Offered is a 597-card near set of 1968 Topps baseball cards-missing only 177 Ryan for completion (see next lot). Highlights include: #'s 1 Clemente LL (PSA NM 7), 20 B. Robinson (PSA EX-MT 6), 45 Seaver (PSA EX 5), 50 Mays (PSA NM 7), 58 Mathews (NM-), 80 Carew (PSA EX 5), 85 Perry (EX/MT), 86 Stargell (PSA EX-MT 6), 100 Gibson (VG), 103 Sutton (NM), 110 Aaron (VG/EX), 150 Clemente (miscut, undersized), 205 Marichal (NM), 220 Killebrew (PSA EX-MT 6), 230 Rose (VG), 240 Kaline (NM-), 247 Bench (miscut, undersized), 250 Yastrzemski (EX+), 280 Mantle (miscut, undersized), 290 McCovey (EX/MT), 310 Aparicio (NM), 330 Maris (EX/MT), 355 Banks (PSA EX-MT 6), 361 Killebrew AS (EX/MT), 363 Carew AS (EX/MT), 372 Brock AS (EX/MT), 373 F. Robinson AS (NM-), 374 Clemente AS (PSA NM-MT 8), 408 Carlton (EX/MT), 480 Manager's Dream (PSA EX-MT 6), 490 Killebrew/Mays/Mantle (PSA EX-MT 6), 500 F. Robinson (EX+), 520 Brock (EX/MT), 528 Tigers (EX/MT), 530 Bird Belters (PSA EX-MT 6) and 575 Palmer (EX/MT). Grades average 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.