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1955 Topps Baseball Discussion

I have recently begun my own 55' 'Horizontal Challenge'. I was hoping to flush out some of our resident 55T experts to talk about nuances, strengthes & weaknesses of this set.
I am building this in PSa 6+ hoping to get a good chunk of the commons and minor stars in 7 grade.
Are the high numbers inherently tougher to acquire? What precipitated the shortage on those originally? Aside from the big bucks needed to acquire the stars are there any particular commons that are harder to find or harder to acquire?
Any general overview of the set would be useful, informative and entertaining.
RayB69Topps
Never met a Vintage card I didn't like!

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  • spacktrackspacktrack Posts: 1,084 ✭✭
    If I remember correctly there was some very interesting discussion earlier in 2003(?) regarding the sale of an entire PSA graded '55 set in a Mastro(?) auction. All my recollections are vague, so I will try and find the thread I remember.
  • spacktrackspacktrack Posts: 1,084 ✭✭
    It was th 2nd Finest Set of All-Time sold through Sportscards Plus auctions.

    Basilone's analysis is here.
  • CWCW Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭
    I am far from being an expert on this set, but I have read in
    a vintage card publication that #3 Art Fowler is tough to find
    centered & sharp. PSA 7 shouldn't be too tough, though.
  • spacktrackspacktrack Posts: 1,084 ✭✭
    Population info for #3 Art Fowler

    3 ART FOWLER 1 1 16 21 22 0 11 1 0 0 0 76

    22 PSA 7s and 11 PSA 8s

    The lowest pop for an 8 in the set.
  • CWCW Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭
    Hmm, I guess that is pretty tough, even for NM.
    Thanks for the pop info!
  • BasiloneBasilone Posts: 2,492 ✭✭

    I no longer have the spreadsheet on the web..but if you have excel...feel free to email me and I will shoot you over the spreadsheet.

    John
  • jersterjerster Posts: 828 ✭✭✭
    Ray-
    Just sent you a PM.

    Jerry
    aka "jerster"
  • Is it me or are prices coming down? I just won a Koufax RC PSA 7 for $100 under SMR. Needless to say, I'm pretty happy- the card is nicely centered too!
  • CWCW Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭
    I've noticed that the supply is up right now, at least on
    ebay. I'm doing searches on "1955 Topps PSA" all the time
    for my All-American set, and usually I'll get 3 pages of results.
    Right now ebay has 9 pages of listings under that title.

    Nice pick-up on the Koufax, onegaucho. A true classic!
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