Posted By:
Al C.risafulliOne thing to consider:
The big "boom" in sale prices for vintage cards may have caused a lot of higher-grade vintage cards to shake out into the hobby over the last 20 years or so. I know that if I was a baby boomer with a nice childhood card collection and no interest in them, and all of a sudden somebody told me in 1991 that a '52 Mantle in mint condition could sell for the equivalent of a year's salary, I would have sold all mine.
So it could be that many high-grade cards that were hidden in childhood collections started to see the light of day when they ceased being cardboard and started being cash money.
At least that's what I tell myself when I see lots of high-grade commons. If I were a card doctor, I'd be lots more interested in fixing a Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle than I would be in fixing a Joe Vosmik or Don Mossi. Yet there seem to be lots of high grade Don Mossi cards out there.
-Al