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Originally Posted by Flintboy
90% of the cards he picked out were modern.
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I bet 90%+ of the cards submitted were modern. Look, there really aren’t that many prewar cards out there, and I bet a good portion of prewar cards extant (
) have already been graded or will not be graded unless/until the current owner sells; in other words, many more prewar collectors, whereas all modern must be in plastic bc it’s an asset rather than something to collect. For that reason alone it makes sense that 90% of the cards in his article are modern/post war.
Ok, big difference between modern and post war…. I do think there are likely a ton of postwar cards still raw (1945-1980). I wonder how many of these were submitted. I bet not many as the juice is probably not worth the squeeze - who wants to pay those prices to grade a 1967 Rose that grades a 5?
Thoughts: Of the cards currently being submitted to PSA, what percentage is prewar (1942ish or older), post-war vintage (1942-1980), modern (1981-2010), ultra modern (2010+). And, how does that break down differ with SGC (I assume more vintage) and Beckett (I assume much more modern)?
BTW- aside from prewar, I made up those temporal distinctions but I think they make sense