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03-16-2008, 03:05 PM
Posted By: <b>bruce Dorskind</b><p><br />Many collectors (as well as dealers and investors)<br />experience the same recurring dream. Wondering into an isolated<br />antique shop or passing by a remote garage sale, one finds<br />a small group of "old baseball cards." <br /><br />For argument's sake lets assume that the "find" is not<br />T206s or 33 Goudeys but a far more obscure set.<br /><br />We wondered what were the chances that "the find" would<br />result in an ultra high grade example (defined as 7+ NQ<br />for this exercise).<br /><br />We looked at eight reasonably difficult, but not impossible,<br />sets and here is what we found<br /><br /><br />Set PSA Graded PSA 7+ SGC Graded SGC 84+ Percentage UH<br /><br />E 107 91 01 369 1 less than .05%<br />E 94 332 23 560 21 5%<br />E 300 67 27 21 2 33%<br />R 300 294 07 213 0 1.28%<br />R 306 53 01 149 0 less than .05%<br />R 328 1091 146 278 49 14.2%<br />R 333 1704 300 735 95 16,2%<br />T 200 631 8 71 1 7.3%<br /><br /><br />Clearly the "odds" against find a raw card that will obtain a very high<br />grade run somewhere between slim and none...but everyone once in<br />a great while...luck is on your side.<br /><br /><br />Bruce Dorskind<br />America's Toughest Want List