Question about 79 hostess panels

dakota

Can anyone post some info on the 1979 Hostess set. Value of a complete set in panels? Hard to find? What to look for? Does Psa grade them? Etc
Thanks in advance for any help.

jrdolan

PSA does grade Hostess panels. In fact now they grade any panel, as long as it will fit in one of their holders.

So far, no one has graded a 1979 Hostess Panel. In fact, not too many have graded a '79 Hostess single! Only 34 singles from the whole set have been graded, with no player having more than 2. I have the only Bench, for example.

I don't think it's because they are necessarily hard to locate (raw) -- though maybe they are hard to find in nice shape, without stains, and still having room to cut outside the lines. I'd guess many raw examples do exist that were scissored on or inside the lines back in '79, and that would result in a poor grade or a non-grade "Authentic" from PSA. The cut has to be just outside the lines. (see below)

Mostly, I think it's just one of those hand-cut issues that has not yet been sent in for grading except by a few obsessive player-set collectors.

So it's hard to place a value on a single, a panel, or a complete set. SMR doesn't have a guide for them because there are so few graded examples, and most of those were submitted by their present owners and have not been sold since grading.

rvc

jrdolan- did you cut your card with scissors or goto the local framing store and use the big pro cutter?

jrdolan

Lever-type paper cutter. I'd feel silly taking a Hostess Twinkies box or panel to a frame shop and giving them precise instructions for cutting the card out.

bobsbbcards

There are some very nice complete sets of Hostess panels on eBay right now (not '79 unfortunately). Here's a link (not spam cause I'm not the seller).

1975 - 1978 Hostess Panels sets on eBay

royalbrett

<< <i> The cut has to be just outside the lines. >>



Does anyone know how nice the cut has to be outside of the lines?

For example, if one had plenty of border outside of the lines, would the card grade higher if the card was trimmed (outside of the lines) to make the cut look more even?

Ripken

I find the grading of Post & Hostess panels quite bizarre. You can actually modify the card--25 or 40 years after the date of issue--to obtain a better grade? To me that just doesn't fit what PSA is about. Furthermore, the idea back then was to cut ON the line. Now grading companies are telling us it should be outside? Who says? And you mean to tell me that a card's grade depends on one's dexterity with the scissors in this new 'make your own grade' situation?

I'm not telling anyone not to submit if they think they have cards that would grade well. I may do the same thing. I just find it a little left of what grading is supposed to be and am surprised they're doing it. I guess where there is an opportunity to make money, there's a way!

rbeaton

I didn't cut this out, rather I purchased it already cut.

Robert

Fuzz

Did we ever decide if these are tall boys (panels - Hostess or Bazooka) and what level of service they need to be submitted under?
Fuzz