T206 PSA Unknown Backs

[Mountaineer1999]

Thinking out loud: I really wish PSA would make a concerted effort to get all the Unknown Backs classified. They could poll the owners for pictures and then go back and assign the backs to these cards with just a little effort.

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer1999

They could poll the owners for pictures and then go back and assign the backs to these cards with just a little effort.

Actually, that seems like a lot of effort
& I doub't that the majority would comply w/ scans to PSA
and were talking thousands of cards.

[Mountaineer1999]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

Actually, that seems like a lot of effort
& I doub't that the majority would comply w/ scans to PSA
and were talking thousands of cards.

I wasn't really too concerned about their effort but you're right, it may take a lot of work. I just thought some cards removed from 'unknown' would be better than none. Looking at the POP Report, I can no longer even tell what % of cards are unknown now. Is it 1/3 , 1/2.....? I'm not a statistician but I assume one could just take the current POP for a given card and multiply.

[packs]

Not enough interest from the hobby as a whole to dedicate that much time to something like this in my opinion. T206's may be popular on the board but I would think modern grading outnumbers T206's (or vintage cards in general)by a huge margin.

I would also think the percentage of people who collect T206s by backs are even smaller than the percentage of the whole who collect T206s at all.

[Mountaineer1999]

Originally Posted by packs

Not enough interest from the hobby as a whole to dedicate that much time to something like this in my opinion. T206's may be popular on the board but I would think modern grading outnumbers T206's (or vintage cards in general)by a huge margin.

I would also think the percentage of people who collect T206s by backs are even smaller than the percentage of the whole who collect T206s at all.

This is a good point too.... Looking at PSA, T206 makes up only 1.6% of all the PSA graded baseball cards.

[MVSNYC]

I've said this in the past. The pop report is totally useless, due to so many "unknown" cards. When auction houses refer to the rarity of a particular back (1 of 3 at this level, none higher) it's rubbish.

[bobbvc]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer1999

This is a good point too.... Looking at PSA, T206 makes up only 1.6% of all the PSA graded baseball cards.

Actually 1.6% of all PSA cards sounds huge to me. What set has a higher proportion? With the thousands of sets out there, I would think T206 would be near the top with that number.

Also, PSA, and SGC, BVG for that matter could re-grade at 50% off all no-name back T206's and probably get a lot of them regraded. Not all of course, but an easy, cheap win-win for the hobby.