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I Just Landed My Non Sport Ultimate White Whale!!!
thedutymon
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Good Day,
9 years ago I walked into a Sports Card store in Denver and noticed a Non Sports section. In it was a stack of cards which I came to know inimately as the Topps 1953 Who-Z-At Star Cards set of 80 cards of then Current Top Movie Stars, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Ect. That particular stack was very low grade but I became hooked. These were one of Topps early Non Sports sets and the card stock used was very prone to edge wear and seperating and just generally poor manufacturing. At that time I checked PSA, that I was just getting into, and there were a couple of hundred examples graded with 2 8's, no 9's or 10's.
Over the next 9 years I have Graded about 400 of the 1060 graded to date. There has never been an 9 or 10 awarded. It has become almost an obsession to find the first 9 (There will never be a 10 due to card stock). I have tried and tried, and tried and tried, in the meantime sub'ing about 35 of the existing 75 each 8's.
Today Is My Day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YeeHah
1 16082960 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1953 WHO-Z-AT STAR? 73 MONA FREEMAN Card US
2 1 16082961 MINT 9 1953 WHO-Z-AT STAR? 45 AVA GARDNER Card US
3 1 16082962 NEAR MINT 7 1956 WHO-Z-AT STAR? 49 ESTHER WILLIAMS Card US
4 1 16082963 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1953 WHO-Z-AT STAR? 80 J. CARROL NAISH Card US
Neil
9 years ago I walked into a Sports Card store in Denver and noticed a Non Sports section. In it was a stack of cards which I came to know inimately as the Topps 1953 Who-Z-At Star Cards set of 80 cards of then Current Top Movie Stars, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Ect. That particular stack was very low grade but I became hooked. These were one of Topps early Non Sports sets and the card stock used was very prone to edge wear and seperating and just generally poor manufacturing. At that time I checked PSA, that I was just getting into, and there were a couple of hundred examples graded with 2 8's, no 9's or 10's.
Over the next 9 years I have Graded about 400 of the 1060 graded to date. There has never been an 9 or 10 awarded. It has become almost an obsession to find the first 9 (There will never be a 10 due to card stock). I have tried and tried, and tried and tried, in the meantime sub'ing about 35 of the existing 75 each 8's.
Today Is My Day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YeeHah
1 16082960 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1953 WHO-Z-AT STAR? 73 MONA FREEMAN Card US
2 1 16082961 MINT 9 1953 WHO-Z-AT STAR? 45 AVA GARDNER Card US
3 1 16082962 NEAR MINT 7 1956 WHO-Z-AT STAR? 49 ESTHER WILLIAMS Card US
4 1 16082963 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1953 WHO-Z-AT STAR? 80 J. CARROL NAISH Card US
Neil
Actually Collect Non Sport, but am just so full of myself I post all over the place !!!!!!!
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SKY
Well Done Neil , I'm sure theres at least 1 collector of this set that would be very interested in that card .
Way to Go Fella .
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Mark
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