PreWar cards - population reports

[Potomac Yank]

Originally Posted by magic1313

What do you think skews the pop numbers more?

Raw cards in private collections or
Cards from one company removed from slab and sent to another company?

Both actions have the opposite effect on the pop reports.

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The answer to your question is easy ... it should be obvious even to a newbee.

1. If you crack open a slab and send the card for a hopefull bump to the same grader, or any grader ... the card is being counted again.
An inaccurate count, and pop is being created.

2. Before the graders came over from the coin hobby, the baseball cardoholics new how to grade their own cards, they didn't need a grader to tell them what they already knew.
The non uniformity in grading, was no different than what it is now.

The authentication edge goes to the dealers, and collectors prior to the coming of the Middleman (graders).
Simply stated, when it came to the raw cards, they looked at, handled, and even smelled more card sets than the sides, and corners the middlemen are good at.

I'm willing to bet that there are more raw sets out there held by knowledgeable collectors, than you think.