Mid grade beauties...

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I define this range as 3-5, personally, as many 6’s start to look pretty high end, at least to me and especially of late.

So, let’s see the cards you love that are between VG and EX...

lwehlers

really nice mantle auto!

GroceryRackPack

I dig that 68 Topps Posters Box Cut out--Yeah that's cool!

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@lwehlers

I thinks that’s the same as the Exhibit (batting) but with the original background.

@GroceryRackPack

Thanks; I made it myself!

1951WheatiesPremium

A few more - what about everyone else?

swish54

I thought the Cal was an 8-9 when I sent it in...one of those oops I missed something somewhere.

JBrules

Here are a couple of my favorite mid-grade cards. Love mid-grade especially when they look like much better than assigned grade.
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@JBrules

54T Aaron is one of the most beautiful cards I have ever seen.

Please DO NOT qualify it or tell me what’s wrong with it because it doesn’t matter. 😉

GREAT card!!!!

Congratulations

Chicago1976

Great thread. Mid-grade, well-centered vintage is a good place to be.

emar

Tim, mid grade vintage is the best!

It's a museum thread....needs more Mickey

10 years in the making, my T206 Wall of Fame.
Johnson with a trace amount paper loss and Mathewson with tape on back, both present as mid-grade.

TGwynnCollector

One of my favorites

Chicago1976

@emar said:
Tim, mid grade vintage is the best!

It's a museum thread....needs more Mickey

omg....great T206 collection! Colors really pop on those. Well done.

OAKESY25

sometimes 5's look like 10's that is a scratch in the case on the right

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@emar - a mix, with Mantle.

Hope that will suffice!

emar

@Chicago1976
Thanks for the compliment!
IMO, t206 is the neatest, most colorful, and still somewhat underrated cardboard set.
It's a painstaking process waiting for your want items to get to market

bswhiten

Good post Tim. As you know, most of us Mick collectors without an unlimited budget rely on mid grade beauties Most of my set is 6 and less…

Bosox1976

82FootballWaxMemorys

All purchased raw in the 90's. I still think #2 is a 5

82FootballWaxMemorys

These represent some of my earliest not current at the time card purchases. All purchased raw (of course) when I was a kid in the late 80's.

balco758

Wow the Jackie R! Awesome.

Here are 3 of my favorites.

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These are two I wish I’d kept. They qualify; can’t keep it all. 😉

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This may be the only Mantle I have in a 6, @bswhiten . Bucked up for obvious reasons of player AND set.

And since any excuse to bring up the set is taken...😂

His two buddies from the set have pretty low pops and don’t surface too often; the Kramer is an “only graded example” 1 of 1 (for now).

Rofles

5.5 too high? Lol
These are two of my favorites in my collection; The fence busters may be my favorite card!

sayheywyo

Purchased raw. An odd ball, but a Babe.

DM23HOF

balco758

Gehrig is a beauty

jordangretzkyfan

Great mid-grade beauties gang! Here are a few centered favorites in my collection...

rexvos

Here are 2 48 Leafs for the pile

Vagabond

Some damn good cards posted in here so far.

graygator

charliehustle14

I'm blessed to have a father who kept all his cards he collected in the 50s. Here's some mid grade stuff he's handed down to me.

NGS428

I like them all!

dalstar66

1966CUDA

Here are a few:

Chicago1976

@1966CUDA said:
Here are a few:

Great cards. That 1954 Topps Ted Williams does not look like a "1" to me...lol. OK, I have to ask....is there something on the back that drove it down? Creases?

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@Chicago1976 said:

@1966CUDA said:
Here are a few:

Great cards. That 1954 Topps Ted Williams does not look like a "1" to me...lol. OK, I have to ask....is there something on the back that drove it down? Creases?

I think I see a pinhole between l and d in ‘outfield’

Chicago1976

@1951WheatiesPremium said:

@Chicago1976 said:

@1966CUDA said:
Here are a few:

Great cards. That 1954 Topps Ted Williams does not look like a "1" to me...lol. OK, I have to ask....is there something on the back that drove it down? Creases?

I think I see a pinhole between l and d in ‘outfield’

Good eyes. Thanks @1951WheatiesPremium. That would do it.

1966CUDA

Yup... pin hole. Beautiful card otherwise.

judgebuck

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@1966CUDA said:
Yup... pin hole. Beautiful card.

Fixed that for you.

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I am the only one that puts on “You’re the Best” from The Karate Kid soundtrack in their head as they scroll down this page?

daltex

@1966CUDA said:
Here are a few:

There is something very wrong with the name "Frankie" Robinson. It makes "Bob" Clemente sound completely normal.

orioles93

jackstraw

Nice fat and almost even borders and almost perfect centering!! My first set I collected so it's my favorite!!

1951WheatiesPremium

Having been used on his Bowman card, the photo image is standalone beautiful but also shows you how talented these card artists were, too.

jackstraw

judgebuck

Some of these aren't really beauties, and some aren't mid-grade. At any rate, here they are:

judgebuck

A couple more:

Tibor

@judgebuck Those are really nice. The Cobb especially. Any pre-war card is a treasure. 80+ years old. I wonder how many of us will reach those years and be welcomed the way we welcome and treasure those cards. Thanks for sharing 👍.

KendallCat

Great thread and some amazing cards. The 54 Aaron and the T206’s are from another planet!

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