Building 1953 Bowman Color Full Set

[jingram058]

Make it 57. Got Cass Michaels and Enos Slaughter, both for $18. The Enos Slaughter card is worth talking about; it is in real nice shape and decently centered. Another of the famous out of focus photos and a sort of dark streak along the lower back, but not too bad otherwise. That's where I am going with this set...raw and flawed, up to a point, and able to be handled without worry.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Make it 57. Got Cass Michaels and Enos Slaughter, both for $18. The Enos Slaughter card is worth talking about; it is in real nice shape and decently centered. Another of the famous out of focus photos and a sort of dark streak along the lower back, but not too bad otherwise. That's where I am going with this set...raw and flawed, up to a point, and able to be handled without worry.

Raw and flawed are my favorite cards. The first 50s card I ever bought was a 1953 Color Bowman. Still have it and it is still my only card from the set.

[jingram058]

Just doing a casual search, it appears that the black and white set will be a more difficult affair altogether...fewer cards means fewer available, and higher priced. The color set, once you get past the sticker shock with Mantle, Reese, Berra, Ford, and a few others, the price really drops off. Well over 100 others can be had in vivid color for less than $10 each for decent raw cards. Black and whites are another animal altogether; even the commons are $25 up.

[jingram058]

Progress report - up to 74/160. As you can see, the high dollar cards are done. Some of the high numbers seem to be a bit pricey for commons, but I suppose that's due to scarcity.

[Tere1071]

I have the following cards for sale/trade: 6, 13, 22, 24, 28, 31, 35, 40, 42, 50, 53, 56, 63, 64, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 79, 82, 88, 91, 95, 103, 107, 110, 120, 122, 123, 127, 131, 132, 133, 137, 139, 141, 142, 147, 148, 150, 155, 159.

Sometime next week I'll have 129, 144 and 149 available.

If there's any of these you'd like to look at, please let me know and I'll send images to you.

Continued success in your adventure.

Phil aka Tere1071

[cardsagain74]

Phil you did great on that Feller. Always feels good to knock a main one off the list in that manner

[Tere1071]

Originally Posted by cardsagain74

Phil you did great on that Feller. Always feels good to knock a main one off the list in that manner

Thank you. I have one already, but the centering from left to right is 25/75; however the image and corners are sharp. Some cards display well with that type of centering, I don't think the Feller does, that's why I bought this one this evening. Here's the one I'm replacing.



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