Vintage Oddball or Rare/Scarce?

[Exhibitman]

I dunno if this fits your era but there are a whole slew of oddball sets from the 1960s-1970s that are challenging and fun. Some can run a few bucks but nothing compared to earlier cards. Some examples

1960 and 1961 Nu Card. People are starting to realize that this set has career-contemporary cards of Aaron, Mays, Musial, Williams (1960), McCovey RC, and some others I don't recall. Slabbed can cost you but nice raw cards are still a deal.




1968 Atlantic Oil. Forty cards mostly HOFers. The game ticket packaging makes condition an issue but if you don't insist on high grade there are plenty of career-contemporary HOFers for reasonable prices.



1961-63 Post and Jello cards are very reasonable.

[ValKehl]

1961 7-11 set. The cards are so ugly that hardly anyone collects them. I have only this one card from this set, because Runnels was my favorite player when I was a kid.

[Zach Wheat]

Val,

The 7-11 card looks like it was typed on a typewriter!

[steve B]

The 1969 MLB sports collectors "stamp" set has always been affordable.

[philliesfan]

My choice would be to go after the 1964 Topps Stand Up set or the 1971 Greatest Moments.

[mrmopar]

Sometimes just patience and a little luck. Bargains for almost anything older is a ship that has mostly set sail, but you can find some deals if you are looking in the right place and at the right time. I was fortunate to dabble in some of the oddball sets at a decent time. My purchases were almost always Dodger related, so good in that regard. Bad in that I passed on adding other players or issues if there wasn't a Dodger or former/future Dodger. I sometimes wish I had focused even more on it when I did, but without an endless stream of money, I was always missing out on something. Heck, I will go through my vintage Topps and Bowman stuff and often realize with some level of shock that I am grossly underrepresented in certain sets, besides the Dodgers.

A lot of the real obscure stuff has fewer people fighting over it, but those people are not messing around and if they still need it, forget about it.

[Clutch-Hitter]

Gorgeous!

[Mbjerry]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

1961 7-11 set. The cards are so ugly that hardly anyone collects them. I have only this one card from this set, because Runnels was my favorite player when I was a kid.

Man those are ugly. Lol


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[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

1961 7-11 set. The cards are so ugly that hardly anyone collects them. I have only this one card from this set, because Runnels was my favorite player when I was a kid.

I once owned an antique convertible that a friend of mine who was a collector described as "rare and undesirable."

[tod41]

1972 Pro Star Promotions.

[Mbjerry]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I dunno if this fits your era but there are a whole slew of oddball sets from the 1960s-1970s that are challenging and fun. Some can run a few bucks but nothing compared to earlier cards. Some examples

1960 and 1961 Nu Card. People are starting to realize that this set has career-contemporary cards of Aaron, Mays, Musial, Williams (1960), McCovey RC, and some others I don't recall. Slabbed can cost you but nice raw cards are still a deal.




1968 Atlantic Oil. Forty cards mostly HOFers. The game ticket packaging makes condition an issue but if you don't insist on high grade there are plenty of career-contemporary HOFers for reasonable prices.



1961-63 Post and Jello cards are very reasonable.

These are some cool cards! I love those Nu Cards. Haven’t seen those before. Thank you!


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[Mbjerry]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I dunno if this fits your era but there are a whole slew of oddball sets from the 1960s-1970s that are challenging and fun. Some can run a few bucks but nothing compared to earlier cards. Some examples

1960 and 1961 Nu Card. People are starting to realize that this set has career-contemporary cards of Aaron, Mays, Musial, Williams (1960), McCovey RC, and some others I don't recall. Slabbed can cost you but nice raw cards are still a deal.




1968 Atlantic Oil. Forty cards mostly HOFers. The game ticket packaging makes condition an issue but if you don't insist on high grade there are plenty of career-contemporary HOFers for reasonable prices.



1961-63 Post and Jello cards are very reasonable.

Picked this one up in the Net54 marketplace yesterday. Thanks for the suggestion.




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[Exhibitman]

Also consider team issues, McCarthy postcards, and picture packs. They are kind of the wild west--little cataloguing, lots of BS--but present some great early cards of postwar players, sometimes for a pittance compared to other career-issued sets.

1962-65 Jays Publishing:



1966 McCarthy PC (happens to be signed):



Boston TI's: