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Just tripled the size of my 1952 Topps collection

BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I've been collecting cards on and off for 4 decades. Prior to yesterday, the only 1952 Topps card I had was a beater Duke Snider (still one of the favorite cards in my collection as I got it a show in the late '70's for a dollar). Bought these two on eBay and they just arrived.

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Daniel

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  • BPorter26BPorter26 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice eye appeal on those cards. Those 52's POP. Congrats on adding those to your collection.
    "EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY IT SAYS IT RIGHT THERE ON THE WALL" - JACKIE MOON
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭
    nice

    better watch out those 52's are addictive
    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

  • Foo3112Foo3112 Posts: 1,961
    So are you going for the rest of the set. Better start playing the lotto Daniel. lol

    Congrats on your 2 new additions to your PC.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Love that set! Cards present VERY well for the grade. Welcome to the club.
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭
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  • BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for the comments, guys. I do have some PSA 5's (other years) that don't look nearly as nice as these. I'm a big fan of lower grade cards because you can get bargains. Picked up both of these for $77 plus shipping.
    Daniel
  • calaban7calaban7 Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Love that set! Cards present VERY well for the grade. Welcome to the club. >>



    Exactly what Doug said !!!!image

    Very nice pickup----- Sonny
    " In a time of universal deceit , telling the truth is a revolutionary act " --- George Orwell
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    You won those from me Daniel. I had a BUNCH of 1952 Topps that I recently submitted for grading. I thought they looked really nice for the grades, some of them as much as two grades undergraded! If I thought they were really undergraded, I would describe them in the auction as undergraded, and make mention of the really nice eye appeal. Then I would let my scans do the talking. On those cards, a well scanned card would do more pricewise than the grade on the label. Anyway, glad you liked the cards!
  • bishopbishop Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭
    There is a fairly recent thread here somewhere where the folks on the board "built" this set via everyone posting each card in order
    Topps Baseball-1948, 1951 to 2017
    Bowman Baseball -1948-1955
    Fleer Baseball-1923, 1959-2007

    Al
  • BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bobby - Well it's a small collectors universe! Thanks for the speedy and well protected shipping. The cards will have a permanent home in the Baltimore area.
    Daniel
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    nice cards, having been born in 1952 I've always flirted with the idea to do the set but unfortunately the $$$ will never be there....even in beater condition.....

    al.
  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
    Great looking cards!

    Welcome to the '52 Club!
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
    WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    buy the 52's slow and steady...a lifetime project! Nice cards
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>nice cards, having been born in 1952 I've always flirted with the idea to do the set but unfortunately the $$$ will never be there....even in beater condition..... al. >>


    Love it when I see someone older than me (1958) on the boards! LOL
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • jrbolesjrboles Posts: 566 ✭✭
    I was about 340 cards into the 1952 set with grades all over the place. 5 PSA 8s, maybe 40 PSA 7s, and the rest 6 and 5 with the Campanella, Reese, Mays-types between 2 and 4.

    I have since humbled myself with the set. High grade are nice, but you can make a really nice set with Grade PSA 5/SGC 60 and below. Your 2 HOFers for under $80 are a fine example. My favorite low grade (slight wax build up on the back that Porterhouse missed) is below.

    Good luck with the set. I am focused on 1971 Topps at this point but step back in every now and again. Will watch for your competing bids in 2014.

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