Offered is a 718-card near set of 1970 Topps baseball cards including four PSA-Graded cards. The set is missing only 189 Munson and 712 Ryan for completion (see next two lots). Highlights include: #'s 1 World Champions (EX/MT), 10 Yastrzemski (NM), 140 Jackson (PSA NM 7), 197 Ryan NLCS (EX/MT), 210 Marichal (NM), 220 Carlton (EX/MT), 230 B. Robinson (EX/MT), 240 Jenkins (NM/MT), 250 McCovey (EX/MT), 290 Carew (EX), 300 Seaver (EX), 315 Aparicio (NM/MT), 330 Brock (EX+), 350 Clemente (PSA EX-MT 6), 462 Aaron AS (EX+), 464 Bench AS (EX), 500 Aaron (EX/MT), 502 Fingers (EX/MT), 530 Gibson (EX/MT), 537 Morgan (EX/MT), 580 Rose (PSA NM 7), 600 Mays (PSA NM 7[OC]), 622 Sutton (EX/MT), 630 Banks (NM), 640 Kaline (EX/MT), 660 Bench (EX/MT), 700 Robinson (EX). Grades mostly EX to EX/MT including some nicer and some lesser.
Assembled from Vending!
This lot is part of a collection that our consignor put together in the late-1970s and early 1980s. When he was a teenager, he discovered his first baseball card shop in Chicago. As luck would have it, the owners that opened the shop had established part of their initial inventory with the purchase of a huge cache of undisturbed Topps vending that stretched back to the 1950s. For several years, our consignor would spend hours each week assembling his sets out of this vending find. The result is one of the freshest looking group of baseball, football, hockey and basketball sets we have ever seen. While the cards are not technically perfect in every way, the surface quality, front and back, is remarkable, and the cards are generally higher grade with a super-fresh quality and tremendous eye-appeal. We hope you enjoy the opportunity to acquire items from this special collection.