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800+ sets registered- How many do you have?
RayBShotz
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Is this incredible or what? 800+ sets registered now!! Can you say - Infectious ?!!! I started my participation on the set registry with just the 1969 Topps set (my lifelong passion) way back in the days when 69 Topps was the only post 50's set listed there. I thought it was an idea whose day was coming. An interactive, public forum for sharing your accomplishments and love for the hobby with others. This particular board has only accelerated my enthusiasm.
I will profess to being locked in to the long term idea of building sets and enjoying this comradery. I have a pretty nice set run from 1977 thru 1981 Topps and have begun to dabble on the registry on these sets also. Officially I find myself registered for 7 sets and part ownership in an 8th; thats right a shared set with another collector! Its just good fun. I stay within my budget and plod away picking up odds and ends.
I wonder about you others out there with multiple sets. Do you have a main focus? Do you treat them with even handed attention? How many are you participating in on the registry? There's got to be more of us out there to have exploded the number to 800+, most of those being registered in the last 12 months.
I see 1000 sets very soon and 5000 in just a few years. THIS IS PERHAPS THE SINGLE BEST THING TO HAPPEN IN OUR HOBBY ! Thank you PSA (Shameless plug!). I am sure I speak for many of us here.
RayB69Topps
I will profess to being locked in to the long term idea of building sets and enjoying this comradery. I have a pretty nice set run from 1977 thru 1981 Topps and have begun to dabble on the registry on these sets also. Officially I find myself registered for 7 sets and part ownership in an 8th; thats right a shared set with another collector! Its just good fun. I stay within my budget and plod away picking up odds and ends.
I wonder about you others out there with multiple sets. Do you have a main focus? Do you treat them with even handed attention? How many are you participating in on the registry? There's got to be more of us out there to have exploded the number to 800+, most of those being registered in the last 12 months.
I see 1000 sets very soon and 5000 in just a few years. THIS IS PERHAPS THE SINGLE BEST THING TO HAPPEN IN OUR HOBBY ! Thank you PSA (Shameless plug!). I am sure I speak for many of us here.
RayB69Topps
Never met a Vintage card I didn't like!
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RayB69Topps
Nice Post...Heart warming as well.
Now to answer your questions.
I currently have 13 sets listed on the registry.
Of course my main focus is my 1974 Topps Baseball Set.
Do you treat them with even handed attention?
NO.
My sets listed in order of Highest attention to Lowest.
1974 Topps Baseball
1976-77 Topps Basketball (set #1)
1972 Topps Baseball
1972 Topps Football
1970 Topps Baseball
1974 Topps Traded Baseball
1971-72 Topps Basketball
1972-73 Topps Basketball
1973 Topps Baseball
1974-75 Topps Basketball
1976 Topps Baseball
HOF set (By-Product of my other sets)
1976-77 Topps Basketball (set #2) For Sale on eBay... Shameless Plug
Carlos
anyway, i agree that the growth of registry is amazing. i'm sure some of the 800+ sets are much like my pathetic baseball hof collection, but that's still an impressive number. the registry is indeed great for the hobby - and probably pretty good for psa, too.
Like Carlos, these are in order of priority. . .with rough percentages. . .
72T (PSA8)
75T (PSA8)
59T (PSA7)
79T (PSA8)
80T (PSA8)
82F (PSA9)
Mike
1969
1971
1970
1972
1973
1968
1975
1974
1976
1957
1956
All are complete except the 1956 and 1957. The problem is the prohibitive cost of grading out a set. My main focus is to locate PSA 8 upgrades for the raw cards that are less than NM/MT
Always looking for 53 Topps Baseball and "stuff"
This is definitely an obsession. I think that since I used to spend hours and hours pouring over the baseball stats as a kid, that watching the stats change on the registry has become just as much fun!
Baseball sets I'm working on are:
72 Topps
70 Topps
72 O-Pee-Chee
67 Topps
68 Topps
69 Topps
84 Donruss
71 Topps (not on registry yet)
73 Topps (not on registry yet)
74 Topps (not on regsitry yet)
Sets - 1970, 1971 and 1972
Always looking for 1972 O-PEE-CHEE Baseball in PSA 9 or 10!
lynnfrank@earthlink.net
outerbankyank on eBay!
Maybe a listed/registered/cataloged set idea with some shared grading might be fun and much more economical. This is not meant to be sarcastic ( which I am often ) but just a question as to what you and many other collectors think about a " listed" set which is not entirely PSA. Thanks.
RayB69Topps
I just sent PSA 126 1969's for grading. The majority will be 8's but I hope to get a handful of 9's. If they all go 8 or 9 that would put me at around 88% complete. Ron do you know that if you eliminate the Mantle from the White Letters we have almost 90% of all the 8's graded.
When I listed my 71T set, just a couple of months ago, there were 8 sets listed. As of today, there are 18. The growth and excitement of the registry is nothing short of phenominal.
Who can predict by the end of the year? 2000 sets might just be on the low side.
but am really only focusing on collecting ONE main set
for now, and of course it is the 64 Topps Giants Set.
Excellent post. The 1963 Topps set was my no. 1 priority, but I decided to sell it and focus on 1970's Topps sets. My new focus is:
1. 1971 Topps PSA 8
2. 1972 Topps PSA 8
3. 1975 Topps PSA 8
4. 1970 Topps PSA 8
5. 1974 Topps PSA 8
6. 1978 Topps PSA 9 (not yet on registry)
7. 1979 Topps PSA 9 (not yet on registry)
8. 1973 Topps PSA 8
9. 1976 Topps PSA 8 (not yet on registry)
10. 1977 Topps PSA 8(not yet on registry)
Steve
"Matt & Brett's Collection"