October 24, 2024: Fall Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/24/2024
Offered is an imposing group of seven complete sets of the 1983 Topps Baseball issue, arguably the coolest design that Topps delivered in the decade and one boasting the important Rookie cards of Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg. This huge group is pretty uniformly Near-Mint to Near-Mint to better, with a few Near-Mint and boasting exceptional color and gloss and super-clean card backs; with new competitors in the arena, Topps seemed to up its game in the 1980s with the arrival of competitors in the business with larger checklists and seemingly sharper photography and more vivid and crisp colors. There is no discernible difference between the Tier One Hall of Famers and the rest of the gang; there are the occasional off-center cards that would typically be encountered in issues yielded in total or in part from vending. Several of the sets in the array display the iconic “vending bend” that so eloquently announces that these are uncirculated cards. The 1983 Topps issue (792) presents in a stunning, uniform and consistent fashion, a consistency that extends to each of the seven offered sets.
1983 Topps Baseball High-Grade Complete Sets (7)
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