Any Opinions on the Helmar cards on Ebay ?

[novakjr]

The one really interesting thing about these, is that no matter how beautiful, rare or collectible these are, they've made grading impossible. Assuming at some point the TPG's decided to grade these, they couldn't properly without knowing the original extent of the artificial aging. Basically, when NEW, these are already in somewhat of a beater-like condition. So theoretically, a 3 or 4 is actually a 10..

Personally these don't interest me much. BUT if I were a "player collector" who had probably already achieved completion(or near completion) of said player, I'd probably jump through hoops to add these pieces to my collection.. Highly collectible Players with a very limited number of items available, like Sockalexis, Moonlight Graham(well, you get the idea), I would expect to sell for pretty high prices.