Ty Cobb selling for good money....

[Leon]

Nice question and answer too....Personally I think the questioner probably got it right .


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extremely-Ra...item3ce65cf61f



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[cardsfan73]

But the card is numbered & graded!!

[Sean]

Who the f.... is this grading service? PSVA ?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Sean

Who the f.... is this grading service? PSVA ?

Professional Sports Very Authenticator, I think?

[cardsfan73]

So all I need to do is buy a large amount of screw down holders & some Avery labels from the office supply store and I can start my own grading card company!

Does anyone want to join me on this lucrative business venture?

[Matvoo]

Possibly
Professional Sports Vintage Authenticators

[barrysloate]

Plus he scoured the internet. Nothing wrong with this one.

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by Leon

Nice question and answer too....Personally I think the questioner probably got it right .


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extremely-Ra...item3ce65cf61f



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I was the questioner. I am surprised he allowed it to appear on his bidpage. This is what I replied:

Dear aglazier,
Not my opinion. It is a fact. Your card is a page cut from a Spalding's Official Baseball Guide. The number you refer to is the page number in the book, not a card number in a set. There are a couple of guys on eBay who for many years have made a cottage industry of breaking up old books, slabbing and grading the pages themselves, and passing them off to naive buyers as valuable collectibles. I have been collecting vintage baseball cards for fifteen years. Let me assure you that PSVA is not a bona fide grading company. "A great investment on a real piece of baseball heritage sure to go up in value over time" is just fluffy BS. These items are held in contempt by serious sports card collectors. Maybe you already know this, maybe you don't. EBay doesn't hold a seller to an honest standard so here's hoping you act in good conscience.


That he didn't post. In fact he received a second bid, or shill, or whatever. I am half-waiting for him to reply that he will report me to eBay for interfering in his auction or some such crock. Fact is he can do whatever the hell he pleases with this Ty Cobb "card". Some sucker will get ripped off, the hobby will be incrementally diminished and eBay won't care a bit.

[kmac32]

Not my cup of tea but I have collected a few pages from Spalding guides as they featured my great great uncle Elmer Miller. Think I may have paid a max of $5.00. Nowhere near what this auction is going for and I was collecting just for family archives. They were advertised as pages from Spalding guides when I bought mine.

[DHogan]

Professional Sports Vaguely Authentic ?

[Shoebox]

About 10 years ago I was the dumb schmuck wasting $15 on a Grover Alexander Spalding page. That didnt understand that VSA and FGS werent at least roughly equivelent to PSA and BGS. Live and learn but a handful of purchases left me feeling rather jaded and cynical about the hobby. About then I decided maybe to stay out of collecting and for several years I didnt buy anymore. I am back collecting again and hopefully at least slightly less naive than I was then. I am glad to see honest collectors trying to save guys like me from making too costly of mistakes.

[roce4e52]

I would hope that he tightens down the screws in that holder before shipping! I want my mint professionally graded cards to stay that way.

[yanksfan09]

pretty sure were very amateur...?

[steve B]

Originally Posted by roce4e52

I would hope that he tightens down the screws in that holder before shipping! I want my mint professionally graded cards to stay that way.

Whoever does that "grading" uses pop rivets. Should be tight enough. I'm surprised they work without cracking the screwdown.

Steve B

[GasHouseGang]

But wasn't there a thread where PSA now grades these magazine cuts? If so, maybe you could buy it and cross it to a PSA holder