Questions about selling a postwar collection

[ALR-bishop]

...on board. There is never a shortage of opinions or advice here

[capricesquad]

Thanks for the help, I asked around a few other forums and haven't really gotten much other than get them graded but with the cost of grading I would like to know much more before plunking down the cash to find out the cards aren't worth grading.

Back to my dad's collection, he grew up on a rural farm and would watch his younger siblings on the weekend when my grandparents would go shopping and they would buy him a few packs as payment. Living on a farm meant few chances to trade so he has quite a few doubles, in some cases as many as 10 of the same card. He took immaculate card of the cards but looking over them there are many that have gum stains or printing issues that were there from the factory but at the time they were penny cards so I'm assuming the factory QC was pretty terrible.


To start off he has almost a whole set of bazooka all star cards in pretty nice condition

[capricesquad]

He has quite a few Post and Jello cards


Lots of team cards


And lots of all star group cards

[capricesquad]

He has quite a few Life of Babe Ruth Cards



I started by grabbing random good players out of a random box

[capricesquad]

There were quite a few good cards so I started a fresh pile on a table. The ones in stacks are doubles of the card on top.





He ended up having quite a few Mickey Mantle cards which might be valuable depending on how they rate










I ordered some top loader cases on amazon to try to get them a bit more protected, is that ok or should I use something else?

[capricesquad]

Some more post and jello cards. He has a full card box of these.


He has a bunch of the team cards which seem to be worthwhile depending on the team



He also pulled out a binder of what I thought were called exhibitor cards but are actually called exhibit or arcade cards. I guess they aren't worth much compared to regular cards but he has 3 mantles and duplicates of other good players.

[capricesquad]

Here are some of the better players post and jello cards


Looking around on ebay for values these are the ones that seem worth possibly grading

[pawpawdiv9]

Wow a nice collection indeed. Those Micks look nice indeed. I saw a Clemente & hanks in there. And those Exhibits are nice. There a collector here thats a guru on those.
You may wanna try and get some rigid card savers..they reccommend Card Saver 1's, when you send to grade them or perhaps send them to a AH and let them send the good ones for grading?? Not sure who or if any of them do that tho.

[DBesse27]

I love exhibits cards.

[swarmee]

Another thing to note: on the Post cereal cards that are hand-cut, make sure the entire black border is visible before sending it in; otherwise, it will only get an Authentic grade rather than a number grade. If it doesn't have the border all the way around, it probably isn't worth spending the money to grade (except for the Mantle to confirm it's not counterfeit).

[mybestbretts]

Wow, what a nice collection. I would say do get most of them graded. I agree it is a great expense, but it will be worth it. Grade a few and sell them to grade more.
Good luck to you