Set collectors - flaws you are ok with

[Rickyy]

All my Topps sets from 1970 to 1979 that I have are loose. My only pet peeve is diamond cuts or those cards that are tilted.

I think I bought about 5 1976 George Brett and at least four 1972 Nolan Ryan, because after I looked at it more carefully at home after I bought them it had those tilts. haha.

I don't mind top to bottom and side to side off center if they are no more than 70/30 too much on my loose cards.

I had same issue while completing my 1973 Topps Football set too. Too many weird cuts and tilts.

Ricky Y

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by Rickyy

I had same issue while completing my 1973 Topps Football set too. Too many weird cuts and tilts.

Ricky Y

I've almost finished that set (18 cards to go) and I swear that Topps farmed the cutting of those sheets out to some random 3rd grade art class.

[raulus]

Once upon a time, I feel like I had some high standards and drew a firm line on what I would and wouldn't accept.

Then I found that sometimes you have to take whatever you can get, particularly when it comes to issues with lots of condition problems and relatively few that have survived. While I still tend to tightly clutch my condition pearls overall, when it comes to issues like complete Jello boxes, complete Bazooka boxes, or Venezuelan issues, among others, I've learned to be a lot less picky, especially if there's only 1 or 2 that have surfaced.

Here's a great example.

[Zach Wheat]

With some of the '60's and & '70's cards more panels or cards were cut from packaging. For 1971 Milk Duds, I prefer complete boxes. However for most of the other food issues i.e. the Jello issues, I am ok with just panels.