I remember seeing 2 -8 foot tables (at an Anaheim show in '75 or '76) stacked with complete sets of the '64 Giants sets. The asking price was 60 cents a set on Saturday, and the price was lowered on Sunday to 50 cents a set...... Sometime in the 80's or 90's I went to dinner with Will Davis and somehow the conversation drifted to 'finds' in general . Will started talking about the '64 Giants which he brought into the hobby. The find traces back to Southern California around 1969 / 1970. Will bought around 8 million 1964 Topps Giants, in cases for a total of $100. Prior to that purchase, the '64 Giants were not relatively common..... He even remembered the names of the two kids (at the time) that were selling the sets for him at the show that I was at... Throughout the mid-late 70's the hoard was significantly broken down, and groups of 5000-10000 still turn up in the hands of longtime collectors every year or so.
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