1960 BELL BRAND DODGERS BASEBALL CARD SET w/ Sandy Koufax Psa

Description: 1960 Bell Brand Potato Chips Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Cards. This is a Complete Set 20/20 Card Set. The BIG feature is a SANDY KOUFAX Psa graded. Included is a Stan Williams Psa 4, A Norm Larker Psa 4, and A Walt Alston Psa 3. Psa 3 Graded cards include Chuck Essegian and Johnny Roseboro. Other Psa Cards are Clem Labine, Duke Snider, Carl Furillo, Johnny Klippstein, Don Demeter, Maury Wills and Joe Pignatano, and Jim Gilliam. The remaining cards are ungraded but are not creased, with no pin holes, no pen or pencil marks. Bell Brand baseball cards derived their name from the free card offered inside select Bell Brand potato chips and corn chips. Beginning in 1958 and ending in 1962, the plastic wrapped cards were loosely placed inside both 29-cent and 49-cent packages. Jumping on the popularity of the championship Dodger team, Bell Brand decided to reissue the cards with a fresh new look. They set out early in the 1960 season and took photographs of the players at the Vero Beach, FL, spring training facility. This gave the Bell Brand company an opportunity to offer the cards in their potato chip bags before it was too late in the season. The result was a 20-card set featuring popular Dodger players of the time with three of them being short prints. This new design was an obvious improvement that appealed to the fans. The cards were printed with a white border measuring approximately 2 1/2" by 3 1/2". The pictures were now in color as opposed to the 1958 black and white photos. With a little help from the star-studded lineup and a World Series title, Bell Brand cards became quite popular.As you can imagine, these cards are frequently seen with multiple stains. Heavy grease from the chips quickly soaked through the wrapper and onto the cardboard surface. It is a common occurrence to see cards that have sharp corners and perfect centering but that possess brown stains that lessen the appeal, especially when set against a white background. These problems certainly have an effect on the overall grading process. Today, even if a collector is lucky enough to have a card still sealed in the original clear wrapper, staining is still prevalent. This, coupled with the fact that there are centering issues and that many cards from this era were well played with and often discarded, makes it a very difficult venture to put together a high grade set.Bell Brand cards in PSA 7 and above are very rare and are seldom seen or offered. Many of these cards are held in private collections by fans loyal to the Dodger team. It is not surprising that of the four years, the highest graded complete set so far only has 7.39 grade points. You can pay little attention to the book value when trying to obtain one of these high-grade cards. If and when a quality cards come up for sale or auction, they almost always command a price significantly higher than the listed value based on their great rarity. GUARANTEED 100% AUTHENTIC. Grading Standards by condition:Mint - Card is near perfect, sharp edges, corners, surface with no apparent issues to the naked eyeNr-Mint / NM - Card may have one slight imperfection - small corner issue, light surface or print dot, some minor centering issuesEX-EXMINT - Card may have a couple corner issues, maybe some light surface wear but overall presents nice. No creases at this gradeVG-VGEX - Card may have more corner/edge wear, card may present some surface issues such as a light crease, wrinkle, or wax/stainLow Grade - Card may have multiple wrinkles, heavy corner/edge wear, will grade as Poor/Fair Will combine shipping.

Price: 925.95 USD

Location: Boise, Idaho

End Time: 2024-11-08T16:39:43.000Z

Shipping Cost: 19.95 USD