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Originally Posted by sflayank
Pop report IS COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS
On regionals....probably less than 5% of esskay briggs hunters etc r in the pop..only the true collector knows which certain cards in those sets are much rarer than the others...the pop is a waste of time for regionals and test issues...tells the collector absolutely nothing
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Larry, if we were to converse at length on the matter, I'm sure you're dead on right. I was coming from the standpoint that with most of the classic regionals, the pop report is a good guage to determine relative rarity. I was thinking in terms of Glendales, Wilsons, Dan-Dees, Kellogg's 3-Ds, Salada Coins, Stahl-Meyers, Morrells, Bell Brands, Dormand Post Cards, Bazookas, Post Cereal, etc.
However, with the examples you provide, that's an entirely different proposition because of one thing. The prime common denoninator with the cards you mentioned, Esskay, Briggs, and Hunter's Wieners, is the fact that all of them are hand-cut cards. It is probably unwise to get one's hopes up very high with PSA grading them, because I really think they don't have a good handle on how to grade them, numerically. Then again, most children didn't have a good handle on that matter of cutting the card off the product package, either, as I wrote in my book. True, I included Bazookas and Post Cereal, both hand-cut card issues, in my list. The difference with those two brands was that the manufacturer kindly provided a clear cut defined dashed line where the cards were to be cut off the package.
Sadly, most collectors equate "Authentic" with genuine worthlessness, which, depending on the issue, IS INDEED BALDERDASH! Years after we're gone, a card or small find of the three you mention will show up at the doors of the various auction houses. All that to say a substantial number of them have not been submitted to PSA or SGC because the owners felt it was a waste of time, money, and effort to only get back "AUTHENTIC" cards in return. ---Brian Powell