Auction #19 - February 23, 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2025
The 1952 Topps Look 'N See set was one of the many home run's that Topps hit during the year of 1952. The smaller format cards picture famous people with great artwork on the front and an orange hued background. The packs of cards also included an orange celluloid film that, when placed over the back of the card, allowed the person looking to see a comic about the person on the front of the card. Hence, the 'Look N See' title. The large set has become very popular in higher grade over the years with stiff competition on the PSA registry. This is evident by the 16,000+ graded Look 'N See cards on just the PSA registry. We are lucky to have a number of high grade Look 'N See cards in this auction.
This spectacular 135-card series, issued in small format, is one of the most popular non-sports issues of the 1950s. It depicts historical figures in color paintings on the fronts, with biographical information on the backs. The back of each card asks a question, which is answered in a disguised image on the back. The answer is revealed by application of translucent red paper (provided with this set) to the back (the source of the series’ name.) The cards average EX-MT to NM. Included are nineteen PSA-graded cards, with an average grade of 6.4. Key graded cards include #1 FDR PSA-6, #15 Babe Ruth PSA-4.5, #82 Rembrandt PSA-6, and #135 Dolly Madison PSA-7. All cards are mounted on plastic pages in a looseleaf binder for convenient viewing. Magnificent and tough to find this nice!
Breakdown on the PSA-Graded cards is as follows: PSA4.5 VGEX+(1 Card: #15 Babe Ruth), PSA6 EXMT 9 (6 Cards: #1 Franklin Roosevelt, #24 Phineas T. Barnum, #30 Charles Lindbergh, #82 Rembrant, #108 Michaelangelo and #110 Nero), PSA6.5 EXMT+ (1 card: #98 Adlai Stevenson), PSA7 NM (9 cards: #2 Woodrow Wilson, #56 Geronimo, #90 Benedict Arnold, #95 Al Smith, #105 Leonardo Da Vinci, #114 Percy Shelley, #122 Capt. William Kidd, #125 Charles Dickens and #135 Dolly Madison), PSA8 NMMT(OC) (1 Card: #106 Machiavelli) and PSA9 Mint(OC) (1 Card: #107 George C. Marshall).
All Graded cards are shown in the inset larger photos and the entire set, front and back images, are contained in the attached, downloadable PDF file.
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