Is the 1960 TOPPS football set worthy of collecting?

1960toppsguy

carew4me

Are you worthy of collecting it?

thefootballcardstore

Yes, very nice selection of players at a reasonable price.
You just can't go wrong collecting vintage football sets.

With that said I have two graded sets for sale on the registry in medium grade.

MorrellMan

Great set - lots of nice cards. Beware of centering issues and printing flaws such as snow and fisheyes. The Unitas card is particular difficult to get centered.

carew4me

Small set of 132. You could build a complete set ALL PSA 8 for less than $2000.

What are the low pops in this set?

Mantlefan

I had a lot of fun putting my set together and was able to sell it easily when I finished it. The Unitas card is probably the toughest...no nines exist. The Ameche, Galimore and George Preas cards were also tough. Centering and print dots were a big problem for me.

Southerncards

My example of the previously mentioned Unitas card.


Centering issues and snow, not to mention John U's "lost in space" look.

1960toppsguy

Thanks for the input, just seems odd that most PSA-8 1960 Baseball Cards go through the roof and the Football cards can be had for less than grading fees in many instances, makes very little sense to a baseball card collector, almost to good to be true.

bowdowntome

This is probably one of my favorite 60's football sets, even without a marquee rookie card. Lot's of affordable stars and HOFer's. Who cares if the 8's don't stack up (pricewise) to the 8's of baseball, all the more reason to collect it in my opinion.

I haven't bought any graded cards for my set, and the majority was put together before grading became popular anyway, so I had no idea that the Unitas was tough with regards to centering.

Here is my raw Unitas,



It's an upgrade from my previous one. It's pretty good on centering, but does have slight touches on the corners and some small printing "flecks" here and there. Still, I like it and probably won't upgrade it further............unless a greaaaaaaaaaaaatttt deal falls into my lap somewhere.

SKINSFAN

How's that 1950's football olympics page coming? >>



Hmm, was I going to do one of those? Should be easier since there are a lot fewer sets. I'll put it on my list. I'm working on a new ebay search page, too.

Mike

Try collecting nines i think you will find the prices may make you feel better