53. 1955 Armour set in black, with all variations, finally completed

Sometimes Armour coin collecting is like a roller coaster ride ...you can go for months adding nothing to your set and then all of a sudden things heat up. 

That has happened recently to me. First lets discuss one of my 1955 sets. There are 24 different coins in the set and with variations PSA recognizes 38 coins when we include variations. By now we all know about the Spahn "comma" variation which is officially not recognized by PSA yet.  So for someone seeking a

complete set in black I think you would need 39 coins. 

I recently just finished the set with the acquisition on a Mantle correct L or R . I have seen probably a half dozen of these over the past 20 years but was never willing to pay the auction price that these went for. This time I finally paid the price to finish the set. 

I will eventually get it graded once PSA drops its prices back to reality. 

This coin actually wasn't the hardest of the (39) 1955s to get in black, it was just  the most expensive.  

So what was the most difficult to get ? Was it a Kuenn Bats/Throws ?? or maybe  Jensen "RED" Sox ? or maybe a Trucks "White Sox" 2 words ?? 

Nope, actually is was the Kuenn condensed. Only seen one of them in the past 20 years and it is  tucked away in my "midnight black" set known as 42nd st.  

If you have one of these please let me know.

As it says in my PSA set description "Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street" ....times square....the core of the big apple. This was our local subway stop in Hells Kitchen when I was growing up. The goal of this set is to complete the variation rich 1955 set in MIDNIGHT black ! Has the complete 1955 armour set with variations ever been completely assembled in the rare black color before ?? I don't know, but we do know never as a PSA registered set. Right now the Mantle correct L or R variation is keeping me from the full set. "

Well the The Mantle correct L or R variation no longer keeps me from the full PSA graded set...Now it is held up by the $150 PSA wants me to pay to grade it........