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1954 Topps Baseball Complete!

What a great set, and apparently extremely popular given the number of completed sets on the registry. How could you not love a set with two Ted Williams cards as bookends? The only thing to make it better would be having a Mantle and Musial, but I guess we can't have everything.

My set is #14 with a 7.42 rating, (I started it in May) and eventually I'll probably slowly begin upgrading it to 8.00, but for now I'm just happy that its complete. If however anyone has a PSA 7 or better #182 I'd love to talk with you. That's the only card below a PSA 7 in my set (its a 6) and its only a placeholder until something better comes along.

Steve

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  • BugOnTheRugBugOnTheRug Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭
    Congrats Steve. It's a great set and anything 7 or higher should present itself very well. It's no wonder mid 50's sets are so popular..............
    Bill
  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭
    Good stuff, Steve
    I am actively buying MIKE SCHMIDT gem mint baseball cards. Also looking for any 19th century cabinets of Philadephia Nationals. Please PM with additional details.
  • 1420sports1420sports Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭
    Nice job Steve! I agree on the set lacking Mantle and Musial .... however Keith's rendition of what the Mantle may have looked like was pretty cool.
    collecting various PSA and SGC cards
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Nice job Steve!

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • seinbigdseinbigd Posts: 206 ✭✭
    Congrats!
  • steve, what took you so long to get 250 high graded 54's? did you take the summer off? awesome job!!!! matrix
  • natetrooknatetrook Posts: 613 ✭✭✭
    Great job!!

    Did it cost you more than SMR value to put that set together?

  • Thanks All!

    Nate - I'm into the set a couple of K above SMR, with a few scattered common card costs basis unaccounted for. This set was one of the easiest I've put together for a couple of reasons:

    First, it's the smallest set I've done at 250 cards. Second, over the past couple of years the pop explosion of 7's and 8's has made it really easy to pick up 2/3'rds of the set fast in the early phase of collecting, and the last third ain't really that hard either. I don't really care about 9's so I don't compete there. Due to its smaller size this set costs a lot less to collect in the better grades - you might say I have some experience there.

    These and other factors probably account for the popularity of the 1954 Topps set, givcen the sheer number of them on the registry.

    SW
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