-Mint to Mint condition. The lot also includes a small group of three dozen of the quirky 1971 Trio Basketball Stickers, largely in the same condition range, and a handful of cards from the 1973 Nabisco Sugar Daddy Mini Stickers. From the main group of 1971 Topps Basketball (340): 52 Hall of Famers, plus 25 Specials, mostly Checklist, League Leaders and Playoffs – Beaty, Bradley, Cowens, Brown (4), Dampier (2), Daniels, Greer (3), Hawkins, Hayes (4), Haywood (2), Issel, Johnson (6), Lucas (5), Reed (2), Unseld (6), Walker (3), White and Wilkins (2); 1972 Topps Basketball (330): 34 Hall of Famers, plus 40 Specials of Checklists, League Leaders, Playoffs and All-Stars – Archibald, Beaty, Cowens, Daniels (2), Havlicek, (2), Hawkins (2), Hayes, Haywood (3), Hudson (4), Lanier (3), Lucas (2), McGinnis, Murphy, Reed (2), Riley, Thurmond, Walker, White (2) and Wilkens (3).
1971 and 1972 Topps Basketball High-Grade Massive Group, 87 HOFers (800)
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