What percentage of T206 SGC 80/PSA 6 and above and rare backs are slabbed?

[llafoe]

In your opinion, what percentage of T206 SGC 80/PSA 6 and above and rare backs are slabbed?

When looking on eBay, I see a lot of raw cards. However, I rarely see a raw card that would grade higher than a SGC 50/PSA 4. Does that mean most of the SGC80/PSA 6 cards are already slabbed in plastic?

I assume most of the rare backs are slabbed... simply for authentication purposes?

[t206hound]

Originally Posted by llafoe

In your opinion, what percentage of T206 SGC 80/PSA 6 and above and rare backs are slabbed?

When looking on eBay, I see a lot of raw cards. However, I rarely see a raw card that would grade higher than a SGC 50/PSA 4. Does that mean most of the SGC80/PSA 6 cards are already slabbed in plastic?

I assume most of the rare backs are slabbed... simply for authentication purposes?

This year on eBay I've picked up two raw T206s that graded 70, and one that graded 80.

--edited to include; each of them was purchased for under $30

[Cardboard Junkie]

I have over 1000 that are raw and would be in the ex to ex+ range. I also have dozens of rare backs ungraded. I also know of 3 major collections that are all raw. dave. ps I wonder about the large collections like Burdicks that are pasted in albums.....what backs are there?

[sreader3]

I'd say that 70-80% of T206 cards that would grade PSA 6/SGC 80 or higher are now in slabs. Can I back this up with hard evidence? No. It's based on the fact that the vast majority (> 95%) of the raw cards that I now see on eBay are VG-EX or worse (or trimmed). That wasn't the case 8-10 years ago, when you could at least somewhat regularly find EX or better groups of raw T206s fresh to the hobby.

In terms of rare backs, it depends on what you mean by "rare."

[Peter_Spaeth]

An interesting corollary question is what percentage of cards grading 6 and above have not been improved in some way.

[philliesphan]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

An interesting corollary question is what percentage of cards grading 6 and above have not been improved in some way.

But it's like proving a negative. There's no possible way to answer that question.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by llafoe

In your opinion, what percentage of T206 SGC 80/PSA 6 and above and rare backs are slabbed?

Taken literally, the 1st part of the question is a trick. 100% of the T206 SGC 80/PSA 6 and above cards are slabbed--otherwise they don't have an SGC or PSA grade assigned to them.

As for how many unslabbed cards would be considered a 6 or better by PSA or SGC, any answer can be derived only by the SWAG method because we don't know the actual manufacturing numbers of any of the cards or the number of surviving cards so we cannot fill in the denominator of the equation to derive a percentage.

[FrankWakefield]

Adam, I'd think that a few of those 80/6 cards have been busted out... although I can see that some would no longer deem them an 80 or a 6 once liberated.