My first ever graded cards in the mail!

[Mark70Z]

Love the Brooksie cards; I'm a BIG Brooks fan! Thanks so much for sharing pictures of your cards. I've never submitted any cards, to any service, so possibly in the future may do so.

Keep sharing...

[Paul S]

It's interesting (to me, anyway). I'm an old geezer whose cards have remained raw. However, in the past 12 months or so I've begun to sell some, either on the BST here or through an auction house. Now, cards I've owned since the 60s -- and that would include deadball through postwar vintage -- when consigning, usually get graded by the AH. I never felt one way or the other on the issue as I understand both sides of the story: my cards stay raw until up for sale. But I do have to say I get a participatory thrill waiting to see how the cards will shake out with a TPG. And I am so personally awful at grading, especially my own stuff. For instance, for 45 years I had a T206 Cobb bat on. It came back on the low end of the "scale". It turns it had a small pinhole, which I never noticed! That was a big downer but I was laughing about it a minute later because other stuff came back better than I expected. So, it's a carpshoot (sic, Hi Adrian). I will never see these cards in my own hand inside a holder. That's okay, it's a mindset.

Here's an old and smallish scan for you Brooksie lovers. Don't hate me when I say that a few years ago I sold it raw, with a bunch of other stuff, to a brick-and-mortar. Will never do that again. I was hard up for cash (actually still am) during the holiday season. And no Photoshopping on this one.