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Posted By: Jeff Prillaman

Batch -- what's happening (Hey Martin)

The Southern Find was close to 1000 T206's in total along with about 30 Turkey Reds. The T206's were brought home from the factory and had never gone into the packs and were uncirculated. Some of the cards still had the paper shavings on them from when they were cut. I would speculate that 50 percent or more of the PSA 9's and 10's in existence came from that find. Somewhere in the basement I have a typed list of the cards in the find. It would be interesting to compare that list to what is on the PSA pop report.

Also Marco had developed a grading scale accurate to two decimal places, so cards had grades like 9.35 and 9.50. In that first SCD ad, we got all kinds of calls about crazy pricing. We went triple book on the commons and 4-5 times book on the Hof'ers. The first weekend at a show with them (a Timothy Poth show in Philly) I spent the whole weekend answering the question "Are these reprints".

Things I remember off the top of my head were the five Walter Johnsons in the find -- surprisingly there are exactly 5 graded PSA 9. To put in persepctive (this was pregrading days) the T206 Walter Johnson portrait booked at 600 at the time - the nicest one sold for 6000. And it sold to a dealer who told me after the fact that he had a buyer for it.