November 6, 2024: Fall Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2025
Here’s a striking partial set of the coveted 1963 Post Cereal Baseball issue, found here in its most coveted form of complete or partial panels, easing some of the concerns typically attributed to relying on the scissoring skills of an earlier generation of American youth. In a grouping of several Post Cereal baseball and football near and partial sets, this lot neatly adheres to a cherished hobby tradition of improving condition over time, with a remarkably clean and consistent presentation, largely devoid of some of the minor blemishes or hiccups like extraneous small pencil marks often encountered with this issue. In addition, most of the panels offered here are complete and intact, with only a handful having individual cards cut out (noted in the breakdown). This was General Mills’ last of three important baseball card sets that would ultimately be a significant addition to the classic 1960s Topps mainstream issues. With such a lofty pedigree comes great cachet, with most of the larger or complete panels reasonably cut well outside the card image surfaces. Even with the smaller panels of five, four or three cards, the cutting is well done and rarely intrudes on card edges. Given the format of panels, there are a total of 127 cards included in the lot, including 92 of the 200 cards needed to complete the set. Overall, it comes out to four Seven-Card Panels, eight Panels of six cards, four Panels with five cards, and seven Panels with four cards. Breakdown of keys by panels: Seven-Card Panels: 1) Torre, 2) Marichal, and 3) Hodges; Six-Card Panels; 1) Banks, 2) Frank Robinson, 3) Hodges, 4) Cepeda, and 5) Wills (2); Five-Card Panels: 1) Marichal, 2) Mathews, 3) Berra, and 4) Banks; and Four-Card Panels: 1) Billy Williams, and 2) Berra. The album, 8 ½-by-11 inches, with 22 black-and-white pages and spot red color, is found here in attractive Ex-Mt to Near-Mint condition, with thankfully no efforts by anybody to actually affix any of the cards to their assigned locations.
1963 Post Cereal Baseball Partial Set in Complete or Cut Panels, With 13 HOFers Plus Album (23 Panels – 127 Cards)
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