Current state of the hobby-Vintage Cards

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Originally Posted by bk400

+1. Anecdotally, this is what I've found as well as I've tried to complete a couple of post-war vintage HOF player sets. Spreads are widening on prices of well-centered, strong eye appeal cards graded 2-4, versus lower quality cards of the same grade.

I agree. Pop counts are pretty high these days for most post-war vintage, even at investor grades PSA 6+. Eye appeal (and its surrogate, centering) is playing a greater role as people seek to differentiate their PSA 7 from the other 500 PSA 7s graded. Dead centered vintage is still a rarity (I venture to guess that well less than 4% of vintage is dead centered) and is commanding higher and higher premiums (30%-100% from my observations) over off centered cards of the same grade.