ratio of psa 8 graded t206 cards to ungraded cards that would grade 8 or better?

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

To your inquiry......

"Ted, its always good to hear about personal experiences with seeing raw cards that would probably grade that high...thank you.
Over the two sets - approximately how many 8s do you think are in them? And how many others would you guess collected like
the two collectors you mentioned. And lastly, what percentage of PSA 8 level cards do you think have been slabbed (apologies if
you've already mentioned it but I missed it)."

I did already answer your last one....that is if it pertains to the 1st T206 set I described......

"The slightly better set consists of 523 cards....Wagner is ExMt and Plank is Ex (no Doyle). I'd estimate about 20% of the cards in
this set are "8's" (or 100+ cards). And, 60% are "7's"; and, the remaining 20% are "6's".

Look, I cannot discern the difference between a card that would Grade 7 or an 8. To me they are one and the same (Near Mint vs
Near Mint Mint is just a matter of semantics). But, I did say.....

"The owner of this set has no interest in ever getting his collection graded. But, several years ago he put some of his best ones to
the test by submitting to SGC and they all graded "8's".."

Now, how many of these 100+ (possible 8's) he submitted, and indeed they were graded as such, I don't know. Perhaps all 100+ of
them were, or just a partial amount. I trust his word that he went thru this exercise.

And, to your other question....how can you expect me to have an actual number of how many "raw" T206 collections are out there
in the hinterland ? Up until two years ago, when I got onboard Net54, I was quite private about my Sportscard collection; and, only
about 1/2 a dozen on this Forum knew of me. Except for the various vintage card articles I had published.

I took this time to respond to you here because I have a lot of respect for you. There are others on here that are skeptical about
what I have posted here and that's their problem....because if I was to reveal one of these owners....it would shut them up.
The 2nd owner is a very good friend of mine (25 years) and is a very private collector (I don't think anyone on Net54 would know him).

Thanks for your inquiries,

TED Z