Questions about selling a postwar collection

[capricesquad]

I got the ship notice from PSA yesterday and should have the cards in hand soon to look them over.

Also my dad found a little notebook he had as a kid


Inside was a bunch of baseball player transfers



and Team transfers




and Player stickers





and these team pennants





Then the book is lists of old music he made tapes of

The book is probably 100 full pages of baseball stickers which is I'm sure not worth much as it's been stuck to paper. But really neat because my dad put it together and made notes about the teams and the players.

[skil55voy]

If you decide on prices for the Post Cereal and Jello cards I would be very interested in purchasing. Also, your Dad's book with the stickers and rub offs in it is awesome. I hope you hang on to it.

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by capricesquad

I got the ship notice from PSA yesterday and should have the cards in hand soon to look them over.

Also my dad found a little notebook he had as a kid


Inside was a bunch of baseball player transfers



and Team transfers




and Player stickers





and these team pennants





Then the book is lists of old music he made tapes of

The book is probably 100 full pages of baseball stickers which is I'm sure not worth much as it's been stuck to paper. But really neat because my dad put it together and made notes about the teams and the players.

That is very cool. So great your dad saved stuff like that as well as all cards.

[gnpaden]

um.....this is awesome!!!! I love seeing stuff like this. My Dad and I collected cards together as I was growing up and he gave me his entire collection as well. I would be interested in buying some cards once you decide to sell.

[capricesquad]

I was out of town for a few weeks but realized I had enough time to get a submission together and postmarked today to get the 5.75 price.

In an effort to get better cards I flipped through the 1962 cards I set aside as good and took out ones that were nicely centered and had good eye appeal. I ended up with 140 or so that I then resorted and picked my favorites out of to get a submission of 25 cards. Not scientific but each sort I would find little things off about cards once they were only mixed in with sharp well centered examples.

I snapped some quick pics of what I sent off, hopefully these grade a bit better as they were picked by condition and not player fame. Sorry about the glare, I put them on the patio for better lighting but the sun doesn't play nice with cards savers.


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[brob28]

They look nice, good luck!

[capricesquad]

So PSA finally checked in my submission that was shipped on feb 29 so now the 50 day wait for grades actually started. In the mean time I was hoping to look into his post and jello cards.

I started by putting all his 1963 bazooka all time greats into card savers.

Then I checked out a binder that had this.


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It had a letter addressed to his aunt at his childhood home in South Chicago stuck inside as a bookmark.


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Back side has I think Czech writing but no idea what it says


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My dad was born in 1947 but my grandpa was born in 1917 so maybe the book was a handme down?

Anyways the reason I included the letter is because my dad was born on the south side of chicago and lived there til my grandparents bought a farm in Aurora when he was six. As a result he is a White Sox fan.

He collected a bunch of cards but he made binders of just White Sox Players and occasional Cubs players without much organization.

So you have pages like this

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In the same book as pages like this

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which explain some holes in the 1962 set that was in the boxes


He also like to connect to kids through baseball when he was a principal and he would organize fieldtrips and special days like Kite Day and Baseball day for the whole school. I have a feeling this was sent to him in that capacity but he thought it was neat and laminated and saved it.


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On to the post cards, they are a bit confusing so I decided to put everything in card savers so I can handle them to figure out what he has.



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He had a pretty steady hand as a kid because most of the cards are very nicely cut. But on many he cut along the border rather than around it so I'm not sure how something like this grades exactly. I'll probably send in a few stars and see how they come back. I asked him how he cut them so well and he said he borrowed Grandma's sewing scissors. Once she found out and calmed down, she made him buy her a new pair and he kept the old ones to cut out cards with.


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I filled 2 card saver boxes and ran out of card savers with a small pile of 1962 post yet to go.

I did get a chance to look everything over. He has a bunch of 1962 Post, many 1963 post, and smatterings of 1961 post and 1963 jello. Naturally being from the Chicagoland area he has 10 of the rare 1962 test market Jello cards as well.


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[irv]

Originally Posted by capricesquad

So PSA finally checked in my submission that was shipped on feb 29 so now the 50 day wait for grades actually started. In the mean time I was hoping to look into his post and jello cards.

I started by putting all his 1963 bazooka all time greats into card savers.

Then I checked out a binder that had this.

Wow, your collection just keeps getting better and better all the time!

Must be pretty exciting going through all his old collection.

Enjoy!