With prices rising so quickly on everything, I have really upped my bargain hunting game, and the result is these eight high-grade 1961 Topps O/C high numbers. Pretty sweet! I negotiated a deal for all of them (not off ebay) and am really happy about it.
First off,
#523 Joe Gibbon is a really tough to find high number in higher grade. They are always snapped up quickly. If you search past ebay auctions (I exclude all of the sc*mbag card doctors), there is only one card that sold recently, and it's posted below. That straight 7 (which is crazily O/C) sold for almost 4 times as much as what I paid for this one, and I'll take mine over that one any day of the week. It is just pushed a tad bit to the top. And take a gander at
#537 Bobby Locke and
#557 Jose Valdivielso, each just a mere hair off center top to bottom. A pair of sharp-ass 9 OC's!! The PSA 8 OC
#547 Leon Wagner also has similar centering...
These four (
#528 Pedro Ramos,
#532 Bob Hale,
#546 Marty Kutyna and
#551 George Altman) are a bit tougher to look at for many collectors, as they suffer the indignity of side to side centering anomalies, but I got them at a real nice price and they have sharp corners...
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