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Old 11-06-2012, 01:29 PM
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Am I just a weirdo?
No, there are a lot of us, here on Net54 and elsewhere. In fact, there is a whole organization of collectors who collect off-grade cards - OBC. There was a recent thread about OBC. I like to think there is plenty of room in the hobby for collectors of any stripe.

OBC has its own (tounge-in-cheek) grading system: The Tipton Grading Scale. Several years ago I was at Cooperstown, and had the Tipton grading guidelines placed into the Hall of Fame library. Here is a link to the guidelines:
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www.oldbaseball.com/funstuff/Gurugrading.htm
For example, here is a GGS-8 card I recently acquired:

As the label indicates, Guru (Larry Tipton) acquired these cards at the last National, no doubt at great expense. I have a theory (undocumented) that the "Sewer Find" cards came from Ed Norton's personal collection.
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