I am about to start these 2 sets (54&58), how were they to build?

I also recently finished my 57 topps set, finally thanks to some help from the board.

Can’t speak to ‘58, but I love my ‘54. I’ve made it hard on myself by sticking to PSA 7 (though a few 6’s and 6.5’s as well as a few 7.5’s and 8’s). I will likely settle for PSA 5 Aaron, Kaline and Banks and 6’s for Mays and the two Williams. So awesome to look at them laid out, though and they look amazing in the slabs (so uniform looking). Enjoy and good luck.


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I need just seven more cards to complete my 1952-53-54-55 Red Man Tobacco sets. Three of the needed cards are some "guy" named Mays...

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I am down to just 11 ‘54’s after picking up these three...

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Harmon seems pretty tough to track down...


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And now just 10...

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Nice collections everyone. I'm up to about 350 different cards for a 1962 Topps set. But I picked up my first 57s this week (Robinson RC, Clemente and Kluszewski). I've loved that set since I was a kid. I'm thinking about dropping my 62 set and pursuing that one instead. I absolutely love the 57s. Probably my favorite vintage set of all time.

With this one I am up to 77/80. Just need 14, 50, and of course 68!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...1df9bf570b.jpg

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Redman
 

Nice work, Larry. Do the tabs - or no tabs - have any significance for you? I always loved the '52 set because it reminded me of my father, who was a chewer and gave me some of my first cards when I was a tyke. I can recall sending in the tabs for a Braves baseball cap.

Not really Steve...

I just bought my first 1953 Bowman color card. So only a few left to go... :)
kevin

I am now down to one card to complete my 1952 Topps set. I bet that probably nobody would be able to guess what card it is.

It is a high number, but not one of the ones you might think.

Just picked up #387 Brock rookie, now down to 4 cards for my '62 master set.

beautiful Brock

congrats

Thank you Fred!

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Finished off my 1970 Topps Basketball set (Thanks eBay coupon folks!) and now down to two 62T baseball...Twins Team and Bob G. Miller.

need 2 1969 topps football to finish it. need #'s 55-80, have cards to trade or buy. let me know if you can help

Just got last card to finish my 52 Topps set and my run of base sets from 1951-2011.

Congrats! Which card was the final card?

Great accomplishment!

Also, like was already asked, what was that last card that you needed?

I assume, based on your post it wasn't Mick or Mathews?

Was it Campanella? :confused:

Edit: I change my guess to Bartirome :D

That is AWESOME!!! What was your last card?

Last Card
 

After 38 years of looking, I finally finished my 1963 Post Cereal Baseball set. I bought a lot of 1963 cards on ebay and #196 Frank Thomas was among them.

1971 Topps: 747/752; 99% complete (need 630 Clemente, 650 Allen, 664 Checklist, 688 Anderson, 709 Baker)
1972 Topps: 678/782; 87% complete

Plenty that I am working on, main one is 52 topps, need 311 Mantle, 312 Robinson, 332 Bartirome and 407 Mathews. Need some luck lol. Recently completed PSA9+ 1978, just keep watching values slide on my 9s.

Finished off a 1963 topps set. (Last card was #173 Bombers Best) Only been needing a couple of cards for a while just kept having the second best bids on ones I liked. I’m not putting this one down yet though. Going to keep upgrading. Probably will end up with close to a second set down the road. Already have around 400 cards of it.

Set Collectors - Report in your progress!
 

With the addition of Mr. Turley, down to 9 needed for my ‘54 Topps set...

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Great accomplishment!!!!!!

Congrats

I'm awaiting the arrival of Sandy Koufax (an upgrade of my card with a piece missing) and a Brooks Robinson RC (both PSA 6) to put me within 2 (#284 Zimmer and #286 Richardson) of completing my 1957 set. If anyone has either of those cards in decent shape to trade, for the love of God please check out my bucket. :D

I just purchased the last 4 cards to finish off the 1971 Topps high #s. Not as tough as the ‘72 highs, but pretty darn close. I have a few other ‘71s so that puts me a little over 15% complete. I build sets one series at a time so now on to series 5!

Nothing better than finding a well centered 1956 Clemente with amazing color... and a well placed crease at the bottom right. Great eye appeal, for a small fraction of the price.

With Bob G Miller in the house I'm now just a Twins Team card from finishing my 1962 set. It's been a grind.

My 1970 Topps Basketball set is now complete. Or will be when my last (Leroy Ellis) card arrives. It was returned to sender (unknown recipient/no forwarding address!?!?) for some odd reason...the eBay seller had the correct address (I've lived here for 35 years). The seller reached out to me and is resending and refused to let me help with the postage. I'll be glad to put that one to bed.

