I ran across this hilarious want ad in the April 1977 issue of The Trader Speaks from a collector looking for a 1947 Tip-Top Bread MIke Tresh card.
Bill Haber wrote that he had 162 different Tip-Tops. If you weren’t tracking, there are 163 cards in the regionally distributed set, so he was missing just one, hence his desire to “pay through the nose” for it.
After a quick online search, I only found a single example. This one was part of a lot of eight 1947 Tip-Top Bread A.L. and N.L. Chicago players. Heritage sold the lot for $74 in June 2009.
PSA has only graded three examples, including this one, which resides in the top-rated set on the registry.
Awesome way to get readers’ attention!
Of course I’ve never owned one, and even if I had one at that time I’m not sure I would have been interested in his snot-money!
It definitely stood out on the page! Snot-money, ha!