Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Winter 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2023
Released for the 54th season of National Football League action, the Miami Dolphins, who won the Super Bowl with a league’s only perfect season a year prior, would become the first team to repeat as Super Bowl Champions since the Green Bay Packers did so in the first two Super Bowls ever played, defeating the Minnesota Vikings 24-7. Led by rookie cards of Franco Harris and Ken Stabler, presented here is this 1973 Topps Football near complete set. An assembly of 526 out of the 528 cards that make up the checklist, the set offered here is missing only cards #11 of Randy Jackson and #37 of Joe Taylor. Headlined by kingpin rookie offerings of Franco Harris (65-35 centering left-to-right) and Ken Stabler (slight corner wear) that are found in the condition vicinity of EX-MT/NM and EX-MT+ respectively, the 526 included cards make up a strong EX-MT set with many falling in the scope of NM and about 10% showing small amounts of corner wear. High-grade stars include examples of 100-Csonka, 211-Eller, 300-Butkus and 500-Simpson (80-20 centering left-to-right) with the quartet in a condition of range of EX-MT/NM and mirroring the Harris RC. Cards that fall in the range of EX-MT and EX-MT+ include other notable names such as 15-Bradshaw (slight diamond cut), 60-Tarkenton (slight corner wear), 295-Griese (70-30 centering right-to-left, 400-Namath (slight corner wear), 455-Unitas (small top left corner ding) and 475-Staubach (slight loss of gloss/fading) with only card #280 of “Mean” Joe Greene falling short of the same grade in our opinion, instead placing around VG-EX/EX due to smudges over the front. The four checklists remain unmarked and, in a condition, similar to the rest of the cards except for #358 which has a corner ding. A great trip down memory lane to the days of the much rougher NFL, we’re positive our lucky winning bidder will be pleased with this one.
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