Lot # 363: 1957 Topps Shoebox Collection (111)

Category: 1949-Present

Starting Bid: $100.00

Bids: 7 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Summer, 2013 Auction",
which ran from 7/31/2013 3:31 PM to
8/25/2013 7:55 AM



The "Full Count Find" is a multi-generational original owner collection passed through the same family from the turn of the century. A young collector began acquiring tobacco and caramel cards in the early 1900s and fell in love with the hobby accumulating more than 100 Cracker Jacks and roughly the same number of T206s along with many other cards. He (thankfully) held onto them into his adulthood eventually passing them along to his son a young baseball fan in the late 1950s. That young boy also fell in love with the hobby beginning a collection of a variety of baseball cards (mostly Topps) during his childhood. He took good care of his cards loved them but didn"t abuse them and hung onto the entire collection before passing them along once again. The result of the entire collection appears in this auction a large group of prewar cards and a large group of 1950s and 60s cards highlighted by some beautiful 1957s.This marks one such group an assortment of 111 cards including many duplicates from the Full Count Find collection of 1957 Topps. The collection includes just five cards from the second series and eight from the third the majority coming from the first. For the most part the cards average in the EX range without respect to centering although many exhibit the kinds of centering issues that are well-known among Topps cards of the era (and of almost any era in their pre-1990s history actually). The group includes a number of stars and Hall of Famers including #108 Byrne #117 Adcock (2) #122 Boyer #165 Kluszewski #203 Wilhelm (2 - HOF) #210 Campanella (2 - HOF) #228 Burgess (3) #252 Erskine (2) and #262 Thomson. This collection has many duplicates; of the 111 cards there are 60 different with some cards repeated as many as five times. Still this is a strong grouping of cards from one of Topps" best-loved issues from a fresh collection containing multiple stars of the period. 111 cards total.

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