March Pickups

[vintage954]

Originally Posted by darkhorse9

I will. I have the 1951 Red Back set and the first series of 1953 Topps done. I just wanted to go different and work on the 1940's where the sets are much smaller.

Darkhorse...how long did those sets take you to complete? I myself am a set builder and I feel like its been forever. I only do EX or better. What about you?

[darkhorse9]

Originally Posted by vintage954

Darkhorse...how long did those sets take you to complete? I myself am a set builder and I feel like its been forever. I only do EX or better. What about you?

It probably took me about 15 years total. I had the recent stuff and then decided to do the 1969 set (my childhood favorite) After that I decided to fill the gap between 1969 and the current stash.

When that was done I started working backwards. My original goal was to just do back to 1962 (my birth year). I also had a huge start on 1954 so I finished that.

Then, of course, I had to fill the gap between 1954 and 1962. That's how I got where I am today.

I'm EX or better on everything from 1956 to today. I went VG/EX on the 1954 and 1955 Bowman set. I'm working on the 1955 Topps set as well (still 9 cards away) but I'm a little looser on the grade there since it's the second set from that year.

For the 1940's I've opened up my grades to G/VG just to give the wallet a break. I can always upgrade later. My goal is to have a set from every year. That's not possible with the 1940's so I'm doing the best I can

1940 Play Ball
1941 Play Ball (1/2 done)
1943 MP&Co (done)
1944-1946 represented by Salutation Exhibits (12 cards away minus 1939 SP)
1947 Bond Bread
1948 Bowman
1949 Bowman.

Of course once that's done I'll have to fill the gap between 1949 and 1954.soooooo.

[vintage954]

There is a seller on eBay that was selling a ton of play balls that looked really nice. Seller by the name of battlefield056 or something. His feedback was kinda iffy so I didn't buy. Has anyone dealt with this seller?

[AMBST95]

[bcbgcbrcb]

Beauty, Adam.

[esiason14]

1945 M114 Baseball Magazine Premium

[Bestdj777]

Had some luck in Leon's auction last night.

The first one is one of my favorite images of Mantle. I think it is the same picture used for the 51 Wheaties? The wrinkles and everything else are identical, only this is missing the pinstripes.

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by vintage954

There is a seller on eBay that was selling a ton of play balls that looked really nice. Seller by the name of battlefield056 or something. His feedback was kinda iffy so I didn't buy. Has anyone dealt with this seller?

They buy graded cards and crack them out and create terrific scans and use words like '' breathtaking'' ...it seems to work for them . They bought two PSA 6's from me and four days later my cards were up for auction but not slabbed anymore and they looked quite a bit brighter and sharper than when they were in the ''6'' holders. In fact they looked breathtaking .