1950's & 60's Topps Card Populations?

[egri]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

The Flood guy takes 2nd place to what the guy hoarding the 52 Bartirome has done to the price of that card

I was going to post about him. I saw a post (can't remember if it was here or SCN) a member looking to trade a 1952 Topps Willie Mays for a 52T Bartirome. I'm a bit fuzzy on what, if any, the difference in condition was, but that a Bartirome-for-Mays even up trade is being seriously discussed shows what he's done.

[mckinneyj]

Originally Posted by egri

I was going to post about him. I saw a post (can't remember if it was here or SCN) a member looking to trade a 1952 Topps Willie Mays for a 52T Bartirome. I'm a bit fuzzy on what, if any, the difference in condition was, but that a Bartirome-for-Mays even up trade is being seriously discussed shows what he's done.

Posted here in the "1950 to 1959 Baseball cards- B/S/T" forum a couple of days ago. Maybe a fair trade - even up - at today's prices; or, maybe Mays isn't enough to get a similar condition Bartirome. I still need a Bartirome for my set and missed that boat several years ago when they were still priced like the other common highs. It's much easier to find a Mays - do an ebay search for the Mays and Bartirome - you'll find lots of Mays and only a handful or so of Bartiromes available.

[GasHouseGang]

So here is the chart from Bob Lemke's Blog. Hope he doesn't mind that I copied it for you here. So these are wholesale sales totals. Someone can do the math to get a pretty good idea of numbers of cards available to the public.