I imagine we've all had that one awful choice where everything went south. Mine wasn't pre-war (or even baseball), but the spirit is the same!
In February, I bought an 1969-70 basketball raw partial set (86/99) that included the key cards:
- After receiving them, the cards were barely acceptable compared to the pics. I always try to find situations where the worst case scenario for raw cards is still good enough, and these barely even passed that. Almost sent them back. In retrospect, naturally I should have.
- The timing couldn't have been worse. Paid a very mediocre (at best) price at the time, and it was right at the market peak.
- When I finally got tall boy sleeves/top loaders and took them out of the binder recently, found some commons and one minor HOFer that were horribly bent. An unexpected new replacement list.
- Those sleeves (which I got just for these and were ultra pro, no less) were too tight for the cards in all ways. Couldn't even use them out of concern for eventual warping.
- Accidentally tore up my hands getting everything in and out of the aforementioned sheets and top loaders. They just weren't sized that well.
- For the cherry on top, the storage box for this endeavor of fail busted (as I attempted to finish putting all these eight foot tall cards in).
At this point, I'm ready to use them for kindling
