Raw Cards

[barrysloate]

Lots of collectors have raw cards, even more than you may imagine. Not everyone is smitten with professional grading.

[Jim VB]

I showed these on the Post-War forum recently.

Yeah, I have a few raw cards.

[danmckee]

WOW Jim!! All of my sets are raw and in binders but not nearly as organized as yours are! I love that set up!!! You don't have an extra wrapper for that President's set do you? Dan

To answer this thread, I only collect raw. I grade cards when I am selling them or want to have them on the SGC registry like my Washington Times cobb and Crawford.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by danmckee

WOW Jim!! All of my sets are raw and in binders but not nearly as organized as yours are! I love that set up!!! You don't have an extra wrapper for that President's set do you? Dan

To answer this thread, I only collect raw. I grade cards when I am selling them or want to have them on the SGC registry like my Washington Times cobb and Crawford.

Sorry Dan, no wrappers at all, never mind "extra" ones on hard to find sets. Besides, Didn't you pick up a wrapper on that set last year? I seem to remember a discussion about potential cross-over between R114 and R328 wrappers.


And, to answer the original question, about 98% of my stuff is raw. I recently started thinking about selling off some basketball sets so have had a few of them graded by SGC.

I'm also not yet 100% complete on all the Topps sets. I'm about 100 cards short on 1952 (guess which 100), and maybe 50 cards short on each of 1954, 1960, and 1961.

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

I showed these on the Post-War forum recently.

Yeah, I have a few raw cards.

That's a lot of cards. Very Impressive.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by tonyo

That's a lot of cards. Very Impressive.

That's what my wife says. Without the "very impressive" part.

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

That's what my wife says. Without the "very impressive" part.

Did you stop at 86 topps, or are you still collecting new stuff?

[Jim VB]

I think '87 is actually just cropped out of the picture, but I pretty much stopped after that.

[docpatlv]

JimVB,

Since your albums are stored vertically, do you have any problems with the pages "buckling" a little bit? Mine did, so I started cutting cardboard up to place on the front/back inside each binder to make them more snug. I didn't want the cards to start curling up. What do you think about storing them horizontally?

Mike

[Jim VB]

I know horizontal storage is supposed to be better, but I just can't bring myself to do it. It looks like crap.

And, to answer your question, I haven't noticed a problem with "sag" but they're pretty tightly crammed together.

[mintacular]

Yes, many collect raw and prefer to hold the cards in their hands and not some piece of plastic. Additionally, buying raw is oftentimes cheaper.

However, there are advantages to graded cards that are worth considering: authenticating cards by a professional to ensure they are not counterfeits or altered, receiving a grade that (could) increase the value for resale, protection of the card from aging, etc., and some people just like the view of a card enclosed in a solid/clean looking holder....

[danmckee]

Yea Jim that was me, but I have the sports set wrapper, I need the actual Presidents wrapper now. I have the Presidents in all 3 colors complete less the McKinnley of course. I love the way you did the outside of your binders, I need to do something like that.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by danmckee

Yea Jim that was me, but I have the sports set wrapper, I need the actual Presidents wrapper now. I have the Presidents in all 3 colors complete less the McKinnley of course. I love the way you did the outside of your binders, I need to do something like that.

Heavy duty Avery "view" binders from Staples. Black for Baseball. Blue for Basketball. White for non-sports. You can just print from a scan of any card you want on the spines.

[danmckee]

Very cool indeed! Thanks for the info. Dan