Icons & Immortals: High-End Sports Memorabilia and Card Auction
Lot 465:
Description
BID PER WHAT YOU SEE IN THE PHOTO, NOT THE AI GENERATED TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS! 1976 Hostess Baseball Card Collection Lot of 50+ Hand-Cut Cards HOFers Eckersley Carter Fingers
This is a significant collection of 1976 Hostess Baseball cards, a classic food issue set originally distributed on the bottom of Hostess snack cake boxes such as Twinkies and CupCakes. This lot features over 50 hand-cut individual cards, including several prominent Hall of Famers and stars. Notable cards identified include Dennis Eckersley (number 122) in his early career, Gary Carter (number 108), and Rollie Fingers (number 105). Other featured players include Buddy Bell (number 123), Bobby Grich (number 50), Bob Watson (number 143), and Felix Millan (number 65). The cards feature the iconic 1976 design with full-color photography and a patriotic red, white, and blue player information bar at the bottom. These cards were intended to be hand-cut by the original owners along dashed lines, and this lot consists of cards already separated from their original three-card panels.
Condition report:
These are ungraded, hand-cut specimens. Centering varies based on the original cut, but most appear reasonably centered within the dashed guidelines. Corners generally show light to moderate softening and typical fuzzing associated with the cardboard stock used for food packaging. Edges are mostly straight with some minor unevenness from the hand-cutting process. Surface condition varies across the lot: the Buddy Bell card has a prominent diagonal crease in the upper right corner, and the Bobby Grich card exhibits surface scuffing and ink loss in the lower blue section. Several other cards show light surface impressions or minor creasing consistent with handled cards from this era. Overall condition range is Fair to Very Good (FR-VG).
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