how bad is it to have a pin hole?

[bnorth]

I have a few T210's with this cool Y shaped hole punch and I like them. I think it adds character.

[lug-nut]

that is a different hole ben, some holes do add character. and i think the jackson presents well with the minor creases and that hole. being an affordable graded jackson i think i'd be happy to add it to my lower-budget collection

[conor912]

Ask 100 different guys and get 100 different answers....I avoid them on smaller cards but don't mind them on bigger issues (Cabinet cards, Goudey Premiums, etc) because those were more meant for display, hence why people tacked them to walls.

I think most collectors will agree that if there is a particular scarce item they have been looking for for a long time, they will gladly take one with a pinhole as opposed to not owning one at all.

Edited to add: in the case of the Jackson, I think all you need to ask yourself is "Will I ever be able/willing to spend the money on one WITHOUT a pinhole?" If the answer is yes, then wait....a couple of those show up every year.

[freakhappy]

I think that if you like it, that's all that matters. Some cards don't look good with them, some do. On very expensive cards, that's all some people can afford, so you have no choice but to grab one with a hole if you want to obtain one. Personally, I have never bought a card that expensive before, but if I did, I would have no problem whatsoever purchasing one with a pinhole.

[yanksfan09]

I couldn't have been happier to add this one with multiple tiny pin holes in it. They let me afford one of my dream cards, and it still presents well to me!

[Luke]

I collect low-grade cards with nice eye appeal because they fit my budget. I love pin holes because they reduce a card's value much more than they reduce its appearance. Here are two of my favorite t206s:

[Bicem]

sweet Jax! condition doesn't matter.

[ullmandds]

I don't mind having these in my collection!

[frankbmd]

Yikes!!!! You can actually see through these cards.

Then again a small pinhole would be ideal for viewing a solar eclipse.

[kamikidEFFL]

As for pinholes or hole punches I really don't care for them. I will on the other hand buy a card if the front is presentable and has lil paper loss on the back. Corners and creases don't bother me as well as long as it doesn't take away from the card. But hey it would all depend if a pinhole that real small get me a Wagner or Jackson for a lot less than one without then hey I think I could live with it.

[Paul S]

Large pinholes allowed me to afford a large lot of e90-1s (and an e93 Wagz) when I was a kid. Here are a few of them. Some have since been sold.

[calvindog]

Pinholes are all relative. Some don't bother me at all.

[dabigyankeeman]

I totally love an expensive card with a pinhole, particularly a nice small crisp one. Many times its the only defect on a really nice card, and it brings the price of the card WAY down.

As to cards with punch-holes, i have a couple, and while i am not crazy about punch-holes, they can be not too bad looking. What i do is scan the card in and print it out so that i have a duplicate of the exact color, and then put pieces of that color behind the card in my plastic sheet. This makes the punch-holes stand out way less.

[lug-nut]

Paul, some of those holes look like gun shot wounds, but your right about price reduction. The e90-1 Jackson I posted went for $6k with the hole and a couple light creases...how much without just the hole in that condition, maybe $9-10k??? I bid on it a couple of times

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by lug-nut

Paul, some of those holes look like gun shot wounds, but your right about price reduction. The e90-1 Jackson I posted went for $6k with the hole and a couple light creases...how much without just the hole in that condition, maybe $9-10k??? I bid on it a couple of times

Mark, I've always held small caliber gunshot wounds into consideration -- it's how to account for the burn marks. However, there are no pinholes for which they would have been mounted. And the Cobb, with all the paper loss surrounding the hole it looks like it was yanked off something

[Leon]

I lean to the camp of preferring not having a hole or pinhole, if possible. And I will wait and/or pay substantially more for one without those issues. On very rare cards, I take what I can first and worry later . On most of the cards shown in this thread, with small pinholes, I barely see the holes at all. Some really great looking cards there...

[DHogan]

I'm not sure where I saw someone say it. It might have been on this forum. They said "I'd rather have a hole in some of my cards. Than a hole in my collection." Me too !

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by DHogan

I'm not sure where I saw someone say it. It might have been on this forum. They said "I'd rather have a hole in some of my cards. Than a hole in my collection." Me too !

I used to disagree with this statement...but when I realized how tough some cards that I wanted are...I changed my tune! You can aleways upgrade if a better one comes along!

[bn2cardz]

No longer owned by me, but if I could get all my cards like this one with a minimal hole in them I would take them everytime. I forgot this card had a hole when I sent it off to grading and was surprised until I got it back and remembered the hole.