The Chicago Cracker Jack Find

[Boccabella]

http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com...ker-jack-find/

[T205 GB]

Damn if they could only have waited a few more months and brought them to the show that would have been a great find! Why Beckett grading though?

[Leon]

I wonder if it is because Beckett owns Goodwin?

Originally Posted by T205 GB

Damn if they could only have waited a few more months and brought them to the show that would have been a great find! Why Beckett grading though?

[samosa4u]

Beckett has a very small market share when it comes to vintage cards. If I was the owner of these Cracker Jacks, I would not have given it to them for encapsulation. I believe that whoever wins these cards will crack them out.

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by Leon

I wonder if it is because Beckett owns Goodwin?

Possibly. The article just says a friend told him to send them to beckett. My guess is this friend also has limited hobby knowledge but remembered the magazine or Googled something. Too bad their search didn't lead them here first. Cool story though. Hard to believe those cards could have just been sitting in some shoebox for the last 100 years.

[AGuinness]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

Possibly. The article just says a friend told him to send them to beckett. My guess is this friend also has limited hobby knowledge but remembered the magazine or Googled something. Too bad their search didn't lead them here first. Cool story though. Hard to believe those cards could have just been sitting in some shoebox for the last 100 years.

Or the "friend" had an affiliation with Beckett already.

How does it work if one of the winners does crack the slab and submit the card to PSA or SGC, when it comes to the label and the "Chicago Cracker Jack Find" denotation? Would PSA/SGC put that on? If not, I'm guessing there is a small risk of reducing the potential resale price as I think sometimes these labels (Black Swamp Find, etc.) might demand a small premium, right?

[Stonepony]

My guess would be that in a year there won't be many of these cards in a " Chicago find" slab. It would make no difference to me anyway.

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by Leon

I wonder if it is because Beckett owns Goodwin?

From what I have heard, Bill is allowed to send his cards to any of the three major TPG's. However, I do believe Andy B. is as good if not better than anyone at the other grading companies and I'd wager he was the one who graded those cards

Rich

[T_Hamilton]

If cracked and sent to PSA, do you think they will mark "Chicago Cracker Jack Find" on the slab?

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by T_Hamilton

If cracked and sent to PSA, do you think they will mark "Chicago Cracker Jack Find" on the slab?

No. They might if you ask them about it first and submit without cracking though.

[orly57]

Originally Posted by T_Hamilton

If cracked and sent to PSA, do you think they will mark "Chicago Cracker Jack Find" on the slab?

I guarantee you they won't. Last June, I considered buying the 52 mantle on LOTG that came from a big find in Texas. It was a far bigger find than this one (the guy had albums and albums of cards). Before bidding, I reached out to psa to see if they would relabel it (they knew it was from that find, and didn't put it on the label). I was told that the find was too "small" for them to label it.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by T_Hamilton

If cracked and sent to PSA, do you think they will mark "Chicago Cracker Jack Find" on the slab?

PSA will slab it saying anything you want. It is a service they provide I believe it costs $5 per card in addition to the grading fees. SGC does the same.

EDIT: hmmm I went to post the link to this service and I can't find it anymore. It used to be no big deal. Like I said you could ask them to put almost anything on the slab like Marshall Fogel Collection, Dmitri Young Collection, Bob's Collection etc... Maybe they don't offer that anymore. Anyone who buys a lot of cards has seen the infamous "Collector's Collection" cards from SGC. Yup somebody paid to put the most generic thing imaginable on their slabs. I personally have had hundreds of these pass through my hands. I probably still have some. I have seen thousands.

[ruth-gehrig]

Love these stories! Thanks for sharing

[JamesGallo]

Wow that is pretty amazing. It is crazy that people still have no clue that this stuff is worth money. It seems everyone that have 80s and 90s cards thinks they are worth a ton, but the people that have cards 100 years old don't think they are worth anything.

I am not sure Beckett was the best grading company either but it was probably who they contacted first.

James G