Topps Living Set

[tdubs1010]

Great week! Vaughn and Eck. Cannot wait to get Eck's print signed.

[Joliet Jake]

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #691 - Mo Vaughn - PR: 1554
Mo Vaughn is the Boston Red Sox 31st franchise and team member featured.


Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #692 - Dennis Eckersley - PR: 1745
Dennis Eckersley is the Oakland Athletics 26th franchise and team member, and 80th Hall of Fame member featured.

[kidfan9]

Two legends in one week?!?! AWESOME!!!! Please keep it up!

[astrotrevor]

Wow. What a week! Two deserving additions and amazing artwork.

[Joliet Jake]

I'd like to see Paul Molitor with Milwaukee (AL) sooner than later. He and Eckersley are the two Hall of Fame inductees from the class of 2004.

[kidfan9]

Since Topps seems to monitor this topic I’m putting it a special request. I’d love to see Ted Williams added as the Washington Senators manager. Please and thank you!!!

[astroshane]

Wow ! What a week. Amazing selections and the artwork on both easily gets an A +. Love the accurate scowls reflected in the portraits.

[eldavojohn]

FYI on COMC there's a couple sellers just giving away a lot of these cards for $1 each. I was able to fill a lot of holes from before I started collecting this set.

Disclaimer: the $1 price is only if you buy them while logged in. What I do is put money in with paypal (you pay tax at this point) and then I buy a bunch of cards and request shipment. They're super slow to ship but shipping is cheap and it's great for tons of cheap cards like these.

Just thought I would share if anyone needs to complete more of their set on the cheap.

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

FYI on COMC there's a couple sellers just giving away a lot of these cards for $1 each. I was able to fill a lot of holes from before I started collecting this set.

Disclaimer: the $1 price is only if you buy them while logged in. What I do is put money in with paypal (you pay tax at this point) and then I buy a bunch of cards and request shipment. They're super slow to ship but shipping is cheap and it's great for tons of cheap cards like these.

Just thought I would share if anyone needs to complete more of their set on the cheap.

Thank you for the heads up.

Hopefully some collectors will be able to fill holes in their set, or use this as a jumping in point.

[Chihuahuas]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

FYI on COMC there's a couple sellers just giving away a lot of these cards for $1 each. I was able to fill a lot of holes from before I started collecting this set.

Disclaimer: the $1 price is only if you buy them while logged in. What I do is put money in with paypal (you pay tax at this point) and then I buy a bunch of cards and request shipment. They're super slow to ship but shipping is cheap and it's great for tons of cheap cards like these.

Just thought I would share if anyone needs to complete more of their set on the cheap.

Thanks so much!!

[mrconn1981]

Originally Posted by tdubs1010

Great week! Vaughn and Eck. Cannot wait to get Eck's print signed.

Hey bud I sent you a message a while back regarding a card I think you need, it's a Roy wood Allen ginter mini /30 if you are interested

[Joliet Jake]

Kerry Wood and Aramis Ramírez were announced as the 2024 Cubs Hall of Fame inductees at CubsCon last night. Would be nice to see both of them in the set this year.

[Joliet Jake]

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #693 - William Contreras - PR: 1268
William Contreras is the Milwaukee Brewers 16th franchise and team member featured.


Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #694 - Leody Taveras - PR: 1215
Leody Taveras is the Texas Rangers 20th franchise and 19th team member featured.

[rlwalkre]

Also noteworthy, the Contreras portrait is Angel's 50th Living Set submission. Congratulations Angel, we all hope to see many more.

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by rlwalkre

Also noteworthy, the Contreras portrait is Angel's 50th Living Set submission. Congratulations Angel, we all hope to see many more.

Noteworthy, indeed.

Congratulations to Angel! I'm looking forward to the next 50.

[Joliet Jake]

Congratulations to the Hall of Fame Class of 2024!

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #90 - Adrian Beltre - PR: 4585


Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #75 - Joe Mauer - PR: 4725


Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #275- Todd Helton - PR: 2044

[Joliet Jake]

Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #695 - Torii Hunter - PR: 1408
Torii Hunter is the Minnesota Twins 24th franchise and team member featured.


Topps MLB® Living Set® Card #696 - Ha-Seong Kim - PR: 1303
Ha-Seong Kim is the San Diego Padres 26th franchise and team member featured.

[kidfan9]

Keep the retired players coming!!!!!

[Joliet Jake]

Originally Posted by kidfan9

Keep the retired players coming!!!!!

Hear, hear!

[MtnAg08]

Torii was my favorite player not on "my team" in high school and college. So happy to see him represented in the set!

[Chihuahuas]

Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

Hear, hear!

Good mix this week. Kim is an overlooked star player IMHO. Stunning artwork from the artists also. Long live the Living Set.

[Dukefett]

Glad to see Kim, he's great!

[tdubs1010]

Torii is a welcome addition! Well done!

[Chihuahuas]

All, not sure if this is proper group for this question, but wondering if anyone else has experience on artist autograph verification failure at PSA. I had another Living Set Jared signed card psa/dna verified and slabbed previously with no issues, but just had 3 returned saying unable to determine of both Angel and Jared. All cards ordered directly from artists that had proof authenticity proof enclosed.

When I asked psa support during verification step and sent those verifications they said don’t honor 3rd party authentication. I can understand human opinion is part of the process & luck of the draw sometimes so I sent those certificates of authenticity to support & so grader could have 2 independent signatures to look at and help determine are authentic. I am thinking of resubmitting but don’t want PSA to think I am pulling a fast one, plus this isn’t cheap.

I treasure artist signed cards so not even considering selling. I just want to have PSA slabbed for safe keeping and match in my other Living Set PSA graded display.

Has anyone else had this happen?
Any advice?
Does anyone know what codes N0 and N9 means?

P.S. - I’m new to grading & never sent or even considered or valued enough to invest in so I am newbie on grading. Not complaining or slamming grader or grading service. Just curious since I’ve never had happened before and was heart broken.

Would appreciate your thoughts.

Long live the Living Set.

[jaredkelley]

Originally Posted by Chihuahuas

All, not sure if this is proper group for this question, but wondering if anyone else has experience on artist autograph verification failure at PSA. I had another Living Set Jared signed card psa/dna verified and slabbed previously with no issues, but just had 3 returned saying unable to determine of both Angel and Jared. All cards ordered directly from artists that had proof authenticity proof enclosed.

When I asked psa support during verification step and sent those verifications they said don’t honor 3rd party authentication. I can understand human opinion is part of the process & luck of the draw sometimes so I sent those certificates of authenticity to support & so grader could have 2 independent signatures to look at and help determine are authentic. I am thinking of resubmitting but don’t want PSA to think I am pulling a fast one, plus this isn’t cheap.

I treasure artist signed cards so not even considering selling. I just want to have PSA slabbed for safe keeping and match in my other Living Set PSA graded display.

Has anyone else had this happen?
Any advice?
Does anyone know what codes N0 and N9 means?

P.S. - I’m new to grading & never sent or even considered or valued enough to invest in so I am newbie on grading. Not complaining or slamming grader or grading service. Just curious since I’ve never had happened before and was heart broken.

Would appreciate your thoughts.

Long live the Living Set.

Hmm this is strange. I would have expected PSA to reach out to me before declining to authenticate my signature. I'm pretty easy to reach with a simple google search.

If you feel comfortable posting images of my signed cards here, I'd love to see them. Otherwise, feel free to message me directly. I have thought this might occur, at least with my foil signed cards. That's why I posted my process a while back on social media so people can see I'm actually hand-signing with foil, not machine stamping a signature.