T118 Worlds greatest Explorers

jamesgotpoorman · January 26, 2008 3:34AM

What a nice hard to find set. Just completed a second set in vg. Some day soon I will send in to get in slabs.

ArnyVee · January 27, 2008 12:06AM

That's a very cool set. I remember seeing someone's webpage where they had the whole set listed and scanned. Beautiful in high grade too. Good luck!

jamesgotpoorman · January 27, 2008 1:15AM

My first set is about a 4-6 range with the second 3-4. The picture was the only one I had, just in case someone was unfamiliar with the T118 set. I know that Griffins has the "king " of graded T118 sets and I was out bid by him to purchase the 2nd best set when it came up for sale recently.

Griffins · January 27, 2008 3:18AM

Actually the 2nd best set was offered to me offline and I cherry picked the ones I needed, and then bid on the rest since they seemed to be going quite low. I then sent the 2nd set off to a friend in a trade.
This is my favorite non sports set- incredible print quality, color, and selection of personalities. The poles had just been reached, Africa had yet to be fully mapped and it was be 43 years before someone reached the highest mountain and lived to tell of it. These guys (and women) were really blazing untrod ground- Stanley, Livingston, Hudson, Shackleton and the others.
They're also really hard to find in nice shape. 6's are tough, and there has only been 1 7 graded.
I just started (and almost completed) a similar set, the T68 Men of History/Heroes of History. 4 times the amount of cards, but very similar in terms of quality of design, printing, selection, etc. If you interested in a similar set that is a bit more challenging I'd highly recommend it.
Congrats on the completion of the T118's James!

jamesgotpoorman · January 27, 2008 10:58AM

Thanks. I saw that you had a few for sale. Just a little costly for me. I will look to buy them if my sub comes back lower that those 5's.

The T68 is more challenging!! I have only seen a few offered for sale and mostly poor- good range.

Griffins · January 27, 2008 2:33PM

There was a set of T68's on ebay last week, went for about $2400. There is another set closing in SCP/Sotheby's this week.

speeder · January 28, 2008 9:57AM

Just my opinion,

But these "type" of cards look SO MUCH BETTER in SGC holders..

The solid black of the SGC holder really brings out the wonderful coloring of these cards.

Not PSA bashing,,, just calling it like i see it.

Lee

ArnyVee · January 28, 2008 1:24PM

Lee, although I haven't seen any of them in SGC holders, they must be beautiful to look at. The colors would just pop off of that black background.

Anyone know of a 'cheap' low grade set available? What would it run?

jamesgotpoorman · January 28, 2008 1:53PM

Arny,
A "cheap low grade" set has run me about $3/card to see and upgrade my first set. Someone just had the set up for $74.99 for the set in that good/poor grade. It did not get any bids.

Griffins · January 28, 2008 4:35PM

I sold a mid grade raw set (probably 3's and 4's) for $250 and another lesser one for $200.
Depends on your definition of low grade.

ArnyVee · January 28, 2008 9:46PM

Oh wow, that's a lot lower than I expected.

If anyone knows of any PSA 3-5 level sets, please let me know. It would be great to have them graded by SGC with that year-long special that they are running.

jamesgotpoorman · January 29, 2008 7:31AM

Very low pop just went over 100 PSA graded.

