OJ Cap Anson in uniform - how rare is it

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Posted By: Colt McClelland

I'm not very knowledgeable on OJ's, so I was wondering if others could comment on how rare the Cap Anson in uniform card that SGC just graded is. In other words, is it really that rare compared to other OJ's, or is it just an extremely desirable card.

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Posted By: Ben

My understanding is that there are only 4 known copies of the Old Judge Anson in uniform card. So yeah....extremely rare and one of the premier cards in the hobby.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Is the newly graded SGC Anson new to the hobby? Or is it one of the original known 4?

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Posted By: leon

The newly graded one is an SGC70 and is one of the 4-5, I believe.....

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Posted By: Matt E.

Let's see Cap in uniform

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Posted By: Ben

A SGC 70 is incredible....

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Posted By: Brent Butcher

Didn't SGC also grade a G&B Spaulding over the weekend? And didn't we see that Spaulding posted here abut 6 months ago?

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Posted By: Colt McClelland

Any explanation as to why the Anson in uniform card is so rare?

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Posted By: Marc S.

But there are a huge number of OJs where specific poses and such are extraordinarily rare - not just the Anson in uniform. It just happens that the Anson in uniform is a particularly cool card of a great baseball pioneer, so it gets a lot of attention. But I've seen some advanced OJ collectors pay thousands for trimmed-down copies of unknown commons because of the rarity of that particular pose, etc.

~ms