1 card to go on my 1957 Topps set...and it is the last card in the set...#407 Mantle/Berra

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Just finished 1978 Topps with these two adds. May still upgrade my Eddie Murray but happy to be done at the moment!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5c2a29ec77.jpg

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Thanks to a trade with member pwang100 I am down to needing 4 for to finish my 1955 Bowman set. I still need #'s 242(Banks), 291, 293, and 307.

I got this Frank Malzone.:)

I’m down to six cards for my ‘54 Topps set after grabbing these two...

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I still need both Williams, Mays, Aaron, Kaline and Banks...though I already have Banks and Kaline in lower grade SGC examples. Probably shooting for PSA 6 for all by Aaron...I’ll probably do the best centered PSA 5 for Aaron.


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Having received #2 Tom Seaver from the 1971 set today - marking the completion of the Kellogg's run - I am checking in on my set building progress.

The Bowman run seems stuck on the final 5 cards in the 1949 set. They include the Big 3 (Robinson, Paige, Snider) but also two other toughies: Preacher Roe and Dave Ferriss.

I have been making great progress on the pre-war front (low to mid-grade):
- 1933 Goudey need 13 (including Lajoie)
- 1934 Goudey need 12
- 1934-36 Diamond Stars need 11
- 1939 Play Ball need 2 (including Williams)
- 1940 Play Ball need 3 (including DiMaggio and Shoeless Joe)
- 1941 Play Ball is complete

I have completed almost every Robert Laughlin related set out there - still seeking the "Erorrs" set and the "Sports Slang" set. PM me if you have a line on either of those.

The hunt continues!

Finished off my '62 baseball and '70 basketball sets and swore I'd take a break from serious set chasing. But that didn't work out.

At the local hotel show last month I came across a nice 1961 starter lot in a binder for under 60 cents a card. Added a really cheap lot via eBay (nice condition for the price!) and find myself about 60% through with it already. A bit less than that for the higher cost star cards.

My other set builds have taken a back seat and are creeping along.

Finally finished off my 1967 Topps set with the addition of a beautiful Rocky Colavito high number. Now I will await the next ebay 15% coupon to try to knock off the last couple of 1957's I need.

I just added a couple more cards to my 1955 Bowman baseball set. I need 8 more cards to finish.
I need the following to complete the set: 68,179,238,242,246,270,278,& 310.
I also have several extras for trade or sell.

Finished off a lower grade ‘55 Topps set this week with a Koufax rookie (finally!).

On to chasing whatever is next...

Thought I had my 62 Topps baseball set completed then went back and realized I was missing 5 cards. Just doing a vg-ex set, some better and some worse.
#320 - Aaron - Kept buying raw at good deals so I sent to PSA and they kept coming back 5's so I would sell them
#318 - Switch hitter connects. Had one raw and not sure why I sold it
#470 - Kaline A.S.
#471 - Mantle A.S. - Have a PSA 6oc that I might use
#544- I have 10 of these ranging in grades PSA 2-8. Can't seem to keep one raw.

1986 Fleer Basketball PSA 8 Set
#57 - Jordan

1986 Fleer Basketball Sticker PSA 9 Set
#1 - Jabbar

1986 Fleer Basketball Sticker PSA 6 Set
#1 - Jabbar
#3 - Dantley
#4 - English
#5 - Erving

1986 Fleer Basketball Raw Set
#7 Barkley
#57 Jordan

1961 Topps Baseball Raw
Missing 134 cards right now with a lot of them being high numbers. Trying to do the set in NM and have some that I will need to upgrade. Will have to list the numbers missing sometime to see if anyone here can help out

1962 Jell-O
Attempting to do this set all in PSA. Most will be "authentic" but have a good amount of numerical grades at this point. Sitting on the registry with about 55% graded right now with more at PSA and several sitting here waiting to be sent in. Overall I'm at about 75% complete with 40-50 cards to go.

Down to 1 card for 1966 (EXMT range) set after purchasing "Choo Choo Coleman #561" in NRMT yesterday.


Only card needed is: Detroit Tigers (team card) #583


All upgrades are complete. Once the Tigers card is added the set will be 100% finished.

Are you just looking for one raw?

Yes sir, all cards go into a binder. I have popped cases on several PSA 6s to 8s and put them in the binder. Preferably the Tigers card would be at least EX+. I have not put anything below EX in this set.

Very nice! Love the binder!

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I spend the majority of my free time looking through my set binders. Never gets old.

I am about to get my 1953 and 1954 Topps sets out of their white storage boxes and set up in Archival Methods binders. I will leave the stars graded, but I have some graded commons to crack out. Can't wait to get the sets in the binder!

