Your Best Raw Card Success Story

[Robextend]

Bought a 1940 PlayBall George Kelly and a 1948 Leaf George Stirnweiss for about $15 each, sent them to SGC and they both came back as 84's.

Also bought a T205 Marquard for roughly $35 and it came back an SGC 50.

Nothing like getting those raw gems....

[t206wagner]

Bought a 1915 Cracker Jack Meyers for $30 because the seller said it was trimmed. When I received it, it didn't looked trimmed and it measured okay so I sent it to SGC. Came back as an 80.

[Ladder7]

No good deals lately... Two eBay raw purchases long ago, both with horrible scans and the Mantle seller was brand new;

T205 Marquard for $40 came back SGC 80

1959 Mantle for $50 came back PSA 6

Rube is gone, still have the Mick.

[Chris-Counts]

I've told my one grading success story here before, but I'll summarize it again. I picked up seven "colorized" 1940 Play Ball card at the S.F. Cow Palace show a couple years ago. The seller thought some kids colored them in. Later I described the cards to Mike Baker at GAI and he encourage me to send them in for grading. I sent him several, and for a couple months, they sat in the GAI office. Finally the cards came back with the explanation that they were "too controversial" to grade. Mike confirmed with me that one prominent dealer in particular was campaigning against their authenticity, but he said he believed they were legitimate. So I took the cards to SGC's table at the National in Anaheim. I showed them to several of their representatives, and they repeated the story about the previously-mentioned dealer. Out of frustration, I handed them a card of Frank Demaree and said, "Please, take this card back to your lab, and if you have to destroy it in a science experiment, go ahead. I'm convinced these cards were printed in color and I'm willing to sacrifice one to prove it." The rep from SGC took the card, and a few weeks later it was returned in a slab identifying it as a proof. It graded excellent. Here's the card before it was slabbed ...

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

...Later I described the cards to Mike Baker at GAI and he encourage me to send them in for grading.

Did this conversation occur on a Sunday night?

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

I sent him several, and for a couple months, they sat in the GAI office.

I know, I can't get anything done either when I only go to work on Mondays.

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

Finally the cards came back with the explanation that they were "too controversial" to grade.

Yeah, far be it from Mike Baker and GAI to get involved in anything controversial.

[wolfdogg]

Got a 1915 Cracker Jack Joe Wood in a trade (guy told me he would take $300 in trade). Later sent it to PSA and returned an 8 NrMT-MT.....since been sold

[Fred]

A few years ago a D304 Cobb came on ebay with a BIN. I must have been the first person to see it. I emailed the seller and asked if I could return it if it were found to be a reprint. The seller immediatley responded and said "yes". I BIN'd it, submitted it and got it graded for about $500. The card actually presents better than the grade.

I picked up one of those 4-1 Goudeys with three HOF players. I probably paid less than $50 for it. I sat on it for a while then submitted it and it came back an SGC84.

[DeanH3]

Back in the mid 90's I was buying raw 50's. When I finally bought into the grading scene in the late 90's I submitted a few of my cards.

1955 Al Kaline graded PSA 8
1955 Ernie Banks graded PSA 5
1956 Sandy Koufax graded PSA 8
1956 Roberto Clemente came back trimmed
1961 Roger Maris graded 8
1959 Duke Snider graded PSA 8

[glynparson]

Raw $175 got a PSA 8 and sold it to a whale for a lot more than that.