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100% Finally! Yay Me!

helionauthelionaut Posts: 1,555 ✭✭
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Well it took a year longer than I thought, 4 years, 4 and a half months altogether, but today I received the 660th card in my PSA 8 1975 Topps set. It's the 19th set on the All-Time list to reach 100%, and even though it's not very highly ranked, I'm pretty happy and proud to finally be done. Thanks to fellow collectors who helped me complete it, both by supplying cards as well as a couple deep-pocketed guys who paid big money for low pops I happened to have that I was able to pick up cheaper later. Special thanks to Shane (1954) whose 1971 Greatest Moments set with the individual notes on each card inspired my interest in the set registry by reminding me that every card can be remarkable, answered some questions I had about the set and the registry, and soon sold me my first graded card (a 71 TGM Gibson). I don't know if I'll continue upgrading very far, but I have 8.10 as a final goal in mind.
WANTED:
2005 Origins Old Judge Brown #/20 and Black 1/1s, 2000 Ultimate Victory Gold #/25
2004 UD Legends Bake McBride autos & parallels, and 1974 Topps #601 PSA 9
Rare Grady Sizemore parallels, printing plates, autographs

Nothing on ebay

Comments

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,604 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats
  • gregmo32gregmo32 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭
    Great job! Can't wait to finish one of mine!
    I am buying and trading for RC's of Wilt Chamberlain, George Mikan, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Bob Cousy!
    Don't waste your time and fees listing on ebay before getting in touch me by PM or at gregmo32@aol.com !
  • Kurtman9Kurtman9 Posts: 553
    Congrats, helionaut! I hope to have that feeling one day soon for my 61s.
    Collecting Vintage Baseball.
    My ebay listings
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Great Job helio. You are a wealth of knowledge regarding that set too.

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Atta boy! What were the last couple of toughies?
    Mike
    Bosox1976
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    hey, great job man! Are ALL of the cards PSA 8? The 75's are "almost" as sweet as my 78's image

    Good for you image

    ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240

  • AlfiewtAlfiewt Posts: 337 ✭
    Congratulations! Its always nice to get that last card, and 660 cards is quite an accompishment. I really like the design of the 1975 Topps set. How about adding scans for all of the cards. I would love to be able to see high quality scans of all the cards in high grade. Lately have have been going though my cards and scanning them all. Its really fun to pull them all out and look at them for once. Plus, I think it really adds a lot to you registry set when you have scans off all of the cards.
    My Don Mattingly and Dock Ellis cards
  • ArnyVeeArnyVee Posts: 4,245 ✭✭
    Congrats to you!
    * '72 BASEBALL #15 100%
    * C. PASCUAL BASIC #3
    * T. PEREZ BASIC #4 100%
    * L. TIANT BASIC #1
    * DRYSDALE BASIC #4 100%
    * MAGIC MASTER #4/BASIC #3
    * PALMEIRO MASTER/BASIC #1
    * '65 DISNEYLAND #2
    * '78 ELVIS PRESLEY #6
    * '78 THREE'S COMPANY #1

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    WaltDisneyBoards
  • aro13aro13 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭
    Congratulations!! Completing a graded set with 660 cards is quite an accomplishment.
  • AlfiewtAlfiewt Posts: 337 ✭
    Congratulations again. Here is a link to your set. Have you decided what set you are going to collect next?
    My Don Mattingly and Dock Ellis cards
  • srs1asrs1a Posts: 398 ✭
    SWEET! Congratulations.
    Dr S. of the Dead Donkeys MC
  • qualitycardsqualitycards Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭
    Congrats! image
    Almost 4 1/2 years is impressive as well.
    Glad you stuck with it...jay
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    Website: http://www.qualitycards.com
  • rvcrvc Posts: 559 ✭✭
    way to go!
    Bob
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    Congrats! Any set completion is a big achievment, but sticking it out 4 1/2 years really shows a lot of tenacity.

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭

    Wow. Really fantastic, man. Congratulations!


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  • cmokingcmoking Posts: 195
    Congrats! I love the 1975 set as many others do. It seems to be the clear favorite in the 70s...and well deserved on set design in my opinion.

    What do you do now with the set? It seems many collectors sell off a set of graded cards after a long road of putting it together. Is the chase the fun part of collecting to you? Or will the set be with you for a long time?
  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    Congrats and very nice job on a great set.Can not wait till I finish my 59.Less than 12% to go.
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,456 ✭✭✭
    nice job! congrats!!
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
    Congrats image
    "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
    -- Yogi Berra

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  • RobbyRobby Posts: 672 ✭✭✭
    image .......Very nice set Helionaut , congrats on reaching 100% .................I am surprised that the Fisk card was the last one needed to complete the set , since the pop is so high on them ! Is it a tough card to find nicely centered , or what ? Good luck on the upgrades !!!!!! .........................Robbie
    Collect 1964 Topps Baseball
    1963 Fleer
    Lou Brock Master Set
  • jackstrawjackstraw Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭
    Great job! I am going to look at it right now!
    Collector Focus

    ON ITS WAY TO NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658
  • tkd7tkd7 Posts: 1,799 ✭✭
    Congratulations. It is always nice to see a board member complete a set and it is even better when a fellow board member was an inspiration.

    '75 Topps is a great set. I'm sure you will enjoy it.
  • helionauthelionaut Posts: 1,555 ✭✭
    Thanks for the nice comments. The Fisk was the last card I got just because it worked out that way. I knew early on that the ones to concentrate on were the tough commons, and the HOFers would always be available. I obviously could've gotten that card a long time ago, but in addition to being tactical I'm also a bottom-feeding, shallow-pocketed guy. I had been hoping to get one for about $12, but it was worth the extra $9 I paid for this one, costs be damned to complete it.

    I don't know what's next but it will be something with "gravitas". I like the idea of having a 1950s set, and I'm really thinking about a 1959 set in 8, but some of the prices are scary. Maybe by the time I am ready to wrap that one up, the $300 "common" cards will have dropped a lot. I might have to settle for 7s on some of those. Other ideas are the big 3 (1952T in 5-6, T-206 in 4, 1933 Goudey in 5-7), or 1963 or 1964 or 1953 Topps or 1965 or 1970 or 1967 or 1972 or 1962 or 1961 or 1953 Bowman Color or 1955 Topps Pins or 1964 Topps Coins (started on that one once) or 1952 Bowman or 1949 Bowman (started on that one once, too) or the master sets of Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Hank Aaron and Roberto Clemente, or about a hundred others.
    WANTED:
    2005 Origins Old Judge Brown #/20 and Black 1/1s, 2000 Ultimate Victory Gold #/25
    2004 UD Legends Bake McBride autos & parallels, and 1974 Topps #601 PSA 9
    Rare Grady Sizemore parallels, printing plates, autographs

    Nothing on ebay
  • mercurynutmercurynut Posts: 3,207
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