Black Swamp Find? Tell me more!

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Lorewalker

The dealer that spoke to me of the back half of the find indicated there were more cards held back by the family that opted to keep them than were graded originally by Heritage. If Heritage graded 750 of them then there were more than 1,500 in all found in the home.

I am confident that cards were submitted more than once, especially the Hall of Famers. I am also certain that cards were graded by PSA and then broken out and sent to SGC when they were not happy with the grades. The more than 4,000 cards graded between both pop reports includes many BSF cards that were seen more than once. Someone posted that prior to the BSF being submitted there were roughly 627 cards in PSA's pop report. I would guess there were at least that many, if not more, in SGC's. Let's assume pre BSF there had been 1,500 cards in the combined pop reports. Another 1,500 from the find which leaves roughly 1,000 other submissions of E98s most of which I would argue are cards being resubmitted or broken out and sent to the other grading company.

Again, no idea why the choice was made to not state upfront that more than 1500 cards were found but only 750 would be coming to auction other than the family having kept that a secret from Heritage or that there was a concern it might have a negative impact on the 750 that were going to auction.

That is crazy Chase. I know we're only guessing on the number of different E98 then that really have been graded, and the reason(s) why the family kept the total number of cards in the Find a secret. Deep down I would think that at some point money had something to do with it, especially since it seems like in the end, money has something to do with pretty much just about everything. LOL

Just goes to show how you can still learn something new almost every day. So, of the 4,200 or so that are included on TPG pop reports (forget Beckett also shows 102 total graded E98s, and who knows how many may still be sitting in a GAI holder), I would hazard a guess that the actual number of different E98s that have been graded is somewhere between 3,000 to 4,000, after backing off the crossovers, re-grades, and so on, and maybe closer to the 3,000 figure at the end of the day. Sound about right to you?