What's your favorite graded "Authentic/Altered" card you have?

[mouschi]

I'm looking at some cards where some horrendous cards that are beat to death are much less appealing to look at than their altered counterparts. I figured it'd be fun to show your favorite altered cards here. What do you have that you love?

[CobbSpikedMe]

Always love posting this beauty from Lionel Carter's old collection.


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[Rhotchkiss]

Given how rare these are, I was happy to get this blue crofts Cobb in any condition

[ValKehl]

A couple of scarcities. The E222 would be an "A" if it were graded.

[topcat61]

Originally Posted by CobbSpikedMe

Always love posting this beauty from Lionel Carter's old collection.


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I'm pretty shocked that this card was Lionel Carter's. He was such a notorious condition freak that anything like this probably came from Buck Barker, Charles Bray or Jefferson Burdick very early on, say just before WWII or just right after.

I too own a card from Carter -a M101 Deal with a nice crease going across. It's one of my favorite cards because of who owned it. Carter was a huge influence on me as a writer.

[CobbSpikedMe]

Originally Posted by topcat61

I'm pretty shocked that this card was Lionel Carter's. He was such a notorious condition freak that anything like this probably came from Buck Barker, Charles Bray or Jefferson Burdick very early on, say just before WWII or just right after.

I too own a card from Carter -a M101 Deal with a nice crease going across. It's one of my favorite cards because of who owned it. Carter was a huge influence on me as a writer.

I was surprised it was Lionel's card as well and that's one of the reasons I love it so much. To think it came from Barker, Bray or Burdick is pretty cool too.

[realbigfatdog]

Love it!

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[charlietheexterminator]

My Favorite

[frohme]

Shown before - scans don't do this one justice. It has an inner light.

[ullmandds]

Its a toss up for me...these!!

[VintageBen]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

Its a toss up for me...these!!

wowsers

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

This thread has some serious eye candy! Thanks for sharing them. There have been times when I saw cards in A holders and wanted to pull the trigger. Is it safe to say most collectors have them because 1. The card is in some way exceptionally rare or scarce and you were grateful to even find the A? 2. The card is, relative to your purchasing power, otherwise unobtainable? (this of course would vary for each collector) 3. For a given card, you would rather have an A card than something that is really creased up or in some way damaged? Sometimes I think if a card has been damaged by a collector years ago but the particular damage still merits a numeric grade, is that any worse than a collector over the years doing something to his card that merits it landing in an A holder? As long as there was no intent to deceive, I might not care, especially if it was a rare/expensive card that I otherwise couldn't have or otherwise couldn't have such a nice copy. Once it's in the A holder, everyone knows and the risk of deception is past.

Anyway, really neat stuff! I love seeing what you all have in your collections.

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[Sean]

Originally Posted by vintagebaseballcardguy

This thread has some serious eye candy! Thanks for sharing them. There have been times when I saw cards in A holders and wanted to pull the trigger. Is it safe to say most collectors have them because 1. The card is in some way exceptionally rare or scarce and you were grateful to even find the A? 2. The card is, relative to your purchasing power, otherwise unobtainable? (this of course would vary for each collector) 3. For a given card, you would rather have an A card than something that is really creased up or in some way damaged? Sometimes I think if a card has been damaged by a collector years ago but the particular damage still merits a numeric grade, is that any worse than a collector over the years doing something to his card that merits it landing in an A holder? As long as there was no intent to deceive, I might not care, especially if it was a rare/expensive card that I otherwise couldn't have or otherwise couldn't have such a nice copy. Once it's in the A holder, everyone knows and the risk of deception is past.

Anyway, really neat stuff! I love seeing what you all have in your collections.

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Also 4- This particular card (or back) doesn't come in any other grade besides Authentic.

[Luke]

Some of my favorites:

[Sean]

Hi Luke, where did you get that Collins blank? I was the underbidder on one just like that one on eBay six years ago.

[tedzan]

WHOOPS !

How could I forget this one.

Anyway, I traded it to Chris and Kristin Buckler. The quintessential Louisville collectors.






TED Z

T206 Reference
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[Woundedduck]

Here's my additions

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[Jerry G]

Happy with this Cobbie.

[JeremyW]

That T-206 Evers is really well loved.

[68Hawk]

[JollyElm]

1954 has been beddy, beddy bad to me...

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Guess I have to shine a CSI black light on these guys to see what's what.

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

1954 has been beddy, beddy bad to me...

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Guess I have to shine a CSI black light on these guys to see what's what.

..the colors on the Mays might be too good to be true ?

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[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

..the colors on the Mays might be too good to be true ?
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I gotta be honest, it's a puzzler. Bought both (ungraded) a million years ago, way before grading was anything, and still can't for the life of me see what the actual issues are. Had no idea anything was wrong (besides the obvious) with either card. So frustrating.

[bobbyw8469]

Darren, the Ted Williams looks like what could be an eraser mark on the front. That could be why that one got the "A" grade. But I'm the world's worst. That's why I send all my stuff to PSA.

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

Darren, the Ted Williams looks like what could be an eraser mark on the front. That could be why that one got the "A" grade. But I'm the world's worst. That's why I send all my stuff to PSA.

That could be the case in the upper right. It sort of looks hazy due to the cloud being there (the way the other clouds look), but it's possibly partly an erasure.