Lot # 165: 1951 Topps Baseball Red & Blue Back Complete Sets

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Item was in Auction "May 2016 Auction",
which ran from 5/9/2016 12:00 PM to
5/19/2016 11:30 PM



Detailed description on website.

Early pair of 1951 Topps Baseball Red and Blue Back complete sets that paved the way for mainstream Topps issues. Highlights include:

 

1951 Topps Blue Backs set: (52/52, average VG, varying degrees of corner staining) with #1 Yost (VG), #3 Ashburn (GD), #6 Schoendienst (VG), #9 Sain (VG), #10 Page (VG), #20 Branca (EX-MT), #30 Slaughter (VG-EX), #37 Doerr (VG-EX), #39 Lopat (VG), #45 Pierce (EX), #50 Mize (VG), #52 Chapman (VG);

 

1951 Topps Red Backs set: (52/52, average EX, four dupes, plus NM wrapper) with #1 Berra (VG), (2) #5 Rizzuto (one EX-MT, one FR, surface paper loss), #6 Reynolds (EX), #8 Wynn (EX-MT), #15 Kiner (VG), #20 D. DiMaggio (EX), #22 Feller (VG-EX), #24 Bauer (EX), #30 Spahn (NM), #31 Hodges (EX-MT), (3) #36 Zernial ((2) Philadelphia, one NM, one FR, surface paper loss, Philadelphia, White Sox grades EX), #38 Snider (VG), #39 Kluszewski (EX-MT), #50 Irvin RC (VG), (3) #52 Holmes ((2) Hartford grades GD, one Boston grades GD)

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