"From CYoung to....Sayonara"....Craig Nettles (ca 1979)

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Posted By: Dylan

Barry, first off almost all my pre world war I cards are in screwdown holders or graded by sgc/psa. :)And to address what you said, I dont think that it has anything to do with the display aspect of the slabs but everything to do with paying money to have a 3rd party assign a grade. This is what gets raw card enthusiasts worked up. If you were to pay a company a buck or two to just encapsulate a card, no grade, not even an assesment of authenticity, purely to protect the card from damage, I dont think any of the raw card collectors could complain about that. Most collectors like to maximize the value of their collection regardless of why they collect. Sometimes it may be in your better interest to send in your collection of cards in for grading. For others it may be better to take that money and buy more cards with it. It all depends on what your collection consists of. You can't blame anyone for trying to maximize the value of their collection, which is what most of us are trying to do when making that decison. So live and let live, everyone is playing their own hand the best they can.