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Posted By: E, Daniel

Well David, thanks for the lesson on what it is to be a real collector!
I myself would never dream of telling someone the worthiness to their methods for enjoying in a child's hobby. I guess enthusiasts who collect issues for which maybe 1-3 exemplars are known are complete dufuses, for how could they truly know what makes a genuine example from such rare and scarely understood or noted issues. It might take a hundred years before they were to see or hold another copy - but you're right......the getting of extra opinons from grading companies (and my clear preferance would be SGC) precludes them from 'collector' status.
Phooey on them if they should feel more comfort from the extra knowledge of others in the industry who just may have dealt with cards most of us have never seen or held in our own paws. I mean, you just don't deserve to own an orange borders Wagner if you don't understand every intricacy of the issue and its issuance.

For me, just because wrongly identified and poorly graded cards show up exhibiting error in either knowledge, judgement, or data entra, does not the rule make that no expertise greater than our own resides at grading companies.


Daniel