95 Down--1969 Topps Football Completed in PSA 8 or Better

Davalillo

Sets are getting hard to complete. Its difficult to find that last card or two or three in many sets I collect. So what to do to keep collecting? Generally I am not the kind to upgrade 8s to 9s or 9s to 10s in large sets although I have done a fair amount of that. Also prewar baseball sets and 1935 National Chicle FB are very difficult to complete in PSA 8 or better so what seemed to make the most sense was to push forward a year or two. So I have pushed into 1969 and even the early 1970s in my Topps baseball, football and basketball sets. Since I have raw sets in all of these what seemed to make sense was to submit most of the raw set that I thought would "8" and fill in the remainder. I tried this with 1969 but found that nice set I assembled in nrmt-mt 15-20 years ago had about 30% of the cards off center...and PSA did not think all the cards I thought were 8s were really 8s. Thus I have to card by card buy 300 cards in psa 8 to finish the set. While that may be okay with 1 set it is too much to do with multiple sets.

So when the top card dealer in the universe in my opinion--Steve Novella--came to me with a 1969 Topps set that was 60 PSA 9s and 203 PSA 8s I took it in a heartbeat. What a beautiful set this is. The vibrant colors are beautiful, it has Brian Piccolo's RC and features cards of Gale Sayers, Dick Butkus, Joe Namath, Larry Csonka, Johnny Unitas and Bart Starr. It has no super difficult cards in 8 or better with trhe Donny anderson pop 28 being the lowest pop.

At an estmated 8.20 set rating the set ranks 9th behind football card collecting legend FabFrank and mega-fb dealer Mint State. The top set is 9.11. I will let the set rest at this level.

This set represents my 95th set completed in PSA 8 or better and my 25th football set. The goal remains 100 vintage or semi-vintage sets in PSA 8 or better. I appreciate the help of all collectors and dealers in helping me achieve my goals.

Completed Sets in PSA 8 or better are as follows:

BASEBALL(39):

1936 S&S
1941 Play Ball
1948 Bowman
1951 Bowman
1951 Topps Red Back
1952 Bowman
1954 Bowman
1954 Red Heart
1954 Topps
1955 Bowman
1956 Topps
1957 Topps
1958 Topps
1959 Fleer
1959 Topps
1960 Fleer
1960 Topps
1961 Golden Press
1961 Nu Card Scoops
1961 Topps
1961-62 Fleer
1962 Topps
1963 Fleer
1963 Topps
1964 Topps
1964 Topps Giants
1965 Topps
1966 Topps
1967 Topps
1967 Topps Red Sox Stickers
1967 Topps Pirates Stickers
1968 Topps
1968 Topps Game
1969 Topps Super
1970 Kelloggs
1970 Milton Bradley
1970 Rold Gold
1970 Topps Super
1974 Deckle Edge

FOOTBALL(25):

1950 Bowman
1951 Bowman
1953 Bowman
1954 Bowman
1955 Bowman
1955 Topps All-America
1956 Topps
1958 Topps
1959 Topps
1960 Mayrose franks
1960 Topps
1961 Fleer
1961 Nu Card
1961 Topps
1962 Fleer
1962 Kahn's Weiners
1963 Fleer
1963 Stancraft Playing Cards
1964 Philadelphia
1965 Philadelphia
1967 Topps
1968 Topps
1968 Topps 4-in-1
1969 Topps
1976 Wonder Bread

BASKETBALL(8)

1948 Bowman
1957 Topps
1961 Fleer
1969-70 Topps
1970-71 Topps
1971-72 Topps
1972 Icee Bear
1976-77 Topps

HOCKEY(3):

1962-63 Parkhurst
1962-63 Topps
1963-64 Parkhurst

MULTI-SPORT(2):

1933 Goudey Sport kings
1954 Sport Oddities

NON-SPORT(18):

1935 C&T Bridgewater
1936 Gallaher Film Episodes
1938 Ogden's Actors Natural and Character Studies
1939 Gallaher My Favourite Part
1945 Mutoscope Artists Pin-Ups
1952 Dixie Cup Nelson's Ice Cream
1955 Barbers Tea Cinema & TV Stars
1955 Movie Stars of MGM
1956 Jibco Tea Screen Stars, Second Edition
1956 U.S. Presidents
1957 C.W.S. Western Stars
1958 TV Westerns
1960 Fleer Spins & Needles
1962 ABC Colorstars
1962 Barratt & Co Warriors Through the Ages
1962 Topps Civil War News
1966 Leaf Good Guys and Bad Guys
1967 Who Am I?

calaban7

Two in one night Jim. Its hard to keep up.

This is A SET. Wow is all that comes to mind.

I hope you have something nice saved up for the finish line. It really doesn't matter as the 100 sets is the real FEAT.

As has been said many times , WAY TO GO JIM----- Sonny

Dboneesq

FANTASTIC JIM!

5 to go!!!!!!

Good Luck.

Edited to add: I am putting together a raw set. I need the following cards:

51 - Sayers
120 - Csonka
132b - Checklist with NO border
139 - Butkus
163 - Otto

Please PM me if you have them and include your price. Thank you.

Davalillo

Sonny,

Thank you--it is a beautiful set....but I have nothing saved up currently --I will report them as I complete them.

Doug,

Thanks--I don't have extras though as I am selling my partially graded and raw set as a set.

Jim

mikeschmidt

congrats Jim!

Davalillo

Thank you Marc--I answered your question of the other thread.

Jim

kidzfund

God job. I know you were only missing a couple of cards - will you be selling the set you started, or keep the duplicates?

Joe

Davalillo

Joe,

I have a complete set. I had sent in the top 12 cards to be graded and nhave 9 psa 8s and 3 psa 7s. The rest are raw and I imagine would come back about the same.

I would sell that set as it is.

Jim

Wabittwax

Congrats Jim. So I'm curious, what will be your next goal when you reach 100 sets? Will you go to 200 sets or upgrade the sets you have done or focus on a different collection?

Davalillo

Hi Steve,

200 is out of the question. I doubt that I will set any numerical goals.

I don't think I will focus too much on upgrading 8s to 9s or 9s to 10s unless its a smaller set and I could perhaps make it a 9 or better set or an all 10 set.

What I intend to do is keep doing what I have been doing. I probably have over 100 sets in progress and I am working on most at any given point in time so Ideally I would like to finish many of these. I would also selectively buy complete sets although not too many exist that I have not at least already started.

For those of you who don't know Steve--he is a great ebay dealer. I would recomment him wholeheartedly.

Jim

Nuyauwka

Jim,
I may have a graded set you may be interested in , drop me an PM or send me an email at Nuyauwka@aol.com, we have done business quite a few times in the past.

Howard