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Old 05-19-2014, 01:44 PM
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I would say go for it - depending on where you go to collect.

The red back set is no problem at all. You can find those at shows and on ebay at good prices. You can even find unopened packs at a low price. How cool for your son to open a 60-year old pack of cards.

The problem will be the blue backs. There just aren't any dealers out there who have them. They're an afterthought set so none of them bother to stock it. When they do the cards sell quickly.

If you dealing on ebay you can find them (mostly graded or beaters) but you just can't find them at shows.

Make life easy...collect the red back set and call it good.
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Old 05-19-2014, 02:22 PM
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Old 05-19-2014, 03:17 PM
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Just got a shipment of 23 high's from the 71 set from Mickey's Clubhouse.

Plans right now are to budget $50 per pay period until 71 set is done.
Then start the 51 set. I will have to finish the 71 first as my son is really into that set right now.

I have a feeling the 51 set will be one of our funnest to do. right now we only have one, Early Wynn. I see that Mickey does not have 51's on his web site
Might have to do that solely thru ebay.
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Old 05-19-2014, 05:36 PM
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The first set I ever started collecting way back in 1981 was the Red Back set and it's one of my favorites. You can find nice conditioned raw Red Backs with ease, the Blue Backs not so much. While the blues are available prices are often high and it's much harder to find them in nice condition. I believe there were two and possibly even three Red Back print runs vs a single blue back run. While some blues were found along with hoards of reds in the late 80's, there were many, many more red backs involved. Doubles packs can still be found, although they are going up in price.

There are two types of Red Backs, cream/tan stock and brilliant white stock. The latter is much more attractive as the cards printed on the better stock have stayed white and have killer gloss. The Zernial (Philly) and Holmes (Hartford) variations are on the white stock whiles Zernial (Chicago) and Holmes (Boston) are found on the cream version. The difference between the two card stocks is obvious once you see them side by side. Blue Backs only came on the white stock.

The Doubles packs were a 1952 reissue without candy and contained primarily but not exclusively red backs. These packs likely sold off some returns from the previous year.

Here is an interesting couple of Red Backs with Team card backs that I got last year:



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So is the Zernial and Holmes, are they variants, cause when we do sets, we do the "error" cards too. Are their 2 Zernial and Holmes?
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Yes there are 2 variations of Holmes ( Boston or Hartford) and Zernial (Philly or Chicago). No variations in Blue backs

Dave - those are great error cards

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