Auction #2 - June 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/23/2019
The 1950 Topps Bring 'Em Back Alive set of (100) cards pictures the antics of Frank Buck and details efforts to bring wild animals back for displaying. The set pictures wild animals in various settings--mostly in their natural habitats chasing and fighting other wild animals. The cards are vivid depictions of the wild animals.
This set is in a very clean EX to EXMT condition with (12) cards graded by PSA to include the following: PSA6 EXMT (4 cards: 2, 31, 68 and 71), PSA5 EX (8 cards: 7, 17, 21, 29, 39, 51, 53 and 78). The lot also includes a pair of press photos. The first is a 3/4 picture of Frank Buck and the other is a shot of Buck bent over talking to a pair of monkeys. In addition to the photos, the lot also includes a pair of Classics Illustrated comic books. Issue #104 pictures a Tiger attacking Frank Buck and is in F to VF condition. The second book is Issue #140, in F to VF condition, and pictures Buck and an assistant feeding a baby elephant. The books are both fifteen cent books.
Originating in the collection of a very advanced PSA collector, this set and a number of others in the auction are high mid-grade sets mostly free of creases and individually sleeved in semi-rigids housed in 4 pocket pages in binders. As with this set, many of the sets are mostly ungraded with some nice or key cards graded as noted.
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