October 24, 2024: Fall Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/24/2024
Offered is a massive group of 10 complete sets of the 1985 Topps Baseball issue, one boasting an uncommonly large and imposing Rookie card class that includes Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett and several others long thought to Cooperstown locks or hopefuls: Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, Doc Gooden, Orel Hershiser and Eric Davis. This huge group is pretty uniformly Near-Mint to Near-Mint to better, with a few Near-Mint and with 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 1985 Topps issue (792) presents in a stunning, uniform and consistent fashion, a consistency that extends to each of the 10 offered sets.
1985 Topps Baseball High-Grade Complete Sets (10)
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