Your Best Raw Card Success Story

[T206DK]

I remember back in the early 90's buying a bunch of T206's off of a guy who had placed an ad in SCD. My brother and I bought about 30 cards for between $6-8 a card. They all graded around 3 or 4 with a couple of 5's from PSA when we finally got around to grading them. We also used to buy T3's from an old man who set up at small card shows in our area back then...we bought about a dozen or so from him for I think $40-$50 each. none were real gems, but they weren't trashy either. Those were the good old days.

[T206Collector]

...my best raw card story is also probably a T206 Bresnahan batting that came in a group of raw cards and ultimately graded an SGC 70. Seriously strange coincidence.

But the story I often tell is about my old T206 Pfeister Throwing, which was almost entirely covered in scrapbook paper, which I got for around $10. The paper literally fell off of the card when I put it under water and there was absolutely no glue residue or paper damage at all. SGC also graded that one an SGC 70.

I don't own either anymore.

[M's_Fan]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

...my best raw card story is also probably a T206 Bresnahan batting that came in a group of raw cards and ultimately graded an SGC 70. Seriously strange coincidence.

But the story I often tell is about my old T206 Pfeister Throwing, which was almost entirely covered in scrapbook paper, which I got for around $10. The paper literally fell off of the card when I put it under water and there was absolutely no glue residue or paper damage at all. SGC also graded that one an SGC 70.

I don't own either anymore.

What a weird coincidence about that T206 Bresnahan! And cool story about that Pfeister, I've never dared putting a T206 under water...

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by M's_Fan

I've never dared putting a T206 under water...

Putting moral issues aside, T206s fair well under water as long as they are dried reasonable well and you don't keep them under for more than a few minutes. It's not like what happens to a Topps card.

[autograf]

Bought a raw T206 Mathewson portrait at a Cincinnati show a long time ago that looked trimmed but it filled a hole for $200. I decided to grade and it came back a PSA6 EXMT. That was a nice turn. In regards to soaking, bought a 19th century album and soaked out about 600-700 cards including 10 N162's, two of which were baseball. They later graded at SGC as SGC70 and SGC80. Dunlap was one. Not sure the other.

[chaddurbin]

bought a couple raw cards from julie (HI JULIE!!!) that turned into a psa6 t3 johnson and a sgc80 e90-1 plank.

[Leon]

Bought a raw N172 Delehanty on ebay. Sent it to PSA and it came back trimmed. I never thought it was. Sent it to SGC and it came back an 84.

[scooter729]

Finds are getting tougher to come across these days, but I bought this one off ebay less than a year ago, with a bad scan, for less than $100. Turned out to be the no number variation, and graded a PSA 2.