topic: why are exhibits so underrated as a set?

[Harliduck]

From someone who considered starting to collect them, but ultimately chose not too...

I love the pictures, love the B&W...and the size doesn't bother me at all. I put a set of 1953-55 Dormands together. That set was a stretch, but it did have clear boundaries. They were numbered, had a clear date range, and a very few easy to get variations that were clearly defined. When considering to next move to exhibits...the date range was too wide, they are not numbered (blank backed), WAY too many variations to chase...without jumping in it felt like herding cats from the onset. I moved on. Just my thoughts.

I would however like to, and will, own a few of the HOFer's one day. They are beautiful. Just didn't appeal to me as a "set" collector.

[tobychin]

I have fond memories of the exhibits at the county fair. I discovered them in 1958 around the same time I discovered topps cards. I have always loved them.

[oldjudge]

I think Exhibits are the ultimate autograph cards--big enough so the signature can also be big. The Satchel Paige in REA shows that prices are inching up, albeit at a slow pace. I much prefer a signed exhibit to a signed Topps issue.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

I think Exhibits are the ultimate autograph cards--big enough so the signature can also be big. The Satchel Paige in REA shows that prices are inching up, albeit at a slow pace. I much prefer a signed exhibit to a signed Topps issue.

I would easily rather have a signature on an Exhibit than a Topps issue.

As has probably been mentioned, over-sized cards, often, don't get the respect they should.

[cubman1941]

I also like the Exhibit's and would like to throw my 2 cents in. Growing up as a kid in northern Wisconsin in the 50's and never getting to any beach or big city, I never heard of Exhibit cards. We went fishing to resorts but there were never any machines to get Exhibits from. Thus, it wasn't until I settled down in the 70's and got into collecting that I found out about them. So while I had cards for the 50's I didn't have any Exhibits. I now have quite a few and my experience has been they are hard to trade for all the reasons stated here. I did manage to pick up this machine a while back. I can't get it to work right but I enjoyed getting it to add to my collection of baseball "stuff".