November 18, 2021: Fall Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/18/2021
Offered Is a high-grade group of the 1964 Topps Baseball issue, an array headlined by 21 slabbed cards that include a number of key stars and Rookies, plus a large binder of (242) raw cards that includes 10 Hall of Famers, many stars and a boatload of Specials. The slabbed group is dominated by Near-Mint to Near-Mint to Mint blazers, including three PSA 9 Mint cards, five (5) PSA 8s and two SGC 88s, and headlined by a BVG 7 No. 125 Pete Rose second-year blazer. The raw card array is broadly Ex-Mt to Near-Mint, with some below, and includes five cards from the difficult High Number Series Seven and number of the Hall of Famers from the issue, including Drysdale, Stengel, Snider, Lopez, Bunning and LaRussa. The whole array of raw cards is presented in spectacular fashion in the popular M.J. Roop Archival binder, probably the most attractive presentation of cards in sheets extant, boasting heavy-board slip case, vinyl cover page and checklist and silver stamping on jet-black binder (Near-Mint or better). The slabbed card lineup (21) PSA unless otherwise indicated): PSA 9 (3) – No. 295, 433 Yankees Team and 576 Rookie; PSA 8 (5) – No. 235, 287 Tony Conigliaro Rookie, 360 Pepitone, 415 Kubek and 508; SGC 88 (2) – No. 27 Mets Team and No. 57; PSA 7 (9) – No. 21 Berra, 24, 125 Rose (BVG), 225 Maris (SGC 84), 280 Marichal, 393 Casey Teaches (SGC 84), 423 Tops in NL, 457 and 582; and PSA 6 – No. 230 Brooks Robinson. The raw card lineup: No. 11 League Leader (Aaron), Drysdale (Nr-Mt), No. 136 World Series (Koufax), John Rookie, Richie Allen Rookie, Stengel, LaRussa, Bunning, Snider, Lopez, White, Pinson, DeBusschere and Kubek, plus five (5) Series Seven highs, five (5) Checklists, six (6) League Leaders, five (5) World Series subset, six (6) Teams and four (4) Combination cards.
1964 Topps Baseball Partial Set, 21 Slabs, HOFers, Rookies and Specials (285)
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