Curious...when did "7" become the slab "cutoff"?

[JasonL]

yeah, you know, I already have two of those 5 (1967 raw and 1969 PSA 8), but I bought them anyway...couldn't resist the package deal.

The Mathews collection sounds great - do you collect graded or raw? targeting fairly high grade? Which one did you find the toughest to get a reasonable price on -of the ones you own?

[ThoseBackPages]

Originally Posted by JasonL

yeah, you know, I already have two of those 5 (1967 raw and 1969 PSA 8), but I bought them anyway...couldn't resist the package deal.

The Mathews collection sounds great - do you collect graded or raw? targeting fairly high grade? Which one did you find the toughest to get a reasonable price on -of the ones you own?

I only collect graded, with this "loosely" as my general rule...

on anything pre-1972 the lower the grade, the better.
on 72 to 79, looking for 7's, 8's and possibly 9's
on 80 to 09, looking for 9's and possibly 10's


For Mathews, i go for 5/6 maybe 7's

Of the ones i own, they were all fairly reasonable. Havnt tracked down an affordable '53 bowman yet. its the '52 that wont be reasonable!!! LOL

[JasonL]

Eric,
that sounds like a good way to go about it.
Most of my Mathews cards are raw, and I have been thinking about submitting them, but I suspect they are mostly 5s and 6s

Ideally, I would like to assemble a graded collection with the 1960s cards in PSA 7 and the 1950s in PSA 6 if I can't swing the 7s...

Just got the Banks lot yesterday...they look fantastic. Honestly, on a couple of them, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between those and a PSA 9.

Good luck with your Mathews collection...post scans when you add a new one.

[Robextend]

I think everyone makes some good points. Many post-war sets have very little price difference between 7's and 9's. I am working on an SGC graded 1970 Topps football set. I find that for the majority of the cards (mainly commons) there is little price difference between a 7 or 9, so I might as well go for the 9 and lead the way on the registry.

[GoldenAge50s]

Funny you guys are talking about Mathews--I just got 2 back from SGC. The '54 Bowman is from my complete set and the '53 is from my #2 set. I sent a few of each in just to see how they would grade.

I also have a '53 Color just back, but I haven't looked at those yet!

[JasonL]

Thanks for sharing...

You must have some extremely nice sets of these issues.

I collect Mathews primarily because he was my Father's favorite player while growing up outside of Milwaukee. Do you have any player collections as well?

[GoldenAge50s]

Jason---

Never have been a player collector. The heart of my collection are the early'50s Topps & Bowman, and they are all my originals from my boyhood of buying packs. Several complete sets & dupes, altho I have sold most of the dupes over the last 8 yrs on EBay.