Exhibits - why relatively cheap ?

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Posted By: Scott

I started collecting exhibits about 2 years ago. I really like the big photos on the cards and felt they were a good value for the money. As has been mentioned finding the 1921-1938 cards are a lot harder than the 1939-1966 versions.

As far as PSA pop reports, when I started collecting them there had only been 250ish 1947-66 exhibits graded, two years later they are now at 2500+. Thats a huge amount in the last two years. Back then NM raw singles were easy to pick up in the $3-5 range, these days seems like $10 is about the norm and expect a lot more competition for them. Only in the last year have I seen some of the high grade PSA 8+ non hofer singles selling in the $100 range, I have a feeling at these dollars we will see a lot more graded. I have done very well selling my PSA 5-7 duds on ebay. I guess I feel like there is a lot more exhibits sets raw just waiting for the right price to come to market.

I was one of the underbidders on the Saluatition Gerhig, I was really surprised it ended up going for $988 in that condition. I bid on a couple of the other saluatitions but didnt have much luck.

Scott