1933 Goudey #3 Critz in high grade - overrated

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Posted By: cmoking

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=86843&item=5204258938&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

This card is already close to its SMR of $2750. I bid a decent amount for it, but I refuse to pay SMR. The population reports show its nothing special compared to the other cards around it, like the Vance, Schuble, and yet those cards don't get that much of a premium. Maybe this is a card that has had population report problems due to re-submissions, but I don't see it. There were two other PSA 7s in the Mastro auction (one in a single lot, and another in a multi-PSA 7 lot). This could be the same card as one of those two cards, or it could be a third card. I think the price on this card is just due to an old perception about the low supply that is no longer true (relative to other cards in the Goudey set). Thoughts?

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Posted By: dennis

IMO its OC. another case of buying the slab?

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Posted By: leon

the reasons are, in my mind, that is just crazy to pay that much for that card.....(*but I have been real crazy before too ie.. AWA Caramel)......sheesh that's a lotta dough though......Bet the lucky winner moves a half a point up on the registry

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Posted By: WP

Buy a Critz in a 6 and another common in a 7 and you get the same registry effect plus you will save some serious cash. The reason this card sells for so much is that it is listed high in the SMR.

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Posted By: dan mckee

I can tell you, directly from the horses mouth who collected Goudeys heavily as a kid in 1933, that Hugh Critz is the toughest low number in the set. Also, over the years, #52 Cohen I believe has become difficult in nice shape. Pop has always said that Critz was tough, he marks them for me on ebay now when they come up, I just delete them as there is no market for them. dan.

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Posted By: cmoking

That card is typical of a PSA 7 as far as the grade is concerned. Many PSA 7s (and SGC 84 / SGC 7s for that matter) can have centering like that. PSA 7s with perfect centering do go for more than PSA 7s that are slightlly OC though...but that's only if the bidders are bidding with an eye on the card instead of just the slab. My feeling is that this auction will go on the basis of the slab and not the card...a low grade PSA 7 due to the centering.

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Posted By: Darren J. Duet

Sell! Sell! Sell!