Another SGC question.

[ctownboy]

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.

[glchen]

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.

[Jewish-collector]

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.

[ctownboy]

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.

David

[smtjoy]

Good info so far.

I would highly recommend grading just for the fact to protect the resale value and protect the card. Raw cards on ebay sell for much less on average, mainly because you take a risk on the fact that you have no idea from a scan if they have been altered, trimmed or lower condition. I would grade any card valued over $25 imo. On cost I usually save up till I get around 100 and work a deal out with SGC depending on the cards for usually around $6-7 a card. By sending this many in at one time my postage usually comes out to less than $2 a card total shipping there and back.


I agree that having them graded will make it easier to sell if you pass, I am in the same boat with no survivors and have made it easy in my will to send them with instruction to an auction house to sell since most will be graded and I have a full list from VCP with attached pricing so they know what to expect.