When top condition is not a good thing?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

Guys...I remember when Hager put out his book...and burst onto the card scene...he kinda introduced these square colgans to the hobby...as "proofs"...and I remember a fair # of high grade ones were accugrade entombed.

I don't follow or care much about any colgans issue...just never cared for them. I would presume there are a lot more high grade roundies because there are a much larger # of roundies compared to squares.

I'm just trying to make a point that when a lot of high grade cards of a given issue seem surface....canting the overall population of an issue to a dramatically higher grade...they become less desirable?!

I don't think this will be the case so much w/e98 as the demand is so high?!

I just think in the future these high grade e98's will be popping up on a regular basis...and will become common...and pedestrian...and less desirable!

I wonder if the Accugrade ones got busted out and were put into lower grade holders from other companies? But that wasn't the main point of your thread.

As I stated in another thread, this grouping seems sort of like the E92 Nadja St.Louis player cards but on a larger scale. Those E92s are always being sold and they command much less than most other caramel cards in the same grade. We have all seen them...and many of us own one or some.

[ullmandds]

It is definitely kind of similar to the E 92 situation... but very different in that there are so many different cards in such high numbers.

[Jaybird]

Certainly something to be said for rarity or perceived rarity. I think we all cherish those things in our collection that there are just one of or a few of. The fact that a bunch of high grade E98s are out there can't help prices. But, they are great cards and the demand should be pretty high for them. I expect they will get sucked up pretty darn quick.

[goudeygold]

The E105 find wasn't even close to the scope of the E98 blow out find. While maybe 10-15% of the E105 set is fairly available, the vast majority of the set is simply not available with POPs under 5 examples per card. The total 50 card set POP is ~375, take out the most common 8 and you are down near 200 total examples for the remaining 42 cards.

Barely 10% of the entire E105 POP report between SGC and PSA is higher than a EX-5. Virtually all of these are limited to Knight and Bescher.

There are finds... and then there are Black Swamp finds.