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I have considered getting some of the key cards which I would consider "exceedingly" expensive and keep them in graded status such as a PSA 7 or better Nolan Ryan, Seaver, Pete Rose when it comes around.

My current Ryan in my 1968 is likely EX which knocks the value down. If the cards are under $500 in value, I am comfortable with them in the binders.

I love the binder talk. All of my 1957-75 sets are in binders, and for countless years I've been trying to upgrade them by going to shows and hitting ebay, etc., knocking off a card here and there. I absolutely love the tactile feel of the cards and the wonderfully musty, nostalgic aroma of the old cardboard comes through whenever you leaf through a binder. But it's come to the point now where virtually everything I buy is graded. The main reasons for that are two or threefold:

First, when the time comes to sell my cards, having them in slabs will be quite a leg up for establishing perceived value and whatnot.

Two, if I'm looking for something on ebay, it is virtually guaranteed that ungraded HOF'er cards will have such inflated prices that it'll be more than prudent to spend a little more and get a really nice one that's already graded. That's what happened when I was finishing off my 1961 high numbers. $70 bucks for an ungraded All Star to put in the binder, or around $100 (and less during ebay coupon days) to grab one up in PSA 8? I enthusiastically went with the latter. (The same sort of thing happened with 1967 high number, Rocky Colavito.)

Lastly, I gotta be honest, when I see really nice ungraded HOF'ers from the 60's being sold by dealers who specialize in graded cards, I often wonder, "Why didn't he get this one graded? There must be something going on. Maybe it's trimmed and/or was rejected by PSA or something??" Granted, there are plenty of other reasons why a card hasn't been graded, but it never hurts to be careful.

I can't argue against your points about graded cards being safer, especially when buying online. The significant cards in my sets will almost always be graded. However, the rest of the set will be ungraded and in the binder. I am actually including the graded members of the set in the binder process now. I just have to use different pages for the graded key cards. It is a reasonable compromise. If I had to sell the set, the keys are graded.

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Cant disagree with any of the logic.

1951 Bowman
 

After a VERY long search, I finally picked up a 1951 Bowman Willie Mays, leaving just Mantle to finally put this beast to sleep once and for all.

1951 Bowman
 

After a VERY long search, I finally picked up a 1951 Bowman Willie Mays, leaving just Mantle to finally put this beast to sleep once and for all.

1910 Punch
 

This is probably a set that most have not heard of, but I have been working on it for more than a decade. 71% complete as of now.

Of the 49 card (known cards), I am missing:

Armando Cabanas
Alfredo Cabrera
Joe Casey
Claud Derrick
Chicho Conzalez
Gervasio Gonzalez
Bris Lord
Quico Magrinat
George Moriarty
George Mullin
Emilio Palomino
Eddie Plank
Carlos Roggers
Germany Schaefer

Any help in finding these would be much appreciated!

The good news is that I have most of the key cards, like Cobb, Pop Lloyd, Mendez, Bender, Bruce Petway, Eustaquio Pedroso, Luis Padron and Home Run Johnson. The only HOFer that I am missing is Plank.

1961 Topps
 

I made a big dent in my 1961 needs at this past Saturday's local hotel show. I'm now at 492 of 586. The 94 I lack however are mostly high numbers and some stars from the lower range. It'll be a challenge to find these in decent shape at prices that won't drain my retirement funds.

But if it was easy it wouldn't be as much fun or as rewarding.

My '71, '75 and '78 sets are at or near complete but have been on the back burner waiting to be bindered while I have tackled the '61.

Set Collectors - Report in your progress!
 

Down to needing only Aaron and Williams #1...I’ll be damned if this shouldn’t be more than a PSA 5.

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And not sure if I posted my Williams # 250...

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Slowly getting to the end of my 1955 Bowman baseball set. Six more and done.
68, 179, 238, 242, 270, 310.

Just need to add Hank Aaron...that will be a 2019 goal...

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Pending the safe delivery of #562 Russ Synder via the USPS, I have finished the 1966 Topps set in mostly VGEX. I personally found getting the high cards harder than the 67's and 62's.

And this card didn’t end up happening...ugh.


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Upgraded a few lately. Now looking for a Brissie and Boudreau in PSA8.

Need about 50 1964 Topps and 100 65 Topps to complete set.
Also slowly working on a 1964 Topps Stand Up set 50/77 .
Need to upgrade a couple 1969 Supers.
20/33 1954 Red Hearts
11/12 1964 Bazooka Panels- need Kaline panel
11/12 1965 Bazooka Panels- need Koufax panel

Any help.... Have cards to trade or buy.

