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Originally Posted by ALR-bishop
Thanks Larry. What about ungraded, better with the matches ? I was never even sure if Wheaties boxes were more collectible with or without the cereal  |
Al, as Larry said, PSA requires that the matches be removed. Ben has submitted some to Beckett and they do allow the matches to be kept in the matchbook. However, when they encase the matchbooks, they encase them with the matchbook closed. Therefore, any variation would be unidentifiable (Mantle Yoo-Hoo with the cap or book offer and Mantle Country Cookin' with the different addresses). For me personally, I don't buy matchbooks without at least some matches. I think PSA is performing a disservice requiring that the matches be removed. To me, that's like requiring the tab be removed from a Redman before they grade it.