Posted By:
bruce Dorskind
We attended the East Coast National which opened at 5:00 PM on Thursday evening
August 16.
We have attended this show for many, many years. Thursday evening usually traditionally
drew large crowds.
There were less than 200 attendees at the show.
With the exception of "auction preview" booths - Memory Lane and Huggins and Scott
there was not a single ultra high grade N C, D, E or R card for sale.
We saw about 150 cracker jacks (at three different tables)- not one was graded above a 5
(rather pathetic for that set). The T 206's were generally ungraded with a plethora of
3,4,5's.
The Goudeys(90% 1933) were 6 and below.
There were some leftovers from The (real) Natonal in the E category-but these cards
could be described as "beaters" at best.
We would suggest that anyone wishing to have an item graded attend because the PSA,
SGC and Spence booths were empty.
It was a disappointing experience indeed. We did not make purchases. In fact, we never
found a single item that we even would have added to our collection if it were priced at a dollar.
Clearly the days of the regional show have passed. Rare, ultra high grade material
can only be found at auctions or via private transactions between long-time collectors.
Bruce Dorskind
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