1910 T118 WORLD'S GREATEST EXPLORERS
NAME VARIETY 1-2 3-4 5 6 7 TOTAL
Total: 5 33 31 28 1 101
ADOLPHUS W. GREELY EXPLORERS 0 2 0 0 0 3
AMOS BONSALL EXPLORERS 0 1 2 1 1 5
ANTHONY FIALA EXPLORERS 0 0 1 1 0 3
C.E. BORCHGREVINK EXPLORERS 0 2 0 1 0 3
CAPT.ROALD AMUNDSEN EXPLORERS 0 2 2 0 0 4
DAVID L. BRAINARD EXPLORERS 0 1 1 2 0 4
DAVID LIVINGSTONE EXPLORERS 0 2 0 0 0 2
DR. ELISHA KANE EXPLORERS 0 3 2 2 0 7
DUKE OF ABRUZZI EXPLORERS 0 1 1 2 0 4
FRIDTJOF NANSEN EXPLORERS 0 2 0 2 0 4
GEO. W. DE LONG EXPLORERS 0 2 2 0 0 4
GEO. W. MELVILLE EXPLORERS 1 2 3 0 0 6
HENRY HUDSON EXPLORERS 1 1 0 1 0 4
HENRY M. STANLEY EXPLORERS 0 0 2 2 0 4
JAMES B. LOCKWOOD EXPLORERS 0 2 0 2 0 4
LT. E.H.SHACKLETON EXPLORERS 0 3 1 2 0 6
MATTHEW A. HENSON EXPLORERS 0 1 1 2 0 4
MISS ANNIE S. PECK EXPLORERS 0 1 0 2 0 3
OTTO SVERDRUP EXPLORERS 0 1 0 2 0 3
ROBERT A. BARTLETT EXPLORERS 1 0 1 0 0 2
ROBERT E. PEARY EXPLORERS 0 0 5 1 0 6
S.A. ANDREE EXPLORERS 1 0 2 1 0 4
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN EXPLORERS 0 2 2 1 0 5
SVEN HEDIN EXPLORERS 0 0 2 1 0 3
W.S. SCHLEY EXPLORERS 1 2 1 0 0 4

Hard to find over PSA 3/4==== The PSA 5/6/7 are in the top two registry sets.

Elemenopeo · January 30, 2008 8:43AM

I completed a low- to mid-grade raw set of these awhile back and have been upgrading when I can... It doesn't seem like these show up on eBay nearly as often as they used to, though.

I'd especially like to find a decent Adolphus Greely. The one I have is off-register, off-center and beat up. A few months ago, through my subscription to an eBay search for all things Aldophus Greely, I came across an autograph of his... and on a whim put in what I thought was kind of a low bid and won it, to my surprise. Kinda cool, but now it's one of those things where I look at it and think.... why in the world do I have this.

Of course, I scan everything I get these days and store it all in my Photobucket account... here's a link for the 118 set.

jamesgotpoorman · January 30, 2008 11:34AM

I have found that Henson and hudson are my hardest to get in ex condition.

ArnyVee · February 6, 2008 9:52AM

Woo hoo! Got my first graded copies....I absolutely LOVE these in the SGC holders...the scans cannot do them justice. They look so much more like works of art!

What do you guys think?

jamesgotpoorman · February 6, 2008 10:51AM

ArnyVee · February 9, 2008 1:42AM

They will be crossed over to SGC (unless you think that I can't pull a direct cross as far as grades go)......

What are your thoughts on these crossing over?

jamesgotpoorman · February 9, 2008 5:59AM

They look to good in SGC holders not to cross over. Also with the $5 per card you can not beat the cost.

Arny---- I see that you got cards from SGC. How much was the shipping/handling? About the same as PSA? Also how are the POP # in SGC?
I saw that there is only one registered set.

ArnyVee · February 10, 2008 11:30AM

<< <i>They look to good in SGC holders not to cross over. Also with the $5 per card you can not beat the cost.

Arny---- I see that you got cards from SGC. How much was the shipping/handling? About the same as PSA? Also how are the POP # in SGC?
I saw that there is only one registered set. >>

I actually bought those SGCs from someone that had already graded them. I've got a lot of about 10 to 12 cards that I'll be going over and then submitting to SGC (if they look at least 5ish) along with my set of '87 Wrestling cards.

I haven't looked at the POP #s yet for the SGC cards, but I haven't seen many of these around.

jamesgotpoorman · February 10, 2008 11:58AM

I have two sets that I will be sending in now that I have seen the $5 plus how nice they look in the holders.

jamesgotpoorman · April 22, 2008 1:29PM

THEY POPPED! Here is some of the results.

jamesgotpoorman · April 22, 2008 1:31PM

more
All for sale PM Offer.

I Just had 2 sets graded and will post some as they are available.

Pm if interested in certain ones.

ArnyVee · May 1, 2008 10:43AM

Boy, these cards are beautiful even is low grades. Any extra PSA 4/SGC 50 quality raw or graded ones available?

T118 Worlds greatest Explorers

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