Lot # 189: 1960 Leaf Baseball #61 Vic Rehm (Large Portrait) PSA NM 7

Category: Baseball Cards

Starting Bid: $600.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Auction #4 - December 2024",
which ran from 12/4/2024 12:00 PM to
12/15/2024 10:00 PM



We ran a complete 8 card set of these in our last auction. So in case you missed it, here was how the description began: Most people are probably asking, “What are these cards?” Well, in 1960, Leaf produced a 144-card set that came in two series. The cards feature poses that are pretty much the same: a simple photo of the player from the chest up. However, there are eight strange cards in the set. These feature large headshots of the players, showing them from the neck up and making their heads appear much larger than on the normal cards (hence the nickname “Big Heads”). We assume these were possibly a sampling of the set from 1960 that Leaf could have used as a promotion for the cards, although we’re not exactly sure of the reasoning behind them. What we do know is that these cards are rare—extremely rare. There are a total of 76 cards in the PSA pop report combined for the eight different players. Several decades ago, a find consisted of 35–40 cards, plus these eight that were just uncovered and graded. That accounts for around 50–60% of all the ones that have been through PSA! This Vic Rehm was one extra card to the set that our consignor had. It graded a NM 7 which is a pop 1 and only bested by 1 other example!

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