What is your favorite set of the 50's?

[jefferyepayne]

A great question! I love all of the Bowman sets from the '50s and a few of the Topps ones. I'll throw in some votes for:

1950 Bowman. Love the color on these cards and the smaller size.



1955 Topps All-American - Iconic tribute set with incredible star power that goes all the way back to the beginning of American Football.



My two favorite odd ball sets from this era, though, were mentioned above.

1950 Bread for Health - the only football bread label set produced.



1959 Bazooka - incredibly hard set of 18 cards that copies the baseball design from the same year



jeff

[Exhibitman]

1956 Topps. I love the design of the cards.

[th38larg]

1955 Topps All-American! That's my personal favorite!

[albrshbr]

Another vote for the 55 Topps All-American

[mmier118]

Thanks for the input guys, I agree with all of you and for some strange reason decided to start on the 1952 bowman large set. If anyone has doubles they want to sell please let me know. Looking to do the commons in raw vg to ex condition and the hall of famers probably in psa 5 or better although a nice looking psa 4 can do. The sp's I'll probably just take what I can get. Going to throw consistency out the window. Figure it will be a nice multi year project for me.

[Exhibitman]

One of the fun things about the 56's is that the backgrounds tend to show print flaws, so if you are not a condition bug (and I'm not), you can look for clean cards that aren't necessarily sharp cornered and piece together a really appealing group for peanuts:

[Vintagevault13]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

One of the fun things about the 56's is that the backgrounds tend to show print flaws, so if you are not a condition bug (and I'm not), you can look for clean cards that aren't necessarily sharp cornered and piece together a really appealing group for peanuts:

I agree. Love the 56 set. I had over 50% of the set and decided to sell it about a year ago. Still kicking myself for that decision. I may start it again soon.


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[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by mmier118

Thanks for the input guys, I agree with all of you and for some strange reason decided to start on the 1952 bowman large set. If anyone has doubles they want to sell please let me know. Looking to do the commons in raw vg to ex condition and the hall of famers probably in psa 5 or better although a nice looking psa 4 can do. The sp's I'll probably just take what I can get. Going to throw consistency out the window. Figure it will be a nice multi year project for me.

That's a beautiful set and good luck pulling it together. Tracking the SP's down for a reasonable price will be the fun part.

jeff

[HRBAKER]

1959 Bazooka followed closely by 1957 Topps.