I am assembling a '56 Topps baseball set and prefer the Hall of Famers graded for no reason in particular. My set is shaping up to be a nice mid-grade set with very nice eye appeal and have purchased in lots many of the cards I needed. In these lots were several nicely graded commons that in which I paid at or near what an ungraded common would cost me. I am planning on leaving those in the cases as I feel that enhances the value of the set. I may be totally off the mark with that assumption but then again, I am hoping to never have to sell the set and hand it down to my son someday. Yes, this makes for a mish-mash of graded and ungraded and perhaps my thinking will change when the set is actually complete but for now, I am ok with the mixed bag of TOG cases and my semi rigids!
Good luck on your sales. I think that after I finish the '56 set I will move onto the 1060 Topps set. I have always like that one for some reason.
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