New Acquisitions Thread

[Dandor]

Got the seller image of my two 1972 Dr J's. SGC is grading tough, thought that they both had a chance for a slightly better grade. Bought them raw on eBay, so just glad they measured up and weren't trimmed.

[hauntedcomputer]

Originally Posted by Dandor

Got the seller image of my two 1972 Dr J's. SGC is grading tough, thought that they both had a chance for a slightly better grade. Bought them raw on eBay, so just glad they measured up and weren't trimmed.

Very nice to get a Dr. J without the elbow dot!

[Dandor]

Originally Posted by hauntedcomputer

Very nice to get a Dr. J without the elbow dot!

Yup! Some common print defects drive me crazy. I had a PSA 9 Shaq Topps Gold rookie with the "scratch" print defect, and it drove me crazy! I kept on looking at it.

I have been getting raw cards to eventually grade when things get cheaper. For basketball I have been getting a bunch of 1996 Topps 50th. I have a PSA 9 of this card already, but if I seem them in this type of shape, I won't pass them up. These are completely undervalued IMO, condition sensitive, lower POP than Topps Chrome versions, and will never hulk.

[cardsagain74]

Just upgraded my Alcindor rookie disaster (making something better out of my Murphy's law '69 set situation) thanks to a fellow forum member who sold me this very nice 3 for a fair price:

[ronniehatesjazz]

Originally Posted by cardsagain74

Just upgraded my Alcindor rookie disaster (making something better out of my Murphy's law '69 set situation) thanks to a fellow forum member who sold me this very nice 3 for a fair price:

I saw that card and agree that it was a great price! I’m in a similar situation with the 69-70 set and have a Kareem (or Lew) that looks like it was stuck on some kids bike spokes all summer long! Very cool and underrated set though.

[cardsagain74]

Originally Posted by ronniehatesjazz

I saw that card and agree that it was a great price! I’m in a similar situation with the 69-70 set and have a Kareem (or Lew) that looks like it was stuck on some kids bike spokes all summer long! Very cool and underrated set though.

My original one is raw and badly creased. Nothing really disastrous, but most of the other HOFers in the set are fairly nice, so it was out of place.

Now I'm roped into upgrading the other low end cards in the set into somewhere in the grade 4-6 range. About two dozen of them with Havlicek and Walt Frazier being the only big ones. The cards are so fragile that I'm surprised many survived in nice shape

[Exhibitman]

Nice one, Tyler.