Colossus: A Vintage Epilogue

It took five battles to defeat the Colossus:

1. Set building additions
2. Serial Numbered cards
3. Player Collection additions
4. Game Used Relics
5. Autographs

The reward for taking down such a ferocious beast?  Vintage!  Glorious vintage!

Nearly three inches of top loader encased cardboard from 1978.  A complete team set!

 Good chunks of Cubs cards from from 1977 and 1976...

A healthy helping of cards from 1973 and 1972...

 1971, 1970, and some duplicates from 1969...

A sizable offering from 1968...

A sweet Randy Hundley rookie from 1967 and eleven cards from 1966...

 Some cards that were redone with recent editions of Topps Heritage: 1965 & 1964...

Half a dozen cards from 1963, a Moe Drabowsky from 1960, and three from 1959...

A 1955 Bill Tremel and a 1954 Ben Scheffing...

And then it got crazy.  A pair from the 1952 Bowman set.  Just beautiful!

Here are the two recent additions with the three I already had in my collection. 

And last, but certainly not least, I give you the oldest card in my collection:

 A 1951 Bowman card of Hal Jeffcoat!

What an unbelievable haul!  Vintage with actual creases, stains, tears, soft corners...  so great!  In my estimation, that's the way vintage should be!  Loved!

I big THANK YOU to Wes, from Jaybarkerfan's Junk, for sending such a tremendous package of cards my way.  My man room was seemingly in disrepair for the better part of a month as I sorted and collated my way through the boxes.  Many of the cards found their way into binders, some remained in their top loaders, but all of them are now part of a very happy blogger's collection.  Thanks, Wes!