Post Cereal Baseball Sets
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There has not been much discussion on these Baseball sets in a long while so I though I would attempt to get a thread going.
I have been working on the 1963 Post Cereal Baseball set for a couple of years now. I have found it very difficult to find these cards in high grade and in some cases find any examples at all.
Because these cards came from the back of Post Cereal boxes and were "cut out" by hand, (Apparently by blind children with dull scissors) they are proving to be quite rare, especially in high grade. In order for these cards to receive a grade from PSA they must have the entire black border around the card showing. Even with some very nice NrMt cards I have found, often these cards were cut just inside the border and end up with the dreaded PSA Authentic (PSA 1) grade.
Of course I am always looking for additions to my set. Most of the cards in my set I have purchased raw and submitted. The very few that do appear on Ebay or Naxom I have purchased, but it's not many.
Any thoughts on this set would be appreciated. I am still trying to learn more about these cards.
I have been working on the 1963 Post Cereal Baseball set for a couple of years now. I have found it very difficult to find these cards in high grade and in some cases find any examples at all.
Because these cards came from the back of Post Cereal boxes and were "cut out" by hand, (Apparently by blind children with dull scissors) they are proving to be quite rare, especially in high grade. In order for these cards to receive a grade from PSA they must have the entire black border around the card showing. Even with some very nice NrMt cards I have found, often these cards were cut just inside the border and end up with the dreaded PSA Authentic (PSA 1) grade.
Of course I am always looking for additions to my set. Most of the cards in my set I have purchased raw and submitted. The very few that do appear on Ebay or Naxom I have purchased, but it's not many.
Any thoughts on this set would be appreciated. I am still trying to learn more about these cards.
Collecting all cards - Gus Zernial
Post Cereal both raw and PSA Graded (1961-1963)
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Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
set registry id Don Johnson Collection
ebay id truecollector14
My understanding is that not every card came on the box, just as not every card came from the perferated sheets. Makes building the '61 set very difficult.
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Collecting all cards - Gus Zernial
Post Cereal both raw and PSA Graded (1961-1963)
It is a very tough set because some cards did not come on boxes, only from the company and some cards were on boxes of cereal that kids didn't like so not many of them made it into collections. How many kids ate Grape Nuts at a young age. Not me!
Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
set registry id Don Johnson Collection
ebay id truecollector14