As a general premise, I'd assert that for most pre-war baseball cards (particularly ones with corners -- discs, rounded game cards, etc. don't count)
there are likely very few raw, unaltered examples out there that would grade at MINT 9 through either PSA or SGC. Many of us may know a handful of collections that may have some examples of virgin, high grade cards. But 80+ years later, with centering, corner touches, fading, etc. -- it is hard to imagine (m)any cards in the unaltered state existing in MINT condition.
Every now and then you hear about finds which are the anomalies that drive this hobby -- the 1914 CJ set, the Black Swamp find, etc. -- but in most of those cases, you have cards that were often untouched or handled for decades.
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