This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/13/2024
The 1961 Topps series has produced very few PSA 10 specimens, with only about one out of every 1,000 PSA submissions from the series leaving the California grading factory with a GEM MINT grade. It gets even tougher when you talk about Jim Brown, the flagship card in the series, as out of over 1,700 examples sent to PSA, the featured piece is the only PSA 10 on record. When this card was released, Jim Brown was entering his 5th season and had led the NFL in rushing yards the four previous years. He would do it again in 1961, and every year of his career save for one (in 1962 he finished 4th). He was so much more advanced than anyone else in the league that they just stopped giving him the MVP trophy after his first two seasons. The featured card is perfectly centered with GEM MINT endpoints but also manages to come close to perfection around the perimeter of the powder blue reverse. The image of Brown is amazing, showing the sharpness of color in both the depth of his Cleveland Browns jersey as well as the surrounding blue pigment, largely free of any objectionable stray print that many other high-quality specimens have fallen victim to. This is a spectacular card that has no equal!