1963 Clemente. Crack open or leave it as is...?

[mickey7mantle7]

Need advice guys.


I asked about this on Blowout. Figured I'd get some older guys/vintage veterans to help me out.


Bought this from my shop today for 200. Thought I'd take a chance on it.

Came from a seller who sold a collection of Clemente cards.

Measures correctly
No crease
No print dots
Sharp corners
Not restored
Etc...

Worth more in this stupid slab or should I crack it out and keep raw?










Thanks everyone.

[lowpopper]

< 9 out of 10 PRO holders have something funky going on.

If you are going to the national, I will look at it for you.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Wasn't Gary affiliated with PRO?

[mickey7mantle7]

Originally Posted by lowpopper

< 9 out of 10 PRO holders have something funky going on.

If you are going to the national, I will look at it for you.

I'd be willing to mail it to you to look at...

[stlcardsfan]

I would crack it. Long ago I purchased a '63 Stargell RC off Ebay. It was graded by some company named CSA as a NM-MT 8 in a slab that looked eerily similar to PSA. It is a really nice card that is dead centered but I was always suspicious of it but got it for a great price so left it in there. I recently decided to crack it and submit to PSA. I measured it and it looked OK to me but I would not have been surprised if PSA rejected it. To my pleasant surprise it came back as a ExMt 6. I would do the same for yours. It is a liability being in that PRO holder.

[lowpopper]

Originally Posted by stlcardsfan

I would crack it. Long ago I purchased a '63 Stargell RC off Ebay. It was graded by some company named CSA as a NM-MT 8 in a slab that looked eerily similar to PSA. It is a really nice card that is dead centered but I was always suspicious of it but got it for a great price so left it in there. I recently decided to crack it and submit to PSA. I measured it and it looked OK to me but I would not have been surprised if PSA rejected it. To my pleasant surprise it came back as a ExMt 6. I would do the same for yours. It is a liability being in that PRO holder.

CSA is worlds better than PRO. I have cracked CSA cards
and received higher grades from all 3 companies.

PRO...not so much.

[AGuinness]

Crack it. It's probably a $200 raw card, even if it doesn't get the same grade. If you send it in to a TPG, you can set a minimum grade and if it doesn't get there, you'll get it back raw. It's a nice looking card, congrats!

[ALBB]

Id leave it,and crack it later on

[mickey7mantle7]

Thanks guys...

I left it as is and made a 20 dollar profit lol

[jchcollins]

I wouldn’t buy a card graded outside the big 3 in a shop probably.


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