Description: This is pretty much a "unicorn" This is a virtually never seen 100% complete album of this elusive and important futebol issue. The set which contains what PSA and most collectors recognize to be a Pel rookie! The complete World Cup Champion Brazilian team is the very first card on the first page. Interestingly, the set did not contain a solo Pel card but it does have cards of Garrincha, Gilmar Bellini, Zito, Didi, Vava, etc. It also includes Di Stefano, Puskas, Mentor, Socrates, etc. The last of major soccer stars just goes on and on. These cards are all in remarkably clean and virtually unhandled condition, with the obvious exception of them having been nearly pasted into the album. If you had them professionally removed, as only a brief search of this issue will reveal, the break up value is enormous. But having them all intact in such remarkable condition, and as they were intended to be saved, is also most impressive and collectible The album states on the front cover that there's 378 color cards. But the sign has NO empty spots and they're all numbered from 1-345. Some of the cards seem to be a touch loose. We're not messing with this, but from the one picture in our group of pictures, you can see how clean the backs seem to be.. I'd highly doubt that you'll ever again see another one of these, and certainly not as clean and complete as this one is. ************************** At the end of our pictures are three graded examples of cards within this album. Obviously, there are no graded cards included, just the COMPLETE SET, AS ISSUED, within the album, as intended. The last image was Pel's personal example from this issue. It's the finest known example of this important card, and it was OWNED by Pel and signed by Pel, in the presence of PSA, within the last few weeks of his life. We also own THAT card, but it is also not being sold here. But feel free to message us if you want to own the single finest and most important known card from this exceedingly rare Spanish issue. *********************** For he Brazil team #1 card from this set, the highest example ever graded is only a PSA 2, which we own. Amazingly and rather appropriately, the example that Pel owned was graded a PSA 6!!!
Price: 4000 USD
Location: Belvedere Tiburon, California
End Time: 2024-12-03T00:31:05.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Album Completion: Complete
Type: Sports Sticker
Sport: Soccer
Collection: futebol
Year Manufactured: 1958
Team: All Nations
Number of Stickers Included: 345
Season: 1958-59
Country/Region of Manufacture: Spain
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original