March 21, 2019: Sports & Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/21/2019
Presented here is yet another old-fashioned type auction lot featuring hundreds of vintage mostly Topps football cards from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, including more than 100 Hall of Famers and a boatload of stars and specials, all neatly embedded in an enormous grouping that demands a good deal of close examination to secure maximum value. The headliner would be a startling array of mostly Mint rockets in PSA slabs: 1970 Topps No. 172 Fischer – PSA 9, 1975 Topps No. 8 Blanda – PSA 9, 1978 Topps No. 229 Williams – PSA 10, 1978 Topps No. 380 Haynes – PSA 9, 1978 Topps No. 310 Dierdorf – PSA 9, 1978 Topps No. 343 Marshall – PSA 9, 1984 Topps No. 124 Marino – PSA 9, 1985 Topps No. 314 Marino – PSA 9, 1985 Topps No. 22 Leaders Payton – PSA 8.5, 1989 Score No. 270 Aikman – PSA 9, 2003 Topps Chrome No. 160 Harrison – PSA 9 and 2005 Finest No. FM7 Manning – PSA 10. Here’s a chronological breakdown of raw cards: 1954 Bowman No. 112 Hart – Very Good; 1955 Bowman (5) – No. 139 Trippi – Near-Mint o/c, 19 Hart – Nr-Mt, 25 Matson – Ex-Mt, 33 Hill – Ex-Mt and 78 – Nr-Mt; 1959 Topps (4) – No. 155 Taylor – Nr-Mt, 93 – Ex-Mt, 128 – Nr-Mt and 159 –Nr-Mt; 1964 Philadelphia Gum (8) – Excellent to Ex-Mt – Nos. 14, 51, 67, 78 Ringo, 84, 112, 126 and 194; 1965 Philadelphia Gum (2) – Excellent to Ex-Mt – No. 112 and 153; 1969 Topps (23) – Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt with some below – Nos. 4 (2), 12, 22 (2), 27, 28, 31, 36, 39, 42 (2 VG), 62, 68, 75 (2), 78, 84 (2), 86, 96 (2), 97 and 115; 1970 Topps (29) – Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt with Nitschke, Karras and No. 132 Checklist; 1971 Topps No. 258 Hadl – Nr-Mt; 1972 Topps (16) – Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt, including Plunkett, Buoniconti, Kelly (2), Scott, Simpson and Tarkenton; 1973 Topps (35) – Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt, including Bradshaw, Brodie, White, Culp, Buoniconti, Kelly, Houston and three Team Checklists; 1974 Topps (33) – Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt, including Dierdorf, Greene, Tarkenton, Jordan, Matuszak, Buoniconti and two Checklists; 1975 Topps (15) – Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt, including Olsen, White, Brown, Taylor, Bubba Smith, Staubach, Riggins and Tarkenton; 1976 Topps (4) – Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt, including Eller, Randy White Rookie (2); 1977 Topps (52) – Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt, including Webster, Stenerud, Eller, Houston, Greene, Greenwood, Jones, Fouts, Warfield, Selmon, Little and Theismann; 1978 Topps (52) – Ex-Mt to Nr-Mt, including White, Tarkenton, Griese, Rashad, Greenwood, Riggins, Stenerud, Marshall, Webster, Jones, Ham, Harris, three Highlights and seven Leaders; 1979 Topps (52) – Nr-Mt or better, including Csonka, Jones, Rashad, Guy, Greene, White, Dorsett, Simpson, Harris, Lofton, Staubach, Eller, Griese, Stallworth, Lambert, Payton and two Leaders; plus non mainstream cards from 1970 and 1971 Kellogg’s (14) – Nr-Mt, including Kelly and Lamonica (2); 1971 Topps inserts (3) – Namath, Csonka and Brodie; 1974 Nabisco Brockington; 1975 McDonald’s (3) – Bradshaw, Namath and Ferguson; 1974 Wonder Bread (8) – Page, Otto, Krause, Csonka and Greene (3); and 1975 Wonder Bread (32).
1950-1980s Topps Football Hoard with HOFers, Dozen PSA-Graded Blazers (406)
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