This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/12/2024
Doing what we do for a living, we get to see an immense amount of tremendous items. Having been in this business for over forty years one develops a great idea for what is truly scarce or even rare. In the time that I have personally been involved in the sports collectibles industry I truly do not remember seeing a complete 1962 Jell-O set being offered within any major auction, nor have I seen a complete set for sale at any of the numerous shows that I have attended over the last four decades. As advanced Jell-O collectors can easily tell you the 1962 release is a confounding assemblage with the 197 card set having most likely been issued strictly in the Midwest. Many collectors believe the set was either released as a test release or at the very least was easily amongst the most confounding releases of any national release of cards from the entire decade of the 1960's. The difficulty of the set surrounds many of the "short printed" cards from the release. When we discuss cards being short printed, it may actually just be a fact of the card being released on a very unpleasant flavor of gelatin and therefore a card which truly becomes scarce in the current market. The featured complete set is truly remarkable for its true rarity as well as the presentation of the cards. The set is uniformly well cut and is presented in most cases with straight edges and not jagged cuts. A great majority of the cards are cut within the black edges and not outside the black edges, but with this release you have to take what you can find. We have taken the liberty to get most all of the stars as well as the exceptionally difficult short prints graded by PSA with all of the cards having been graded Authentic by PSA. A tremendous opportunity to acquire a set that simply does not exist in complete set form.