Forum: VINTAGE
11-20-2025, 11:43 AM
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Forum: VINTAGE
11-20-2025, 11:32 AM
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Replies: 229
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Forum: VINTAGE
11-20-2025, 11:25 AM
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Replies: 9
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Forum: VINTAGE
11-20-2025, 11:09 AM
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Replies: 18
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The large focus of my collection is postwar...
The large focus of my collection is postwar vintage. When I started collecting cards as a kid in the late 1980's - the cards I came to quickly pine over were the stars of my parents generation in the...
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Forum: VINTAGE
11-20-2025, 10:54 AM
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Replies: 24
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Forum: VINTAGE
12-24-2024, 10:56 AM
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Replies: 79
Views: 6,800
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Forum: VINTAGE
12-19-2024, 10:22 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 5,056
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Forum: VINTAGE
12-19-2024, 08:06 AM
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Replies: 26
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Forum: VINTAGE
12-18-2024, 06:01 PM
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Replies: 79
Views: 6,800
Buy the card and not the grade movement
Yep.
About five years ago, I had a ‘49 Leaf Ted Williams in a PSA 2.5. Color was pack fresh, and the focus was dead on. It had some wrinkles, but nothing broke the surface. Corners had wear, but...
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Forum: VINTAGE
12-18-2024, 04:18 PM
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Replies: 79
Views: 6,800
It's getting to where if I really want a card,...
It's getting to where if I really want a card, and know it's within my price range - the number on the slab for mid- to lower grade isn't really even the first consideration anymore. We've all seen...
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Forum: VINTAGE
12-18-2024, 12:42 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 5,056
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Forum: VINTAGE
12-17-2024, 10:26 AM
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Replies: 479
Views: 40,355
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Forum: VINTAGE
12-16-2024, 04:43 PM
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Replies: 479
Views: 40,355
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Forum: VINTAGE
12-16-2024, 04:37 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 5,056
90's cards are not "vintage".
Vintage is...
90's cards are not "vintage".
Vintage is generally considered anything 1980 and earlier. After that you have the junk wax era, and then when that ended in the early 90's, manufacturers started...
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Forum: VINTAGE BUY/SELL/TRADE
10-31-2024, 12:06 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 199
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Forum: VINTAGE BUY/SELL/TRADE
10-31-2024, 10:28 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 199
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Forum: VINTAGE BUY/SELL/TRADE
10-30-2024, 01:52 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 171
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Forum: VINTAGE BUY/SELL/TRADE
10-30-2024, 09:44 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 171
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Forum: VINTAGE
10-21-2024, 05:40 PM
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Replies: 479
Views: 40,355
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Forum: VINTAGE
10-21-2024, 02:16 PM
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Replies: 479
Views: 40,355
Nice card.
Back in the earlier days of PSA,...
Nice card.
Back in the earlier days of PSA, I feel like most cards like that could get a fair shake on the combination features of their grades as per the descriptions. For example, "technically"...
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Forum: VINTAGE
10-20-2024, 09:21 AM
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Replies: 479
Views: 40,355
Thanks. Yeah, that Banks was not easy to find....
Thanks. Yeah, that Banks was not easy to find. Centering in most cases is actually a condition attribute that's relatively down on my list; I think for the most part the focus that vintage collectors...
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Forum: VINTAGE
10-20-2024, 07:37 AM
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Replies: 36
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Either / or.
I don't have a problem buying...
Either / or.
I don't have a problem buying raw cards, even pricey ones, as long as I can inspect them physically and in-person before doing so. Graded cards didn't exist until I was an adult in...
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Forum: VINTAGE
10-20-2024, 07:25 AM
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Replies: 479
Views: 40,355
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Forum: VINTAGE
10-20-2024, 07:21 AM
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Replies: 479
Views: 40,355
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Forum: VINTAGE
10-20-2024, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 687
I don't know that you would necessarily get a...
I don't know that you would necessarily get a higher grade on that from SGC.
Both graders are tough in their own ways. I will echo the sentiments that PSA doesn't know what they're doing right now...
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Forum: VINTAGE
04-27-2024, 10:05 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 4,452
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Forum: VINTAGE
04-21-2024, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,245
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Forum: VINTAGE
04-19-2024, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,245
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Forum: GRADING
04-19-2024, 05:19 PM
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Replies: 287
Views: 42,018
You mean like they did with Gary Moser, Brent,...
You mean like they did with Gary Moser, Brent, PSA and PWCC? Kurt's methods are way harder to detect than actual trimming - and yet nobody in the long run seems to have given the first damn about...
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Forum: VINTAGE
04-19-2024, 05:08 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 4,452
Riiight. The same way the demand dropped off a...
Riiight. The same way the demand dropped off a bit for Ruth and Cobb? When I first got back into this hobby as an adult, you could buy a PSA 1 Goudey Ruth for about $1000. What do they cost today?...
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Forum: GRADING
02-29-2024, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 287
Views: 42,018
Part of the whole problem with the dilemma...
Part of the whole problem with the dilemma surrounding outfits like Kurt's is the subjectivity and semantics we have backed ourselves into this hobby since it went mainstream, well over 40 years ago...
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Forum: GRADING
02-29-2024, 11:48 AM
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Replies: 287
Views: 42,018
Sorry, but this is projecting quite a lot back...
Sorry, but this is projecting quite a lot back upon what Topps "Chewing Gum" considered their primary product 50+ years ago. They were a GUM company, not a sports collectibles company. The notion...
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Forum: VINTAGE
02-09-2024, 09:09 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 4,452
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Forum: VINTAGE
01-15-2024, 10:34 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 6,443
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Forum: VINTAGE
01-14-2024, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 479
Views: 40,355
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Forum: BASEBALL
12-19-2023, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,433
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Forum: VINTAGE BUY/SELL/TRADE
07-29-2023, 06:54 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 381
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Forum: VINTAGE BUY/SELL/TRADE
07-25-2023, 05:37 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 381
FS: 1965 Topps Mantle #350 SGC 3
1965 Topps Mickey Mantle #350, SGC 3 VG. $320 obo PP delivered, USPS first class package insured. Please DM me for the fastest response. Thanks!
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Forum: BASEBALL BUY/SELL/TRADE
07-25-2023, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 255
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Forum: BASEBALL BUY/SELL/TRADE
07-24-2023, 07:47 PM
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Replies: 3
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