August 6, 2015: Sports & Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/6/2015
Presented here is a kind of unique array of Hall of Famers and great stars in both traditional Topps mainstream issues and also in the popular Fleer Baseball Greats series from 1961 and some of the Kellogg’s cards from the 1970’s, all in relatively high grades from Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt and easily more than three dozen of the total Hall of Famers. The lineup: 1948 Leaf - No. 10 and No. 61, both Very Good; 1954 Red Heart -Schoendienst – Ex-Mt; 1961 Fleer Baseball Greats (20) – No. 6 Johnson – Ex-Mt, 9 Brown – Ex-Mt, 10 Speaker – Nr-Mt, 13 Sisler – Nr-Mt o/c, 19 – Nr-Mt, 20 Collins – Nr-Mt, 23 Barrow – Nr-Mt o/c, 24 Cochrane – Nr-Mt, 30 Klein – Nr-Mt o/c, 32 Simmons – Nr-Mt o/c, 33 Foxx – Nr-Mt, 37 – Nr-Mt, 38 Mize – Ex-Mt o/c, 39 – Nr-Mt, 41 Baker – Nr-Mt, 43 – Nr-Mt, 44 Anson – Nr-Mt, 48 Wilson – Nr-Mt o/c, 70 – Nr-Mt and 76 Waner – Nr-Mt; 1961 Nu-Card Scoops, mostly Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt – Nos. 413, 437, 442, 448 and 477; 1962 Post Cereal Mickey Mantle No. 5 advertising panel – Poor; 1964 Topps – No. 331 AL Bombers – Nr-Mt; 1970’s Kellogg’s are basically Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt – 1970 No. 51, 1971 No. 62 Torre, 1972 Nos. 24, 29 and No. 54 Mays, 1974 No. 4, 1978 No. 40 Reggie Jackson, and 1980 – No. 3 Reggie Jackson, 5 Schmidt and 38 Seaver. Cards from the 1970’s forward are Nr-Mt or Nr-Mt to Mt: 1977 No. 70 Bench, 140 Carlton, 450 Rose, 473 Dawon RC, 476 Murphy RC, 580 Brett and 650 Ryan; 1978 Topps No. 154; 1990 Topps No. 290 Yount; 1986 Donruss No. 126 Yount; and 2006 UD Player Highlights No. 27 Alex Rodriguez (Ex-Mt).
1960’s and 1970’s Vintage Topps and Fleer High-Grade Grouping with HOFers and Stars (52)
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