[zonealarm]

I keel you mayn Wrote:Wow, that is stunning. :?

I don't know how much time and money it took from you to get all those, but it must've been a lot.. It's amazing to see all those cards together, a true piece of basketball history. I wish the scans were just a little bigger though.

It took me more than one year to complete the set. I don't know how much money I have spent but it has been a lot for sure. Some of the cards are not that short-printed (according to Topps and Beckett) but they are extremely hard to find. I paid big money to get them. Most of others however were very cheap.

[zonealarm]

dannywong Wrote:Dear KH, I am so happy to know u hv finished another nice set

btw what is yr next goal ??

At this moment, my priority is to make these 2 sets:-

06-07 SPx Rookie Jersey Autographs
07-08 Ultimate Rookie Autographs

I also want to make a few other sets but my budget does not allow me to do several sets at the same time.

[zonealarm]

giantrobot9000 Wrote:Hey, congrats...that's an awesome achievement. I only got halfway with my set and bailed. I wish I hadn't, but I needed the money for something else. I remember when they first came out in 06 how many were on eBay, and the hype about the Earl Monroe and James Silas cards. There was a typo in Beckett about the Fred Brown card that made everyone think there was an uber-rare version, which turned out not to be true (but there are two different stamped/unstamped logos, not sure if either is more rare or not). I checked a few months ago, and they are much harder to find now.

Any chance of trying the refractor set??? I've seen 2-3 complete regular sets now, but I can't imagine many people have a refractor set.

I think you mean the autographed refractor set - #ed out of 10 for each card. I don't think I have enough budget to make it.

[zonealarm]

lagos Wrote:

giantrobot9000 Wrote:Hey, congrats...that's an awesome achievement. I only got halfway with my set and bailed. I wish I hadn't, but I needed the money for something else. I remember when they first came out in 06 how many were on eBay, and the hype about the Earl Monroe and James Silas cards. There was a typo in Beckett about the Fred Brown card that made everyone think there was an uber-rare version, which turned out not to be true (but there are two different stamped/unstamped logos, not sure if either is more rare or not). I checked a few months ago, and they are much harder to find now.

Any chance of trying the refractor set??? I've seen 2-3 complete regular sets now, but I can't imagine many people have a refractor set.

COngrats on completing this set with so many first time signers!!

In the last year those sellers selling the backdoored topps cards have sold probably around 3000+ of these autos, so it has been much easier to complete than before. They have even sold 10+ of the Monroe.
The Brown and the Attles, also have different card stock depending on the logo.
The ones in this set (zonealarm) are the 2 cards that are the most pletiful in the entire set. The brown must have a print run of around 1000, and the Attles 600.
The other versions are the limited versions, this is why I think the Print run beckett gives is for this other version only, since those are harder to find.

Before I was counting how many complete sets. I probably have seen 10 complete sets.
For the chrome, I know 2 collectors are collecting it. With those sellers(backdoored) selling 100's of them(400+) in the last year completing this set has become realistic

Unless the print run released by Topps and Beckett is wrong, none of the cards in the set has more that 500 copies (or 400+ copies). The Brown and Attles should have 216 and 176 copies respectively. I know that there is a different version for these two cards and the print run may be less than 10 copies. I once saw a Brown one when the product was just released. Both the owner and I did not realize that it was a rare one as there were a lot of Brown cards on ebay at that time. He sold it later but refused to disclose how much he sold it. As far as I remember, the card is thicker than other cards.

It appears to me that you have a good knowledge of the set and have followed the set for a long time. So, please correct me if what I have said is wrong.

[zonealarm]

MoeCheeks76 Wrote:This is truly a fantastic achievement. I'm trying to put the set together slowly and it is a huge undertaking. How is your bill bradley corner? I heard it was a factory defect but I've seen a couple that don't look that bad.

Yes, there is a factory defect for the Bill Bradley. I have two and both of them have a ding at the top-left corner. They don't look that bad.

[lagos]

zonealarm Wrote:

lagos Wrote:

giantrobot9000 Wrote:Hey, congrats...that's an awesome achievement. I only got halfway with my set and bailed. I wish I hadn't, but I needed the money for something else. I remember when they first came out in 06 how many were on eBay, and the hype about the Earl Monroe and James Silas cards. There was a typo in Beckett about the Fred Brown card that made everyone think there was an uber-rare version, which turned out not to be true (but there are two different stamped/unstamped logos, not sure if either is more rare or not). I checked a few months ago, and they are much harder to find now.

Any chance of trying the refractor set??? I've seen 2-3 complete regular sets now, but I can't imagine many people have a refractor set.

