What's your favorite graded "Authentic/Altered" card you have?

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

This thread has some serious eye candy! Thanks for sharing them. There have been times when I saw cards in A holders and wanted to pull the trigger. Is it safe to say most collectors have them because 1. The card is in some way exceptionally rare or scarce and you were grateful to even find the A? 2. The card is, relative to your purchasing power, otherwise unobtainable? (this of course would vary for each collector) 3. For a given card, you would rather have an A card than something that is really creased up or in some way damaged? Sometimes I think if a card has been damaged by a collector years ago but the particular damage still merits a numeric grade, is that any worse than a collector over the years doing something to his card that merits it landing in an A holder? As long as there was no intent to deceive, I might not care, especially if it was a rare/expensive card that I otherwise couldn't have or otherwise couldn't have such a nice copy. Once it's in the A holder, everyone knows and the risk of deception is past.

Anyway, really neat stuff! I love seeing what you all have in your collections.

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[Sean]

Originally Posted by vintagebaseballcardguy

This thread has some serious eye candy! Thanks for sharing them. There have been times when I saw cards in A holders and wanted to pull the trigger. Is it safe to say most collectors have them because 1. The card is in some way exceptionally rare or scarce and you were grateful to even find the A? 2. The card is, relative to your purchasing power, otherwise unobtainable? (this of course would vary for each collector) 3. For a given card, you would rather have an A card than something that is really creased up or in some way damaged? Sometimes I think if a card has been damaged by a collector years ago but the particular damage still merits a numeric grade, is that any worse than a collector over the years doing something to his card that merits it landing in an A holder? As long as there was no intent to deceive, I might not care, especially if it was a rare/expensive card that I otherwise couldn't have or otherwise couldn't have such a nice copy. Once it's in the A holder, everyone knows and the risk of deception is past.

Anyway, really neat stuff! I love seeing what you all have in your collections.

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Also 4- This particular card (or back) doesn't come in any other grade besides Authentic.

[Luke]

Some of my favorites:

[Sean]

Hi Luke, where did you get that Collins blank? I was the underbidder on one just like that one on eBay six years ago.

[tedzan]

WHOOPS !

How could I forget this one.

Anyway, I traded it to Chris and Kristin Buckler. The quintessential Louisville collectors.






TED Z

T206 Reference
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[Rhotchkiss]

Wow Luke, that is one heck a grouping. Very nice. Let me know if you ever want to sell or trade the Collins blank back; I know someone naked Ryan who would be interested.

[Luke]

Alright, alright, keep your clothes on Ryan! Haha, thanks for the kind words. You will be the first to hear about if I decide to part with Collins.

Sean, I got it from one of the major AHs about 3 years ago. There are two copies of Collins BB that I'm aware of. The other one has bigger, somewhat jagged borders and has been shown on this site a decent amount of times. I bet someone on here owns it.

[ajquigs]

My two favorites

[Kenny Cole]

E107 Long