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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

You know, this is what happened with coins too. After years of this crap, the Early American Coppers club developed their own grading criteria, rarity indices, and related procedural techniques; employed them, and continued reasonable development of their field of specialization.

These 19th Century baseball issues are not really very different in many respects from the coins of the late 18th century. It is a field of study different from other cards, with considerations different from most.