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Posted By: Peter Thomas

As someone who has 2 highest graded sets (T204 & E103)that were for the most part purchased raw, I do think there are still some high grade raw cards out there, but I don't think many sets. I bought about 800 T204's to put my set together and at one time had 4 complete sets and 2 sets of the square borders. I have sold about 600 of the T204's after grading. In my set there are about 10 cards that I purchased graded, mostly 8's including the Johnson. The raw Johnsons graded 7, 6, 5 and 1, all gone now. I did get a very high grade raw group of 20 cards from Dave Forman in 1995 - those cards graded 1 - 9, 9 - 8's and 10 - 7's. Dave remembers the sale to me at $200 per card, but not where he obtained the cards. Scott Brockelman knows of another nice group of raw T204's, but has lost track of them. I saw a group of 40 raw T204's including a Johnson and a TTT here in Florida two years ago, allthough they are in the 2 - 4 grade range with one possible 7. Will a haul like the CJ's turn up in T204's ? - allmost no chance. My E103's were all purchased raw, most from David Bryant about 10 years ago. I have been able to up grade a few (4 or 5)in graded cards over the last few years. The T204 set has no cards graded less than 5 and the E103 set has no cards graded better than 5. I think that there is zero chance that set or even a group of 7 or 8ish E103's will turn up. Also have sets of E93's, Delong's and 49 Leaf's and am messing with the 4 flavors of E92's and T205's. Why do I do this? hard to say.