July 15, 2021: Summer Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/15/2021
Presented is a truly impressive array of the coveted 1957 Topps Baseball issue, an assortment without duplication that is mostly Ex-Mt to Near-Mint to Mint (76 percent) and includes many of the great stars of the era and 52 cards from the difficult Middle Series of Nos. 265-352. This is a grouping that could be used to launch on a high-grade complete set (67 percent of a complete set) or to upgrade even the nicest of existing sets, with super cards with excellent photo registration, color and gloss, plus crisp white borders and clean, uniform card backs. It comes out to 48 percent Near-Mint to Near-Mint to Mint or better, 26 percent Ex-Mt to Ex-Mt-Plus and 17 percent Excellent to Excellent-Plus. Here’s the breakdown: Near-Mint to Near-Mint to Mint or better (128, including one PSA 8 common - No. 390 Bertoia), including Logan, Mossi, Labine, Lemon, Hoeft, Rhodes, Moon, Piersall, Foytack, McDaniel, Drabowsky, Dark, Byrne, Thompson, Mizell, Lopata, Pafko, Narleski, Al Smith, Friend, Lary, Woodling, Jones, Yost, Law, McDougald, Maxwell, Skinner, Grissom, Jensen, Burgess, Loes, Kline, Ennis, Thomson, Turley, Purkey, Pizarro, Battey, plus Middle Series cards of Haddix, Cerv, Garver, Abernethy, Noren, Cunningham and Bolling; Ex-Mt to Ex-Mt-Plus (77), including Dick Williams, Long, Maglie, Conley, Runnels, Carrasquel, Dickson, Vernon, Boone, Antonelli, Hegan, Power, Kucks, Trucks, Sauer Pascual, Lynch and Landis, plus Middle Series cards of O’Connell, Hoak, Sam Jones, Garcia, Goodman, Cimoli, Ramos, Hearn and King; Excellent to Excellent-Plus (47), including Larry Jackson, Howell, Lopez, Temple, Sturdivant, Bruton, Valo, McMillan, Wertz, Nuxhall, Buhl, Triandos, Post, Mantilla, Hemus, McLish, Sanford, Tanner and Smaller, plus Middle Series cards of Kellner, Lepcio, Collins and Surkont; VG-Ex to VG-Ex-Plus (20), including Gomez, Lawrence, Adcock, Crandall, Simmons and Arroyo, plus Middle Series cards of Covington and Miksis; a single card, Tom Morgan, is Very Good.
High-Grade 1957 Topps Baseball Partial Set, Many Stars, 52 From Middle Series (263)
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