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[ALR-bishop]

Do you in include the 54 “white band” Mays ?

[JustBradd]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Do you in include the 54 “white band” Mays ?

Not familiar with this, what is it?

[ALR-bishop]

The white band seems more that a brief recurring print defect since it can be found on so many of his 54 cards. It been discussed in other threads here and in pre war

[JustBradd]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

The white band seems more that a brief recurring print defect since it can be found on so many of his 54 cards. It been discussed in other threads here and in pre war

Thanks for sharing! I never noticed that my 54 Mays copy does in fact have the white band. I've been wanting to upgrade my PSA 1.5 so when I do so I'll look for one without the white band.

[carlsonjok]

I got back into collecting in late 2010 and started building sets at the start of 2011. The second set I completed that year was 1974 Topps. Not long after I decided to work on the master set, but card 599 (San Diego small print) always eluded me. To be perfectly candid, I rarely gave it much thought and when I did I found that the card was selling for $30 or more. It wasn't that I couldn't afford it, but I was just loath to spend that kind of coin on a common card*

Fast forward 14 years and a good friend just sent me that card, so now I have completed the master set.

* It seems rather quaint now that I would be so reluctant to spend $30 on a common since I am trying to build 1967 Topps and am mostly down to high numbers (I'm looking at you, Mike Shannon)

[ALR-bishop]

The older I get the harder it is for me to spot/see large v small print variants like that one . Congrats on 74 and good luck on 67

[Gorditadogg]

I am still working on my NMt-y 65T set, but I am getting farther away from finishing. I thought I was down to 40 cards, but then I made the mistake of looking through what I had, and I found about 60 cards that need to be upgraded. So now I have 100 to go. Here is my Mantle, and my latest pickups.

[danx]

Finally getting closer on completing my 72 Topps Set - 5 to go: Bench, Rose, Ryan and Bahnsen/Reed on the high numbers. Been a journey.

Was thinking of shifting back to focusing on 71 Topps, but may need a break from the high number insanity and will probably work on completing the 78 Topps, instead.

Rounding out the tails on a 70s set run - have had 73-77 done for a while.

[DHogan]

I only have 9 more common cards to finish a high grade 1971 baseball. I needed something to make me crazy. My favorite set is my 1967 baseball set. I remember the nuns in catholic school confiscating them from me in 3rd grade.

[ALR-bishop]

Dave---depending on which cards and how many they took it might make those nuns guilty of felony theft

[darkhorse9]

My problem is I always have too many sets going on at the same time. I really need to finally wrap up these odd groupings:

1936 Goudey - need 2 cards (Cuyler and Gomez)
1962 Topps Stamps - need 12
1955 Red Man - need 2 (Musial and Mays)
1963 Post baseball - need 13
1955 Double Header - 50% complete