Have you ever damaged your own card?

QUITCRAB

I dont know how it happened but I found a "tack or pinhole" through the top loader, through the poster and out the back of a 68 topps cepeda poster-I am clueless on how it happened....I also ripped a 64 stand up while cracking it out of a psa holder-the tool, a plexiglass cutter to pry open the holder slipped and cut the card..it was a common...2 damaged cards in a year..and I am a careful person! glad it wasnt a super star scott

benderbroeth

i once accidently let a sighned JOHNNY SAIN 52 topps card go through the wash...man was i mad...

bri2327

I accidently burned a Darryl Strawberry rookie card when it was a big deal back around 1986.

Oh wait, that was no mistake. I was 13, a Yankees fan and trying to prove a point to a friend who was a Mets fan

zef204

Too many to talk about.

MooseDog

I was getting a very nice 1960 Topps Bobby Shantz ready to send to PSA - perfect centering, high gloss, just a real pretty card. Certainly an 8, possibly a 9. As I was taking it out of the original Card Saver II to put into a Card Saver I it slipped out of my hand...right on one of the corners, of course.

Allen

Yes several......

julen23

i popped open a psa 6 '69 reggie jackson w/ butter knife and stabbed fuqing corner w/ the butter knife!!!!

stupidity at its best or worst...

julen

RipublicaninMass

<< <i>i popped open a psa 6 '69 reggie jackson w/ butter knife and stabbed fuqing corner w/ the butter knife!!!!

stupidity at its best or worst...

julen >>



Same thing, diffrent card, screwdriver

GDM67

This is why I'll never break a card out of a graded holder.

I left an assortment of loose Sunoco stamps in my jacket pocket back in '78 or so, which eighty-sixed the lion's share of my collection of them when the jacket went through the wash. Probably 40-50 of them.

XanaduNow

Emmitt Smith.

Confused? Give it a minute.

Arthur

zef204

Here's one of my crack out casualties.

Tedw9

I had a T 206 Christy Mathewson white cap framed with a early 1900's magazine article (because the article had a picture same pose as the card). It was one of my favorite cards, looked sweet framed.

We had just moved into a new house and I had yet to finish unboxing everything, so the frame was in my basement, on the floor, leaned against the wall.

I'm away at a concert when my ex decides to do laundry then go shopping. While she was gone something in the washer stuck open and water flooded my basement. Christy got a bath and a nice stain on his white cap.

Cubby

Yup, me too cracking a card from a PSA holder.
Fortunately, it was a Hudson from 1999 Ultimate
Victory, I think. (PSA 6 or 7)

williplett

A few months ago, my lazy a$$ wrecked a perfectly good PSA 9 1976 Craig Nettles. I have cracked a few cards before with nary an issue, but this one cracked weird and creased the card.

The lazy part comes because the card had a badly scratched holder and rather than fill out a separate sheet and sub for the re-holder, I decided I would just crack it and send it in with the others for a 1972-present $5 special. I figured the worst the would happen would that I would just end up with another 9 in a pristine holder. Lucky it was only a $20 card.

I did the same thing with a 1980 Foster PSA 9. The card practically jumped out of the holder with no issues...other than it came back an 8 the second time around.

fiveniner

yes two very nice 59 topps while removing from a gai holder.

QUITCRAB

I feel a little better now!!!

Munson15

I just got a Topps Rookie Mattingly and then left it in a shirt pocket and the wife decided to do the wash and now I have a nice clean Mattingly rookie....

1989FleerBillRipkencollector

Opened my mail on the porch and left it. Well my dog chewed on my Alex Gordon cutout. Good thing I paid $15 for it before price was crazy.

Another time I had a card in a envelope to give my boys as a reward and I wanted to open it and put more cards in so I grabbed the scissors. Well, I trimmed it real good !!!

rounding3rd

Yep...I was trying to crack out a '52 Bowman from a GAI holder and my "tool of choice" slipped and gouged the back of the card. I try not to crack out cards anymore.

-Mike

2dueces

Zef, I need that Kemp for my 61 set. If you don't want it to remind you of how you hurt it, PM me. Joe

originalisbest

Oh! Ouch! Sorry to hear of these experiences.

I know tackling a stubborn slab can be most frustrating. What's worked well for me with coins, and probably would do well with cards, is to slowly crack all four seams by carefully closing a vise on them (such as what you'd see on an old workbench like my dad's.)

I have a '62 Frank Robinson in a BVG slab (not particularly high grade, like an EX-MT) that I want raw, that I may try this with. The BVG slabs are among the most stubborn...

nightcrawler

At least Zef hit him right in the numbers.


I used to play with my C55 Vezina when I was a kid, now I try and forget how nice it used to be.

TheVon

<< <i>I accidently burned a Darryl Strawberry rookie card when it was a big deal back around 1986.

Oh wait, that was no mistake. I was 13, a Yankees fan and trying to prove a point to a friend who was a Mets fan >>



I actually had a very similar experience wherein I accidentally burnt several hundred Bill Buckner cards over the course of several years and always on his birthday.

I'm over it now though. Mostly. (I know, I know, it wasn't all his fault anyway.)

magellan

<< <i>I used to play with my C55 Vezina when I was a kid >>



So that's what they call it in Canada !

lawnmowerman

<< <i>Emmitt Smith.

Confused? Give it a minute.

Arthur >>



I cant do it Arthur. The pain is still too fresh. I need time to grieve

Whatever, I received a nice raw auto'd Emmitt card yesterday. 100% a psa 9, maybe a 10. It was in a toploader with tape on top. I used a knife instead of my razor(which I always use) and cut the tape then slipped and stabbed emmitt.

I still have not damaged a card cracking slabs though

XanaduNow

<< <i>

<< <i>Emmitt Smith.

Confused? Give it a minute.

Arthur >>



I cant do it Arthur. The pain is still too fresh. I need time to grieve

Whatever, I received a nice raw auto'd Emmitt card yesterday. 100% a psa 9, maybe a 10. It was in a toploader with tape on top. I used a knife instead of my razor(which I always use) and cut the tape then slipped and stabbed emmitt.

I still have not damaged a card cracking slabs though >>



I was starting to think that the batteries in the Motorola ES22 had died.

Arthur

fandango

I have damaged cards on purpose, in order to obtain a PSA 1 through 10 set of a specific issue.......

phreakydancin

<< <i>I used to play with my C55 Vezina when I was a kid, now I try and forget how nice it used to be. >>

I may be off by a year or two, but my calculations put your age around 108 (?)