Overwhelmed and Excited

[Timbegs]

Feel free to PM me (I have more advice) as well but this is my basic advice:

1. Ask your dad what his favorite pieces are. Treasure them forever.

2. I'm new too but the people here are great. eBay is great for a big marketplace and pricing but I'd try here to save on fees.

3. Get any good looking star card from prior to 1970 graded.

4. Enjoy them while you have them.

[swarmee]

COMC is great site to fill out your sets while selling your own cards. I only grade cards I'm going to keep in a set (for my PSA Set Registry) or I think paying the $6/card fee is going to increase the value over $20 for it to be worth it. So a raw card worth $20 is not worth grading to me unless I can then sell it for $40. High numbers that are rare may be worth sending in, as well as any Mantles just to prove they're authentic.

Get a subscription to PSA Collector's Club in order to send cards in on bulk submission specials. You could post scans of cards you think are worthy of grading, and we can tell you our guesses as to what they would get.

[ibuysportsephemera]

Originally Posted by Timbegs

1. Ask your dad what his favorite pieces are. Treasure them forever.

Amazing advice...wish I would have thought to say that. Good job Tim.

Jeff

[Exhibitman]

Grade-worthy cards: Mantle, Koufax, Aaron, Mays, Ted Williams, Musial, Jackie Robinson, any HOF RC from the 1950s-1960s. Your ability to sell will be enhanced if you grade them even in lesser grades. Beaters even sell from these guys.

Not worth grading: commons (except 52 Topps 311-407), anything not listed above in less than stellar condition (and if you have a question about it, yes, it is in less than stellar condition).

Maybe worth grading: regionals (Bell, Kahn's, Wilson, etc.). Really depends on the player and condition.

I'd consider the auctions here on the BST thread. With nice scans it is a great way to get a read on the market for a card.

You might consider consigning to an AH that handles less than minty cards. Sterling Auctions (member here) has a niche doing smaller stuff. The key is not to be forced into massive lots for dealers to buy and break; you might as well just sell to a dealer and cut out the middleman.

Some eBay seller operate on a consignment basis. Check around. PWCC and Probstein are big but there are numerous allegations of shill bidding and poor consignor treatment on this board from those two, so beware. David Bryant (davidbvintage on eBay) does consignment sales and no one has anything but good stuff to say about him, myself included. Depending on where you are, there are also likely board members near you who might be interested in buying a big lot of cards from you directly.

[jb67]

Adam,

Welcome to Net54. You have received some great advice already so I will not duplicate any that has been given. My two cents would be to sell duplicates of what you have to fund completing any sets you have. Take it slow and enjoy the journey.

[mintacular]

3. Get any good looking star card from prior to 1970 graded.

I do not agree with this, u could waste several hunded or k+sending mid grade or less stars that aren't rcs

[Timbegs]

Originally Posted by mintacular

3. Get any good looking star card from prior to 1970 graded.

I do not agree with this, u could waste several hunded or k+sending mid grade or less stars that aren't rcs

You are right - poor word choice. Grade potential 6's or better?

That's what I meant. Not the grade 'good'.

[MethodKC]

Thanks for all the information. Everyone here as been very helpful so far. I spent a more hours last night just getting my head wrapped around what is there and thinking about how I should store everything. Currently everything is in old boxes that were homemade to be like the 3k card boxes that are out there today but with too much wiggle room. Hardly anything is sleeved or in hard cases and a most of the set are in old 800 count boxes that fold in and can damage the cards. Time to go to the local store and get some supplies...



Still looking for a recommendation for a cheap scanner. Any ideas?

As I find interesting stuff I'll throw it up here. Found some uncut 65 Kahn's cards 3 are in really good shape.IMG_1729.jpg