Advice needed (1951 Berk Ross)

[David W]

Unless your cards are pretty high end, I don't know that grading will do much for you. If they are going to grade 6-7 or under, I'd rather have them raw.

[wake.up.the.echoes]

Richard, what set are you collecting?

David, thanks for your comments and to some extent I agree.

Figure I will just go back to having fun collecting. Afterall, that's the point, isn't it?

Alan

[cdn_collector]

Originally Posted by 19bowman48

Richard, what set are you collecting?

Alan, I'm working on completing the 1912 C46 set. It's been in the back of my mind for 4-5 years that I'd eventually try to build the set, but I always hesitated to commit to actually doing it.

Initially, I started by trying to put together a Toronto subset (13 cards). That took me about a year and a half, and once I picked up the elusive 13th card (#2, McGinley) I decided to give in and try to build the entire set.

On January 1, 2009 I had 12 cards and by mid-March I was at 42. That's where I still sit. My goal for this year is to try to add 12 cards new cards to get me to 60%, and if I can upgrade a couple others along the way, even better.


Regards,

Richard.

[wake.up.the.echoes]

Richard,

Good luck on your quest. It sounds like a fun one.

Alan

[wake.up.the.echoes]

So I started calculating how much it would cost to grade the 35/36 baseball cards that I needed to grade from this set, and realized (AGAIN) that it would be way too much. Instead I bought (technically my fiancee bought it for me for my birthday) a PSA 6 Joe Dimaggio and finished the set. WOOHOO. My first real Dimaggio card! Sweet.

[cdn_collector]

Alan, you and I see things the same way when it comes to grading. The reason I've never sent anything in is because I always look at the cost in terms of what I could spend on cards instead.

Good choice, if you ask me. Congratulations on finishing the baseball portion of the set! On a side note, the baseball portion of the '51 Berk Ross set was the first set I completed when I returned to the hobby back in 2002 (I completed it in 2003).

And Happy Birthday, too!

Richard.