1951/1952 Bowmans

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Posted By: David Poses

I think I posted this question a while back, but got little (or no) response.

A side project I've been working on is assembling (RAW) EX+ sets of 1950,51 and 52 Bowmans. I like the idea of seeing all the cards in binder pages and have found sheets that the 1950 set fit into perfectly. I have had zero luck finding pages that fit the 51/52s.

How do you store your cards from those series? At the moment, I have them in penny sheets/top loaders, but that takes all the fun out of seeing them in binder format.

Care to share how you store your cards? I'd love any tips/suggestions/ideas or even pictures of your stuff.
Thanks
d

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Posted By: David McDonald

David: Here are my '50 and '51 Bowman sets. Don't have the '52 set. I bought the 1950 set intact from one of the auction houses several years ago. Whoever put this notebook together did a painstaking job of mounting each sleeve and made a nice title page with an old wrapper. Even the letters were cut from a stencil. Only drawback to this arrangement is that one cannot see the back of a card without removing it, and since there is no name on the front it is not immediately apparent who the ballplayer is. I know that there are sheets with pockets that will specifically fit 1950 Bowmans. I have the football set for that year, too, in the correct pockets. (I was born in 1950 so I have a thing for cards from that year). However, no way am I going to undo the beautiful book the previous owner created.
The 1951 set is in an MJ Roop binder. Each card is in a penny sleeve in a standard nine-pocket Ultra-Pro sheet. The cards don't float around much, if at all, and it presents well enough to suit me.













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Posted By: JimCrandell

Put the 1951 and 1952 Bowmans into the same holders that you would as if you were sending them to PSA and slide these into the black Vario(not sure of this name) sheets--four to a pg.

Works perfectly in a binder.

Jim