We don't need no stinkin' slabs!!!

[ALR-bishop]

I still fondly remember the bubblegum smell when openings packs and the light gum residue on those cards. I have several gum stained cards in my sets. I like having them. I collected by packs from 1957 through 1962. I then started buying cards by full series from the Card Collectors Company in NY. Loved getting those packages, but no more gum residue

[brob28]

I can still remember the distinctive aroma of gum when opening wax packs back in the mid/late seventies. After about 1979 I bought all cellos or full sets. Every once in a while I'll see a card from those times and instantly remember that smell and I'm 9 years old again on my family's porch with my shoebox of cards.

[brightair]

I collected cards as a kid in the '50s and still enjoy gum and wax stains, edge wear, creases and the smell of old cards.
Here is one thing I don't get about slabbed cards...
I was at the Shriner's show yesterday and saw a box of slabbed cards for sale at $1.25 apiece. I didn't look at them, I assume they are all UV, but later I wondered how anyone can sell slabbed cards so cheap?
Doesn't it cost way more than that to get a card slabbed (never done it myself, don't collect them)?
And why would anyone slab a modern card that isn't even worth the cost of grading?
To each his own, I agree, just need someone to explain the logic behind this to me.
Richard D

[BruceinGa]

Originally Posted by brightair

Doesn't it cost way more than that to get a card slabbed (never done it myself, don't collect them)?

Minimum of $10 imo.

Originally Posted by brightair

And why would anyone slab a modern card that isn't even worth the cost of grading?

Maybe thinking it would be a 10?

Originally Posted by brightair

To each his own, I agree, just need someone to explain the logic behind this to me.

I can't explain that!

[BruceinGa]

Maybe it's my ocd but I'm afraid of damaging anything I touch. When I borrow something I believe in returning it in better condition than when I received it. My magazine and books at home are kept in a place that protect them, (kind of).
It makes me sick to see the condition of the 1983 cards that my sons and I collected.
I enjoy looking at a nice card in a slab or top loader but not one mistreated.
My wife says that I need help . I would tend to agree with her.

[Volod]

If one of the slabbing companies could come up with a grading criterion for bubblegum dust and aroma, I would pay big bucks for a 1953 Bowman Color card with strong dusting, just so that I could crack it open and inhale my way back to the age of eight. I know, now the thread is being reduced to goofiness, but I am halfway serious about that.

[Bestdj777]

Regardless of your opinion on grading, I think we can all agree that this one needs to remain safely sealed in its slab: