April 3, 2025: Spring Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/3/2025
Here's an old-fashioned style auction lot with high-grade vintage Topps cards from 1959 to the mid-1980s, an assortment that includes mostly mainstream Topps issues but also some cards from peripheral issues like 1975 Topps Minis, 1977 Cloth Stickers, 1970s O-Pee-Chees and even a glistening 2001 Topps Heritage Chrome Greg Maddux. That’s a pretty cool card even amid a vintage group that features 40 Hall of Famers. Overall, it’s a remarkably high-grade group, most Near-Mint or better, with perhaps a handful of Ex-Mts and some anomalies noted. Here’s a breakdown: 1) 1959-60 Topps (22) – seven from 1959, with most of the remaining 1960 Topps Series Two cards either off center or miscut; 2) 1962 Topps Baseball Stamps Inserts (5) – Two-Stamp Panels – Near-Mint to Mint, including Allison, Bruton, Callison, Hoak and Shaw; 3) 1964 Topps Giants (2) – Ex-Mt to Near-Mint – Boyer and Groat; 4) 1966-76 (23) – including a 1972 Schoendienst and 1976 cards of Joe Torre and Ferguson Jenkins Traded; 5) 1967 Topps Poster Inserts – Ex-Mt-Plus, Campaneris and Frank Howard; 6) 1971 Topps Supers (24) – Headlined by Bob Gibson and Dick Allen in a group that presents much better than its technical Fair to Very Good grades, with the Fair designation typically stemming from staining on the reverse and the better grades nudged by barely visible wrinkling on the card backs; 7) 1971 O-Pee-Chee (15) – typical O-Pee-Chee presentation, essentially Ex-Mt to Near-Mint, with hints of the legendary Canadian “rough cut” – with Tony Conigliaro, Menke, Osteen, Parker, Rader, Rojas and Tolan; 8) 1974 Topps Deckle Edge Jeff Burroughs; 9) 1974 O-Pee-Chee (8) – Near-Mint, with Downing Rookie, Hisle, Kingman, Carbo, Tolan, Braves Team and a Checklist; 10) 1975 O-Pee-Chee (15) – Near-Mint with a couple of off centers; 11) 1975 Topps Baseball (44) – headlined by Hall of Famers Willie Stargell and Ron Santo along with the likes of Bell (2), Cash (2), Dierker, Geronimo (2), Giusti (2), Gullett, Cliff Johnson, Dave Johnson, Cleon Jones, Madlock, Mayberry, McBride, Montanez (2), Nettles, Rogers (3), Rojas (2), Santo, Spikes, Stargell, Torrez (2) and Unser; 12) 1975 Topps Minis (9); 13) 1977 Topps (50) – including Jackson (o/c), Perry, Guidry, two Leaders and two Team cards; 14) 1977 Topps Cloth Stickers (4) – with Tiant, Cedeno and Hargrove (2); 15) 1980 Topps (44) – with nine Hall of Famers, including Yastrzemski, Murray (2), Jenkins, Carter, Winfield, Blyleven, Fingers, Perry and four Specials; 16) 1982 Topps (25) – with a dozen Hall of Famers, including Smith Rookie (2), Brett (2), Schmidt and Bench; 17) 1982 O-Pee-Chee Baseball Poster Inserts (12), including Carter and Stieb; 18) 1983-84 Topps (15) – with Rose, Schmidt, Carlton, Yastrzemski, Seaver and Carew; 19) 1981-84 Fleer and Donruss (9) – including Parker, Rice, Ryan and Palmer (3); 20) 2002 Topps Heritage Chrome Greg Maddux CP12 No. 431/552; 21) 2020 Panini Contenders Diamond Ticket (Autograph) Brendan McKay 12/15; 22) 2020 Panini Prism (Autograph) Austin Hendrick 39/50: and 23) Miscellaneous (10) – including two Desert Storm.
1959-1980s Vintage Topps Baseball Group With 40 HOFers (325)
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