July 21, 2022: Summer Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/21/2022
Presented is an imposing group of mostly 1950s Topps baseball, an array that includes more than two dozen Hall of Famers and a boatload of Specials, All-Stars and stars, plus a handful of important Bowmans and nearly a dozen of the popular 1947-66 Exhibit Card Co. classics. The bulk of the huge group is from the three classic Topps sets from 1957-59, an array that is headlined by high-grade cards from the great Sandy Koufax, who is also represented by a similarly outstanding example of his second-year Topps card from 1956. It’s an old-fashioned style auction lot, loaded with value and just begging for a good deal of close examination. We'll do our part with a comprehensive listing, starting with a lonely 1911 T205 Gold Border Robert Byrne (Fair) and a 1952 Wheaties Tin Tray Stan Musial in Excellent condition, with some of the common paper residue on the back. In the listing that follows, the card indicated is the player’s regular-issue version unless otherwise noted. The breakdown: 1947-66 Exhibits (11) – Excellent to Ex-Mt, including Aaron, Mays, Clemente, Musial, Hodges (2) and Boyer; 1952 Wheaties Lemon Portrait – Ex-Mt; 1952 Bowman No. 40 – VG-Ex; 1952 Topps (3) – No. 5 – Very Good, No. 87 – Good and No. 221 – VG (mk); 1953 Bowman Color (3) – No. 6 and No. 152 – Very Good and No. 37 – Evidence of Trim; 1953 Topps (29) – mostly different, Good to Very Good, with No. 279 – Near-Mint; 1954 Bowman (11) – couple of dupes, Very Good to Excellent, with Schoendienst and No. 169 – Near-Mint; 1954 Topps (66) – with a bit of duplication, Very Good to Excellent, with some below and a few above the range, including Mathews (Good), Conley (2), Dropo, Easter, Fain, Galan, Carver, Jansen, Jensen, Law, Lemon, Mizell, Moon (2), Pesky, Rowe, Stanky and Turley; 1955 Bowman (6) – Excellent to Ex-Mt, with a couple below, including Podres and Furillo; 1955 Topps (36) – Excellent to Ex-Mt, with some below, including Irvin (Fair), Mathews (Good), Podres (Ex-Mt-Plus) and Zimmer (Fair); 1956 Topps (7) – mostly Good to Very Good, with a couple above, including No. 79 Koufax (Ex-Mt); 1957 Topps (120) – Excellent to Ex-Mt, with some above and below the range and a bit of duplication plus a handful of cards from the Middle Series, including No. 302 Koufax (Near-Mint), Kell (2), Adcock, Bruton, Burdette, Crandall, Dark, Ennis, Friend, Gilliam, Groat (2), Haddix, Larsen, Lemon, Logan (2), Long, Moon and Wertz, plus Braves and Orioles Team cards; 1958 Topps (340) – some duplication, Very Good to Ex-Mt, with some below and the emphasis Excellent to Ex-Mt, including No. 187 Koufax – Ex-Mt, No. 476 Musial All-Star – Near-Mint, No. 487 Mantle All-Star – Very Good, Mathews, Minoso, Drysdale, Doby (2), Flood Rookie (2), Adcock, Ashburn, Bell, Boyer, Burgess, Crandall, Bunning (2), Ennis (3), Face, Friend (3), Gilliam, Groat, Haddix (2), Herzog, Kluszewski (2), Law, Lemon (3), Long, Martin, Neal, Post, Roseboro (2), Sauer, Thomas, Triandos, Turley, Dick Williams and Woodling, plus 12 Team cards, nine All-Stars and three Combination cards; 1959 Topps (313) – mostly Excellent to Near-Mint, with some below, including No. 163 Koufax (Ex-Mt), a dozen high numbers (three All-Stars), a near-complete run of the Rookie Stars subset in Series Two (37), 10 Baseball Thrills, 12 Combination cards, 15 Team cards and six World Series – plus Mathews, Doby (2), Frick (2), Giles, Alou Rookie, Adcock, Antonelli (2), Avila (3), Boyer (2), Brosnan, Covington, Friend (2), Furillo, Gilliam, Groat, Haddix, Kluszewski, Kuenn, Malzone (2), Maxwell, Mueller (8), Pafko, Podres (3), Power, Richardson (2), Runnels (2), Sievers, Triandos (4), Turley and White; 1954-55 Johnston Cookies Milwaukee Braves (16); and lower-grade Topps cards from 1950s-60s (approximately 200).
1952-59 Topps and Bowman Baseball Massive Group, 28 HOFers (1,165)
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