1865 Brooklyn Atlantics CDV for sale

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

I don't like to get caught up in all of the semantics of what determines what is and isn't a card?! A disc...is not a card...a stamp...is not a card...but...a CDV...whether it was made for the team/team members...and has a studio name attached...in my opinion...is a card. Remember guys...this is from a time period before there were any baseball "cards"...there was no definition! For whatever worth a "definition" really is anyway?!

You just hit the nail on the head - these were 'before' baseball cards as we know them. I'm not going to Olberman you, but I don't think there should be an assumption that before there were modern 'baseball cards, that there had to be something else that we will now call 'baseball cards'. Just as, before baseball was created, we wouldn't be calling other games 'baseball', simply because there wasn't yet a game 'baseball' to affix that label to.

But, as you say, it's all semantics. Barry stated that if something gets to be called a 'baseball card', that it will be worth more. If that's true, I guess I would prefer that you all think that all of my mounted baseball-related photos are baseball cards, even if I don't think so. But I don't really believe that if Olberman declared certain cdv's to no longer be baseball cards, and his word was acknowledged by all of us as an utterance from the true authoritative voice of our hobby king, that the value of such cards would go down.

As long as SGC is willing to put these items in slabs, they will maintain their value. The slab gives them their credibility and additional value - if you don't believe me, look at the prices of baseball-related cdv's prior to SGC's first encapsulation of such items, and their values immediately after. It was a pretty phenomenal increase.