Red Hindu

[joshleon]

Hi everyone,

First want to introduce myself. What do people say "long time lurker, first time poster"? I am one of these guys who was a kid in the 80s collecting cards and sort of grown up now. As a kid I loved the vintage stuff and 20 years ago sold everything I had post 1980. My favorite set was the t206.

Anyway, I have always known what my good cards are and went about making an XL recently for insurance purposes. Most of my premium cards are in cases and I have pics of most of them. However, I recalled an old album of cards I kept at my folks house and wondered what I had put in there. I checked it out this weekend when I was at my parents' house and found some cool stuff. I guess I hadn't thought much about a poor Cy Young portrait because I paid less than 10 bucks for it (for example).

What really caught my eye was a Hal Chase Throwing Dark Cap because it has a Hindu Red back. Mind you, it's in pretty bad shape. Probably not above a PSA 1 but no paper loss and very presentable. However, PSA has no graded examples of this card that I could find. This forum was the only place where I could find a decent discussion of these backs and it looks like it is confirmed to exist. SGC has one in their pop report at a 1.5.

My question is: how do I value this card given that I cannot find a recorded sale of it? I get there are probably low-pop cards for lots of front/back combos but Hindu-Red seems like kind of a special case?

Hope this wasn't "TLDR" as I wanted to introduce myself as well as ask my question. You all have some magnificent cards and know so much. This is the place I want to be!