What pre-war sets have had the most cards graded by PSA?

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Posted By: JimCrandell

Without checking the pop reports(if you have access to those),name the 5 prewar(through 1941) sets in order that have had the most cards graded by PSA.

Winner gets a graded post-war card of my choice and can name a hurricane-relief charity that I will contribute $100 to.

First correct guess wins--everyone is on their honor here.

Jim

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Posted By: Josh K.

t206, 33 goudey, t205, e90-1s, old judge

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Posted By: jay behrens

t206, 33 Goudey, Diamond Stars, t205, 40PB

Jay

My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: Julie

Lil' joke?

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Posted By: Charlie O'Neal

t206, t205, cj, 33 goudy, diamond stars

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Posted By: Julie

(not joking this time)

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Posted By: tobacco-r-us

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Posted By: Shane Killian

T206, 33 Goudey, T205, 34 Goudey, 35 Diamond Stars

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Posted By: tobacco-r-us

Buy the Plastic -- Not the Card.

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Posted By: T206Collector

This post is tailor-made for the CU message boards. I've made it easy for you:

http://forums.collectors.com/categories.cfm?catid=37

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Posted By: JimCrandell

Game over--good guess Shane.

T206 46,859
33 Goudey 29,955
T205 10,802
34 Goudey 9357
35 Diamond Stars 8282

In retrospect, i should have specified whether I was adding 1934, 1935 and 1936 Diamond stars together but Shane is correct.

Shane you can e-mail me your mailing address and a hurricane relief charity of your choice and I will send you a post-war graded card.

For those of you who did not like my game at least its over quickly--and stay tuned--there will be more pre-war graded card fun.

Jim

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Posted By: David Vargha

I see that the usual suspects, instead of ignoring the thread and not posting, have shown their true colors by belittling the thread instead.

DavidVargha@hotmail.com

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Posted By: Anonymous

David,

Even an offer of $100 to charity couldn't stop them.

Jim

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Posted By: Marc S.

Jim-

Interesting results, although not altogether unsurprising.

What would be interesting to look at, I think, would be a comparison of # of SGC-graded examples versus PSA-graded examples for some of the other pre-war sets. I think money dictates PSA for the five sets you mentioned - but it seems like there are a number of other pre-war sets where there seems to be more parity in number of graded examples between PSA and SGC.

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Posted By: cmoking

Does the ranking change if it was on a per card basis?

I would imagine the 1941 Play Ball issue may creep up into the top 5.

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Posted By: FYS

Yeah, without looking, I would have also guessed 41 Playball. I personally think the 34 Goudey set is overatted and the 41 Playball is underatted.

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Posted By: Al Crisafulli

"I see that the usual suspects, instead of ignoring the thread and not posting, have shown their true colors by belittling the thread instead."

Indeed. It really is ridiculous.

-Al

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Posted By: Jim Crandell

Marc,

That would be interesting--I have never looked at the SGC pop reports--do you have to pay a fee like PSA?

Cmoking,

Yes it does. The 1940 Play Ball set has 6,981 cards graded--adjusted for size it would make the top 5. That is the next pre-war set I hope to complete in psa 8 or better.

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Posted By: Scot

Very Interesting,
Do SGC numbers compare?

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Posted By: cmoking

SGC pop reports are free and can be found at sgccard.com

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Posted By: dennis

would these #'s correspond to the sets that had the largest production?? lots of t206's and 33 goudey's seem to have been printed.it seems as if by 1934 the goudey production was slashed and slashed again in 1935.smaller sets but a lot less cards seem to be around today? anybody have any guesses on production #'s?

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Posted By: jay behrens

David, are you actually loooking to start another incident? The only person that didn't respond with an answer was Joe. Big deal. Joe is a known plasic hater, he's allowed to post his opinion too. No one else responded as such, so who are these "usual suspects" you are talking about? Don't expect a response from me either. This thread, by it's topic is dead and I won't drag out to help you start another battle. I was civil, why couldn't you be civil?

Jay

My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: tobacco-r-us

"I see that the usual suspects, instead of ignoring the thread and not posting, have shown their true colors by belittling the thread instead."
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This thread not only belittles the Vintage Baseball Card Forum, but it belittles the Vintage plastic world that goes all the way back to the late 1980's. .... we're talking vintage.

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Posted By: steve k

Those sets in the top four are certainly no surprise. And the t206 set "had to be" #1 for reasons we all know. As Jay has pointed out in other threads, there are some vintage cards rarer, and some actually much rarer than the t206 Wagner, yet the t206 Wagner is to most collectors considered the "holy grail" of card collecting. Perhaps if the story behind the Wagner card would have happened in a much less popular set, this card probably wouldn't have grown to become the most famous baseball card.

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Posted By: tobacco-r-us

I'm just trying to get your forum back on the Vintage cards track.

If someone comes on here and trys to force feed vintage plastic coffins.
I'm sorry Leon, but I'm a vintage card collector, and I'm going to say my piece.
It's an opinion, just like theirs.

Do whatever you want to do, it's your ball.

PSA Vintage Plastic - formerly known as (FKA) The Vintage Baseball Card Forum.

Go for whatever you decide for:
IT'S YOUR CHOICE!

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Posted By: leon

You are more than welcome to speak your mind as long as we understand the Forum FAQ's. I am just trying to keep a little peace and get back to talking about cards. We have had numerous threads on "plastic" the last few days but if that's what ya'll want to talk about go for it...as long as it pertains to Pre-WWII baseball cards then I can't really say anything (and as long as it doesn't get too out of control) about it. regards

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Posted By: Shane Killian

Thanks Jim. Glad i guessed correctly. Thanks for the generous donation.

Shane

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Posted By: JimB

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Posted By: Misunderestimated

Although I don't believe it is reflected in their respective pop. reports anymore, SGC started grading oversized cards (both vintage and otherwise) before PSA and for quite some time had a much higher pop # than PSA for T201, T202, Fatimas (both team and individual) as well as Exhibits..

Also: wouldn't be that surprised if the pop numbers for Old Judges weren't closer than the other major Vintage (PRE WWII) issues... I feel like I've seen more SGC graded OJs than PSA and I know that there is a lot more activity on SGC Registry for that issue than PSA. This is the only major issue I think that this is true of (wihtout checking)

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Posted By: WP

Most E card sets have more sets registered by SGC.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

The difficulty with OJs is that the grading services will generally get the player's name correct (most of the time) but they usually don't identify the pose. There may be several poses of one player but the pop reports will not accurately reflect which N172 cards have actually been graded. They can indicate how many cards of a player have been graded but they don't provide the correct year (unless it was from 1887), team or pose type (catalog number). Unless they (grading services) get one of those Brit catalogs they'll never have a chance of properly providing accurate data for OJs. Even if they did start following stricter labeling guidelines there would be so many inaccurately labeled OJs out there that the pop reports would always be a bit off.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

By the way, nice Connor OJ!