Star Basketball sets to avoid master list

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

We have a ton of Star in our upcoming auction with many keys just graded by Beckett in the last month. They no longer grade ANY "Best of" sets.

[Econteachert205]

Scott, Thank you for the information. Just curious, does that include the very rare best of the old yellow five card set? Those have not been subject to controversy or reprint and should still be good for grading in my opinion.


Looking forward to the auction.

Dennis.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

What Beckett told me was that the company that bought Star's assets in bankruptcy reissued all of the Best cards. They didn't enumerate any exceptions to me, but maybe the person speaking to me didn't have all the information.

We will be selling Best of the old and Best of the new. This collection had nearly every Star Co. Card ever printed and they were collected by the son of a dealer as they came out so fairly impeccable provenance. Also if you're into esoteric basketball, supposedly there's no way to differentiate between 1976 and 1977 Fleer stickers, however again this collection was put together year by year at the time cards and stickers were issued, so while there's no way of "proving" it we have two separate sets of stickers actually labeled with the appropriate year. Just interesting, not incredibly valuable.

[Jewish-collector]

I agree with all of you in the thread, but I just don't like using the term "garbage". I prefer the terms "reprints" or "non-authentic" or "custom" etc,... I collect a lot of reprints of this type as I can't afford the authentic ones.

[Econteachert205]

My calling them that is in reference to the purposeful deception sellers use as well as the original deception with shop at home. Outside of that I have no issues with the cards themselves and will refer to them as reprints, fakes or fantasy issues in The future to more accurately label the cards being discussed.

[Oscar_Stanage]

Is this part of the Jordan subset to avoid raw?

[Econteachert205]

Hi, yes it is. The card could very well be good, but just know that there were more of these produced and sold later and there are a significant amount of reprints. If the seller can guarantee it grades or offer refunds it might be worth taking a shot if the price is right, but it is a risk.

Originally Posted by Wid_Conroy

Is this part of the Jordan subset to avoid raw?