Topps Dice cards

[nolemmings]

Originally Posted by raulus

No clue about the back of the sheet. Have to ask Fred if he knows.

In terms of PSA being lazy, my guess is that most auction houses would find your recommended approach to be more work than it’s worth to try to push on the precise dating of this issue. So in some ways (if my assumption is true), then you could argue the AHs exhibit similar levels of sloth. Although we could debate whose sloth is more damning!

I hope the AH in this case takes the time to correct and/or explain before the auction begins in a few weeks. I shake my head at the notion that it would be "more work than it's worth" to correct the date. A change of a word or two and a couple of sentences of explanation as part of auctioning a five or six figure item does not seem onerous. I can say with every degree of confidence that Al Crisafulli at LOTG would nail this down if it were in his auction.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

I hope the AH in this case takes the time to correct and/or explain before the auction begins in a few weeks. I shake my head at the notion that it would be "more work than it's worth" to correct the date. A change of a word or two and a couple of sentences of explanation as part of auctioning a five or six figure item does not seem onerous. I can say with every degree of confidence that Al Crisafulli at LOTG would nail this down if it were in his auction.

I definitely agree with you on all points, including Al's desire to be precise and hew to facts rather than rigid orthodoxy around dating.

I'm just not sure that I see the upside for the AH. It's not like the listing in their auction is going to change everyone's minds, so that they'll all start referring to it as a 1963 issue instead of 1961. And while it's likely that there is little or no downside, if I were the AH, it just seems like I would question whether all the fuss to attempt to make the distinction and explain the situation to everyone, in that situation whether the juice is worth the squeeze, if for no other reason than it probably feels a lot like pissing into the wind.

But if the AH wants to go there, then my hat's off to them. And if not, then I can totally understand why not.

I can tell you that I have been asked before if I would send my dice game card in to PSA to get them to re-label it as 1963 instead of 1961, and my personal conclusion to date has been that it's just not worth trying to fight that fight. Now if PSA was willing to do it for free and cover insurance going both ways, then I might consider it.

Emphasis on *might*. Even with insurance, I'm not 100% convinced that insurance would really cover me, because then you still have to haggle with someone over how much it's worth, and with stuff like this, value is always going to be a range, and probably a wide range. Plus they would undoubtedly argue for the lower end of the range. And in some ways, no amount of money (that any sane person and/or insurance company would offer me) would really compensate me for losing it, as I'm unlikely to ever be able to buy another one, and the one that I currently own is in many ways the biggest and brightest crown jewel in my collection.