1921 W551 10 card strip

ZodiacMindwarp

I have the opportunity to purchase what I believe to be an authentic uncut strip of the entire 10 card 1921 W551 set. I have not been able to find too much information regarding this set. It appears that PSA has only graded 3 of the cards (2 Babe Ruth and 1 Ty Cobb) but there is no listing in the SMR. The few examples (previous and current) on ebay are pretty poorly cut.

How would I go about getting it authenticated? Any idea of the value of the entire strip if it is indeed real? Any advice would be appreciated.

I e-mailed scans to Virtualizard and hopefully he will be able to post them. (Thanks JEB!)

Virtualizard

Michael,

PSA only recently began grading these cards (and labels them as hand-cut), thus the low pops. Therefore, there is no data for SMR as of yet (not that it's stopped them from pricing zero pop cards in the past).

As far as pricing goes, SCD's Standard Catalog lists an uncut strip at $1,600 in NM, $650 in EX, and $325 in VG.

Attached are the scans that Michael emailed me:


Left Side



Right Side



Reverse



Ruth Close-up


JEB.

marty

The strip looks good to me. Complete strips do not come along all that often. If you are happy with the price and can afford it, by it. If you pass, let others on the board know, they may have an interest.