Increase in low grade cards being graded

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Leon

Does anyone else like seeing cards NOT through plastic? (almost all of my higher end items are slabbed).

For your cards and my autographs, I like to know there is nothing impeding me from touching the physical item. Now, when value dictates, I will be protecting items with some sort of plastic, but the piece will always be removable.

Besides being bulky, clunky, costing money, etc., slabs permanently remove the tactile and olfactory aspects of collecting. That's two of the three senses that we regularly employ with our collectibles. I'm sure some folks have tasted their cards , and only pray that, aside from 1989 Topps Talking Baseball and the like, nobody has heard their cards speak to them. (And it's safe to admit that you could pass a blindfold test to discern a '89 UD from a 52T from a T206 based purely on scent.)