1971 Bazooka "No Numbers" Are they that rare?

rbdjr1

Just got back a '71 Bazooka (No Number) Pete Rose. PSA gave it a PSA 8 (MK). As someone put a tiny "71" on the blank back. Personally, I thought it may have been a "hand cut 9"! Pretty close!

Anyway this is only the second one ever graded, and only 14 have been graded, so far for the entire set. Are 1971 Bazooka "no number hand-cuts" that scarce???

...Or are their "tons of '71 Bazooka's just waiting to "explode" (notice the pun! LOL!) onto the "graded material" market?

rbd

P.S. I bought the Rose Bazooka card to get PSA to add it to the Rose Master Set! (Which takes PSA months to add a card to a set! ...And it really "wizzes me-off" that PSA takes sooooooooooooo long!!!!!!!! LOL!)

bobsbbcards

The 1971 "no numbers" aren't rare at all. I don't know how long PSA has been grading the '71 panels or the hand cut single cards, but I don't imagine it's that long (or there'd be more submissions). The tough ones from '71 are the numbered variations. My guess (if I was threatened into making one) would be 25 to 1 for the "no numbers" versus the numbered. Since nobody's threatening me, I'll refuse to guess.

Cool card though! You could always claim the '71' on the back makes it a numbered variation.

Edited to add that I noticed the pun.

jrdolan

Instead of sending it to PSA you could have made the 71 into 71/100 and sold it for a fortune over at Beckett.