Slowly working a few baseball sets:

T206 Southern League (Virginia League) - 8/12, 67%
1957 - 335/407, 82%
1964 Giants Auto'd - 50/60, 83%
1965 - 538/598, 90%
1972 (2nd set) - 762/787, 97%

Hoping to knock out the '57, '65, and '72 sets in 2019.

I needed only six cards to finish my 54 set and for Christmas my secret Santa got me two of the four commons I needed. Then my brother surprised me with a gift of two more commons that just happened to be the other two that I needed after my secret Santa sent me his two. So now I'm just down to the Aaron and Banks rookies. I'm sure I can get a Banks in my price range but the Aaron is out of my range so it'll be a while until I actually complete the set, but I'll be happy at 249 until then.

Set progress in 2018
 

Completed the Basic PSA player registry set of Allie Reynolds.

Down to 1 card in 1953 Topps - #244 Willie Mays.

Also down to 1 card in 1949 Bowman - #224 Satchel Paige.

After these two, will be looking for a new project. Need about 100 for 1963 topps. Maybe that's next.

Tony

down to 4 cards for 56 topps 5-williams-33 clemente-130 mays-135 mantle

just picked up a yankees team card, aaron and Koufax


still need 3 55 topps
50 robinson-194 mays-198 berra

Congratulations on some good progress! You building in graded or ungraded? My sets are always a mix.

Hallelujah!!!!!! My 1957 Topps set is finally complete after acquiring PSA 7's Bobby Richardson and Don Zimmer at nice discounts via the recent 15% off ebay coupons. This took a lifetime to accomplish, so I am feeling lucky and a bit psyched!!!

Robert the sets are raw but I have a couple graded in both, same with my 57, that I finished finally in 2017. these 3 sets are in decent shape so I think that's why its taking me so long to finish them.

jolly that 57 Richardson was a tough card wasn't it. it was 1 of the last cards I needed also for the set and I think I got it in SGC 7 grade.
congrats

Thanks, Fred. Yeah, it's one of those perfect storm sorta things for sellers. Not only a Yankees rookie card (of a player going down in history for grabbing McCovey's line drive to end the 1962 World Series) from an extremely popular set, but it happens to be in the tough middle/high-series. Oy vey. There are plenty of them on ebay, but the asking prices for ungraded ones are pretty crazy, so I made a decent offer on a PSA 7 and used the 15% off to make it a nice get in the end.

I know this should normally go in a different forum area... but I'm trying to avoid posting in areas that wouldn't be seen by the right people.

I recently took on a large consignment of cards mainly from the 50's and 60's. I have the ability to fill in gaps on sets from what I took in. The years are as follows:
Topps Baseball
1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1968, 1969

Topps 1958 Football

Please DM your lists of what you are trying to fill and I will respond first come first serve.

Thanks, Mike

What #s do you need for 1976?

What card #s do you need for Post?

Wow, my thread from way back is still alive. I dropped out of the card world for a bit there (classic car collecting kills card budgets...lol), but I AM BACK. Excited to be back as well. I sold all my sets 1967 and older (turned them into a completely restored 1963 Ford Falcon Sprint to add to that collection), and kept my 1968 to 1990 Topps sets. Currently working on 66 and 67 at the same time and just made some purchases to get me going (jumped right back into the deep end of the 60's pool..lol). So happy to be back, I missed it terribly. I can say though taking the break I did has really re-kindled my love of the hobby. Looking forward to joining back into the fray...right in time for spring training.

Thanks all!

John

I was wondering what happened to you. Glad you are back!

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Robert - in the spirit of you and I changing our minds on things every few weeks - wanted to let you know I'm reconsidering doing sets again. Bottom line, I think I need to find a way to be happy, to find the value in common cards. Because after this last month or so, if there is one thing I have learned - it's that I can't really afford myself or my hobby if I continue to only go down the road I have been. :confused:

Set Collections
 

1961 Post Cereal Baseball - Master Set Complete
1962 Post Cereal Baseball - Set Complete - 2 Cards for Master Set
1963 Post Cereal Baseball - Master Set Complete

1962 Post Cereal Baseball Canadian - 39 for Set
1962 Post Cereal Football US - 4 for Set
1962 Post Cereal Football Canadian - 9 for Set - 16 for Master Set
1963 Post Cereal Football Canadian Set Complete - 16 for Master Set

Welcome back to the set builder side, John! I have tried to escape but just can't do it. It's just too much fun!

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Thanks guys...

Got my first card in the mail today in probably 2 plus years...:) Replacing my 66 high cards...got this nice little beauty...

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Felt good to see an envelope in the PO box!