How To Mess Up Some Nice T206s - 1908 Cubs Display

[Leon]

I don't remember seeing where a person ruined?, with glue, some nice looking T206s while making a display. I read the description as it looked neat but then got to the part about a drop of glue . Some were popped out of PSA cases. Good or bad?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1908-Chicag...Sdi:rk:62:pf:0
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[Bill77]

They used a reproduction photo why not use reprint cards as well?

[ullmandds]

a "professional" job would have been archival matting with cutouts for each card...and would have been quite expensive. This job was poorly done...destroyed the value of the cards...and doesn't even look good...in my humble opinion!

[Leon]

I know. I kind of like the display but when I read the description I am like WTF....

Originally Posted by Bill77

They used a reproduction photo why not use reprint cards as well?

[timzcardz]

Originally Posted by Leon

I know. I kind of like the display but when I read the description I am like WTF....

You're kidding, right?

The cards aren't even glued on straight and evenly spaced!

[tothrk]

I voted for “it doesn’t matter they messed the cards up”. Even if the backs of the cards were ruined from being peeled out of a scrapbook or something like that, adding more glue doesn’t help. It’s like giving a drowning man a glass of water.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by tothrk

I voted for “it doesn’t matter they messed the cards up”. Even if the backs of the cards were ruined from being peeled out of a scrapbook or something like that, adding more glue doesn’t help. It’s like giving a drowning man a glass of water.

Interesting perspective. I think they might not have been ruined backs as some were cracked out of PSA cases. Maybe they were already ruined, at least hopefully they were.

[ullmandds]

i was a tad bit harsh...it DOES look kinda cool...but not terribly professional!

[tschock]

Personally, I try to keep anything in their current state as best I can. The 'do no harm' thing. But in this case, I guess it depends on the size of the 'drop' of glue. One very tiny drop that fits outside the back border of the card will probably not do any more damage to the card than already exists. One 'drop' in the middle of the card the size of a thumbtack, probably a bit overkill. It should take the very smallest amount to hold them in place until framed.

[swarmee]

His sentences about coupons and Sweet Capital lost me. Needs a history lesson.

[trdcrdkid]

None of the cards look better than about a 2, so I’m not too upset about it. Still, I agree that it’s not a professional job, and it would have been much better to do it without glue.

[gregr2]

I like the display though it sucks they ruined the cards. Don't understand why they didn't use reprints, they could have artificially aged the cards to get the same effect.

[kmac32]

There are things that places like Aarons use to stick cards that come off without ruining the paper so they would not necessarily be ruined

[Chris Counts]

I vote for No. 5: I don't like the display, and they messed the cards up. If you're going to destroy cards, at least create a good layout. The Cubs collection looks like someone spent about two minutes thinking it out.

Here's a piece I picked up a few years ago. I'm guessing someone — likely a woman — spent an entire winter hunched over a wood stove stitching this thing together. I wonder if she smoked Turkey Red cigarettes? I love how the colors are mixed up ...

[bounce]

I think the display looks nice, although I also agree if you're going to use real cards why not find a real photo?

Regarding the cards, there was a better way to do it than glue, would have required a little more work but wouldn't have been hard.

Feels lazy more than anything.

[tschock]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

i was a tad bit harsh...it DOES look kinda cool...but not terribly professional!

Agreed. I would have at least tried to align the borders a little better, regardless of size/cut/wear on the card.

I can only imagine how a double matting would have looked with the cards (expensive as ...). The top matte just showing the color/images and the bottom matte as white, to 'simulate' the actual borders.

[Yastrzemski Sports]

This is something that was clearly done by this person recently who wanted to enjoy it. Probably when the Cubs won the series. So it's been a couple of years and now they have decided they want their money back out of it. If you put glue on the cards and break them out of holders you don't get 650 for 350 worth of cards. The only way to Make some money here is to get that Zimmerman card signed.
Sorry, too soon?

[Leon]

It is interesting that the top 3 choices were almost equal.

I think having all of the cards signed and authenticated would be better. Then the slabs could get glued on with the cards in them thereby saving the cards from disaster!!

Originally Posted by Yastrzemski Sports

This is something that was clearly done by this person recently who wanted to enjoy it. Probably when the Cubs won the series. So it's been a couple of years and now they have decided they want their money back out of it. If you put glue on the cards and break them out of holders you don't get 650 for 350 worth of cards. The only way to Make some money here is to get that Zimmerman card signed.
Sorry, too soon?

[CobbSpikedMe]

I might be in the minority but I don't really like the display at all. I just don't think the composition is appealing the way the photo is on the top with the cards so close together right beneath it. I think they should've been spaced further apart and maybe go around the photo.

Even if I wasn't a collector and I was just putting this together to resell it, I wouldn't have glued the cards to the background. I would have researched different ways to adhere them and done something different. And just because the cards are low grade already doesn't mean they weren't ruined further by using glue. All around I don't like the whole thing.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Leon

It is interesting that the top 3 choices were almost equal.

I think having all of the cards signed and authenticated would be better. Then the slabs could get glued on with the cards in them thereby saving the cards from disaster!!

Just goes to show beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

[mrvster]

what backs???? some bl 460's????????

[Tao_Moko]

I don't think it would have looked any better to have 110 year old paper tobacco ads in cheap chinese plastic with laser labels and shiny holograms and 1/2" weird font numbers in the corner displayed with a team photo. In the eye of the beholder I guess. To prove that point - this painting sold for $75 million a few years ago: