Favorite Non-Sports Cards
Mantlefan
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In response to the criticism on lack of Non-Sports threads here, let's see your favorite Non-Sports Cards.
Frank
Always looking for 1957 Topps BB in PSA 9!
Always looking for 1957 Topps BB in PSA 9!
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Isn't picking a favorite card like asking "Which of your kids is your favorite"? There is only one answer to that question...They're ALL my favorites!!
But since I can't post them ALL...I can pick out one for the board. (The truth is I can't even post one...I'm still too new at this...so if someone can help me??!!)
It's card #48 from the 1966 Topps Lost In Space set. I have a scan on the registry in my "Best Set Ever Made" set if someone wants to show it here!!
It's called One Eyed Terror. Anyone that was 7 years old when these cards came out still shutters when looking at that image. By todays standards, okay it's a little cheesy...I mean really...black and white photos??...but it does remind me of a more "innocent" time in the world....and isn't that why we all collect!!
Live long, and prosper.
"All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
"Daveeyy, Davey Crockett"
"King of the wild frontier"
Classic
Robert
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That's one thing that I love to hear people say when it comes to non-sports cards!!!
This card is the Superman rookie, or the Mickey Mouse rookie, or the Brown-Face Teddy Beanie Baby rookie....
It makes me wonder...after their rookie years....are they then stars, semi-stars....or in the field of Non-sports...all just plain old COMMONS???
Frank - I too can hear hear the Davy Crockett theme song playing when I see that card....but it keeps getting over-ridden but the Lost In Space theme...doo-doote, doo-doote, doo-doote, doo-doote, doo-doote, doo-doote, doo-doote, doo-doo-doo....
Live long, and prosper.
Robert
Frank...yep I hear that song EVERY time I look at that card. I have no idea what it's worth.
Joker...awesome card. What year is it?
Threeofsix...great card:
Always looking for 1957 Topps BB in PSA 9!
MANTLEFAN - I forgot that you had it out there for sale, a sweeter set doesn't exist. I guess you'll have to concentrate on your Zorro's (I'll have more on eBay tomorrow night)
JOKER - You can always buy that 1/1 Washington auto cut that was inserted into Topps this year, I think 20K may be in the ballpark...jay
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Jay - I'm a history buff and all, but if I'm spending $20k on a Washington auto, it's gonna be for an entire document suitable for display in my dream den
Robert
QUALITYCARDS - Ah yes the Herman Munster Rookie, another classic 1960's black and white design!!!
It of course reminds me of the age old card collecting debate....Mantle versus Williams....Mantle versus Williams.....Gomez versus Herman...Gomez versus Herman...(and you couldn't <gasp!> collect BOTH!!!)
I personally fall along the Munsters line.
Live long, and prosper.
<< <i>Isn't picking a favorite card like asking "Which of your kids is your favorite"? There is only one answer to that question...They're ALL my favorites!! >>
threeofsix, so true.
So here are just a few of my favorite kids... ahh I mean cards...
The Wacky Packages product parity and art work for me make it one of my all time favorites. Many of the titles like Schmutz if made today would never exist in our now overly politically correct society.
I also love almost any cards dealing with TV shows of the sixties, as I spent almost all of my free time as kid in front to the tv watching shows like: The Munsters, Hogan's Heroes and Gilligan's Island. While the design of both The Munsters and Hogan's Heroes cards are nothing to write home about, I too can hear the theme songs as I look at them. And as I ready the captions I hear the voices of the charters saying the lines.
Then there is Mars Attacks. The art work on these is just stunning and imaginative and has a whole story attached to it on the backs of the cards. This card has always been one of many favorites from his set with aliens running for their lives and a tank with four big guns! It’s 2004 and we still don’t have a tank like this.
-Mike
tough to choose just 1 card but today I pick this one, tomorrow maybe a different one.
Be very careful. The PSA modulator generally banes you for 2 weeks after posting pictures like that.
1948-76 Topps FB Sets
FB & BB HOF Player sets
1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
Wow, 20 years of nothing on this thread between the recent two posts. I wonder if that was a CU board resurrection record for digging out old stuff from the archives?
I would bet that if the non sports had their own forum there would be much more attention given. MOST big baseball,basketball, football and hockey fans and collectors have little or no interest in non sports.
There used to be a separate non-sports forum. It was eliminated because there was almost no traffic.
I am collecting 1953 Bowman Firefighters. I have the #2 set on the registry. I bought some high grade PSA singles that were on Ebay and then shortly after I bought the #2 set on the registry, making it stronger.
I have 2 sets of the 1977 Wonder Bread Star Wars 16 card set on the Registry.
Quaker Pack-O-Ten Braves Of Indian Nations 1956 - One of the #1 sets on the registry.
Quaker P.O.T Braves Of Indian Nations Sample set 1956. #2 set of only 2 on the registry.
Quaker P.O.T WarPlanes 1957 #6 of only 6 sets on the registry.
Ovaltine Indian Chiefs 1971 #6 of 7 sets on the registry.
Armour Star Indian Language 1956 #6 of 7 sets on the registry.
Shortly after my dad who was a volunteer fiirefighter died , I came across the Bowman Firefighter cards and thought they would be a great set to work on in memory of my dad.
Obviously from my avatar I am a big wacky pack guy, so I welcome non sports posts. 👍
I remember collecting them in the early 70's. I think we stuck them on anything and everything.
I did that lol, just an excuse to post some smokin hot A G cards
I think most baseball card collectors that started collecting cards in the 1950's - 1980's collected some non sports. When I was very young I would buy almost any type of cards just to see what they looked like.
In addition to Wackys I remember the Monster Initials set very fondly. 1974 was a big Topps year for me at age eight.
They really put out some weird stuff when we were kids.
I don't remember ever seeing those monster cards.
Dave, send those packs in to be graded and holdered by PSA so they can scrunch them up tightly and mess up the back seals!
Late 60's and early to mid 70's non-sports
Let's hear about some non sports cards.
When I was a kid ,if I went to the store and there were no baseball football, hockey or basketball cards I would buy some non sports cards because I was a wax pack junky.
These are the only two wackys I have submitted that are still one-of-one highest graded.
They sure are Wacky.
Anybody been working on some vintage non sports lately.
I've upgraded my Armour Star Franks Indian Language ( 1956 ) from 4th on the registry to 6th.
I also have been picking up nongraded Quaker Pack-O-Ten Indians SAMPLE cards ( 1956 ). I picked the 1 and only card that has not been graded in the set and I only need one more card to complete the full set. I really hope to send them off for grading within the next year. The only problem I'm afraid PSA is going to slam me with low grades on my vintage cards.
Lets here about some Vintage non sports.
Too many to mention! #1 1968 Donruss Flying Nun set and #2 1959 & 1966 Three Stooges sets on the registry. Pretty recently I picked up 159 of 240 cards in the 1956 Topps Jets set. Almost every card is the highest graded.
Late 60's and early to mid 70's non-sports
Yeah , I wish I had that problem.
I like the Three Stooges set .Sounds like you got some great sets there. I have come across the 1956 Topps Jets many times while I searching for the Quaker Warplanes . Thought about buying some of the Topps jets a few times.
Good luck with the sets.