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Old 01-25-2011, 11:27 AM
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I think there are three good reasons for having pre-war cards graded (and I resisted slabbing cards for a number of years):

1. You plan on selling a set through an auction. The prices achieved will be greater because potential buyers like to know a 3rd party grading service like SGC has deemed the cards original, unaltered and the SGC holders are aesthetically pleasing with the card entombed in them.
2. Protection. E94s and E98s more than any other cards I have handled are subject to imploding, for lack of a better term, near the corners of the cards. I do not know if it were the particular card stock used or what but I have gnashed my teeth more than once when a fleck of color left the card while removing a card from a rigid or semi-rigid holder. A card which once was EX becomes GD in a heartbeat.
3. The future. I have two daughters and although the younger one is semi-interested in my collection, I have explained the grading system etc. to my wife because statistics show wives outlive husbands and I would like for her to be able to sell the cards without much hassle and use the money as she sees fit. The kids (and now grandkids) would like to have certain cards to remember their dad's hobby and collection obsession, but most would be sold. I have hesitated to have many of my complete tobacco sets graded because of the expense of slabbing them and I have no desire to sell my sets, especially the T205, T206 and T207, but all my caramel sets are slabbed and also the minor league sets like the Zeenuts, T210s and T212s are all slabbed.

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Old 01-25-2011, 11:54 AM
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Good points. I don't want to burden my family after I'm gone.
Back to the drawing board. That lasted long...all the way through lunch .

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Old 01-25-2011, 12:01 PM
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dave,
if you can make a national (or another show with on-site grading) i would wait for that. the thought of a semi-unique card getting lost is disturbing, to say the least.
that's what i do.....
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Old 01-25-2011, 01:20 PM
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To everyone,

The cards I am thinking about getting graded would all be worth over $50 dollars a piece and most likely over $100 dollars. To me, at this point, cards valued under $50 aren't worth the time, money and hassle to get graded. Maybe later when I have more funds, then yes.

The 40 or so cards I am thinking about getting graded break down like this:

Old Judge - Anson, Ewing, Rusie.
Gypsy Queen (large) - Keefe (trimmed)
T205 - 3 Hall of Famers.
T206 - 3 Hall of Famers.
Polo Grounds - Mathewson
Curtis Ireland - 1 common
Star Player Candy - 16 including 3 Hall of Famers.
York Caramel - 6 Hall of Famers
Diamond Stars - 6 Hall of Famers

Again, this does not include my B18 blankets, S74 silks, pinbacks, commons from the above sets, post war cards or oddball pre-war items (S81 silk of Ed Walsh, Newsboy cabinet of Yale Murphy, R & S artistic die cuts and Scrapps die cuts.

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Old 01-25-2011, 01:50 PM
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Those cards are probably worth getting graded. The 28 Star Player Candy cards did pretty well in this recent Legendary auction: Link

One really nice thing about SGC, at least when Brian and Michael were there, was that they often let you combine shipping even if you have cards on different tiers. For example, if you have a submission where you have a few cards at the $1000 tier and a few more at the $250 tier, you can have them all shipped back to you at the same time if you request it. You can save in shipping costs this way. The drawback is that the cards would be delivered at the slower tier timeframe, so if the $1000 tier were 3 days and the $250 tier was 15 days, all cards would be shipped to you after the 15 day mark. This would be useful if you weren't in a hurry to get back your cards, and wanted to save as much money as possible. You can do the same thing if you have oversized cards. PSA does not allow you to do this, and all submissions in separate tiers and card sizes need their own separate submission and delivery fees.
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David -

Your Buddy Myer card is VERY desirable among Jewish player collectors. I'm getting a few inexpensive cards graded in preparing to sell them. I hope they sell for enough to pay for the grading fees.

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Old 01-25-2011, 02:48 PM
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glchen,

That is more good info to know especially since I have the S81 silk of Walsh and the Newsboy cabinet of Murphy. These two items are large and I don't have them in any protective covering which scares me.

Jewish-collector,

That is what I found out when I first showed a scan of the Myer card on this board a few years back. I didn't know he was Jewish and never thought about this card having a premium attached to it becuase of it. Once I showed the card, people were telling me that because he was Jewish there would MUCH more interest in this card than what a common card would otherwise raise. That is why I would really like to get this card graded and protected in a better holder.

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