COngrats on completing this set with so many first time signers!!

In the last year those sellers selling the backdoored topps cards have sold probably around 3000+ of these autos, so it has been much easier to complete than before. They have even sold 10+ of the Monroe.
The Brown and the Attles, also have different card stock depending on the logo.
The ones in this set (zonealarm) are the 2 cards that are the most pletiful in the entire set. The brown must have a print run of around 1000, and the Attles 600.
The other versions are the limited versions, this is why I think the Print run beckett gives is for this other version only, since those are harder to find.

Before I was counting how many complete sets. I probably have seen 10 complete sets.
For the chrome, I know 2 collectors are collecting it. With those sellers(backdoored) selling 100's of them(400+) in the last year completing this set has become realistic

Unless the print run released by Topps and Beckett is wrong, none of the cards in the set has more that 500 copies (or 400+ copies). The Brown and Attles should have 216 and 176 copies respectively. I know that there is a different version for these two cards and the print run may be less than 10 copies. I once saw a Brown one when the product was just released. Both the owner and I did not realize that it was a rare one as there were a lot of Brown cards on ebay at that time. He sold it later but refused to disclose how much he sold it. As far as I remember, the card is thicker than other cards.

It appears to me that you have a good knowledge of the set and have followed the set for a long time. So, please correct me if what I have said is wrong.

I responded earlier, but when I hit post, the screen instead refreshed and my post was lost.
As I mention earlier the brown and Atttles have different card stock depending on the logo.
Last year I would still always see 20+ of Brown and 10+ of attles for sell while the other cards only had 1 or 2.
I even checked ebay yesterday 9 Brown were available, and only one had the rare logo. For the Attles 18 were available and 3 of them had the rare logo.
these cards by far are the most easier to find.
If Attles only had 176 we would not see that many for sell all this time.

I don't know if you ever saw a collector trying to win all the brown cards in ebay. But the Brown cards kept on showing up in bunches. I think he gave up when he had 88+(somehow i also remember 120), since then he was trying to sell it as a lot.
With this evidence of what i have actually seen, is why I say the numbers beckett gives are more likely for the rare logo and don't include the most easier to find version.

Yeah some of the cards were really hard to find when I would search for my set, I made this list last year, before the resent flood of autos.
players like Artis Gilmore
Calvin Murphy
Campy Russell
Eugene Kennedy
Earl Monroe(shortest print run but I have seen more of these than some others)
Howard Porter
Walt Hazzard
Zaid Abdul-Aziz
Austin Carr
Bob Love
Cliff Hagan
Dick Snyder(really hard to find)
John Lucas
Leonard Gray
Rolando Blackman

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lagos Wrote:

rickthebruce Wrote:Amazing set! I've got eight more cards to go on mine. I grabbed the second Attles & Fred Brown last week.

Nice going , did you notice the different card stock aswell?
If you only need 8 a good way to find them is just by searching by their last names if the last name is not that common. Sometimes sellers don't list the set name in the title.
Do you have the DOn Kijis? For that one a player collector of his bids high for that card 35+,

Yeah, I noticed the different card stock, thanks for letting me know about those two. I won Kojis a few weeks ago. I had to beat out the guy you are talking about for $36 or so. I've been searching every couple of days for the last 8. There's a couple in people's stores, but I'm going to see if I can land them a little cheaper. Also I'm heading to the Chicago national in a couple weeks so hopefully I'll see a couple that I need there.

[lagos]

rickthebruce Wrote:

lagos Wrote:

rickthebruce Wrote:Amazing set! I've got eight more cards to go on mine. I grabbed the second Attles & Fred Brown last week.

Nice going , did you notice the different card stock aswell?
If you only need 8 a good way to find them is just by searching by their last names if the last name is not that common. Sometimes sellers don't list the set name in the title.
Do you have the DOn Kijis? For that one a player collector of his bids high for that card 35+,

Yeah, I noticed the different card stock, thanks for letting me know about those two. I won Kojis a few weeks ago. I had to beat out the guy you are talking about for $36 or so. I've been searching every couple of days for the last 8. There's a couple in people's stores, but I'm going to see if I can land them a little cheaper. Also I'm heading to the Chicago national in a couple weeks so hopefully I'll see a couple that I need there.

it took me 18 months to complete and I started when it was just released. I also had a budget for each card, I think it took me around $1800 to complete, At the beginning I over paid for a bunch of them. In 12 months I had all except 2, so it took me 6 months for the last 2.
In good luck in the national.

[bryanday]

how much does the dwill usually go for? nice set to complete

[cardozo]

amazing :o