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Some OC cards I can Live with
Stone193
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I'm waiting on an auction to end - and I was thinking how fussy I am about centering for the set and I went to my graded file and picked up some stars I picked up at minimum bid back in the early 90s before ebay - no one wanted them - I was more than happy with them.
I know these will offend the eye of many - but I like them and for the money, I feel like I have some really nice "poor-man's" 7s and 8s.
I know some will feel like they just went thru the gallery from hell - but I hope some - like myself - who like bargains - can live with the centering issue - see past it - and like the card.
As some of us ole timers have said - back in our day we knew nothing about OC, MK, trimmed or anything. Personally - I didn't even realize there were series!
Thanx for viewing
mike
I know these will offend the eye of many - but I like them and for the money, I feel like I have some really nice "poor-man's" 7s and 8s.
I know some will feel like they just went thru the gallery from hell - but I hope some - like myself - who like bargains - can live with the centering issue - see past it - and like the card.
As some of us ole timers have said - back in our day we knew nothing about OC, MK, trimmed or anything. Personally - I didn't even realize there were series!
Thanx for viewing
mike
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For some reason, top-bottom centering doesn't bother me as much on this card. It cost me a little less than 7 money.
As king of the PSA 4/5/6, those cards are a sight to behold. I really love the colors on the 55 Williams. Also, the Palin rookie doesn't look OC at all.
Cool stuff.
-Tom
BUT, when I go to sell them, I get creamed.
Thus, I now will only buy them super-cheap.
Until fairly recently, I thought hoarding the nicest OCs was a smart-money play. I
thought the market would eventually "get it." I have changed my mind. It seems
that centering becomes MORE important to the market as each day passes.
But, again, they make collecting attractive cards affordable. And, most 8 and 9 (OCs)
look like they just came out of the pack.
I am perfectly content collecting mid (or even low) grade, but I have passed on countless 1955 TAA cards in trying to put together this set due to major centering flaws.
Like most, I find horizontal centering to be more important than vertical, but even there I can be pretty forgiving on a portrait oriented card with less than perfect left-to-right centering. Case in point, I would be happy to have at least half of those cards posted above in my personal collection... although I would prefer to have them with a lower grade and no qualifiers.
No doubt there are some great bargains to be had if the ST, MK, OC, or other qualifiers don't bother you.
Snorto~
Thanks,
David (LD_Ferg)
1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
<< <i>Also, the Palin rookie doesn't look OC at all >>
And yes, I agree on the selling issue. That's why they're in my collection for keeps.
I don't buy cards like that anymore unless the price is really right. The card I'm waiting on is one of the better centered I've seen in a few years - so I over-sniped it!
Back in the 90s, I probably overpaid compared to today!
That's just the way it goes in a hobby - wouldn't have it any other way.
Thanx again!
mike
gorgeous cards.
I'd be tempted to crack and resubmit. This looks like a no-brainer unqualified PSA 6 to my eyes...
Steve
<< <i>Screw what the slab says. In fact, those were graded in the olden days when they wouldn't let the submitter choose whether a qualifier could be given (which I think is complete BS by the way). I would venture to guess that within 3 submissions, all of the 55s and 56s would be straight 7s if they were submitted with "No Qualifiers Please" on the submission form. Even the Koufax. >>
I will disagree with you with regard to eventual PSA 7's. In fact, the only one that I could possibly see from the 1955 and 1956 group would be the 1956 Aaron. But then again, I've seen some ugly stuff in holders with the "new" labels on eBay lately...
<< <i>Is this what they used to make those flips?
Negative - that model does not have the dreaded zero with the line through it. However, Stone did use one of those to do his high school term papers.
<< <i>I thought he used a hammer and chisel? >>
He had to, those cave walls were hard.
Now - here's the card I was waiting for - the first in quite some time that was centered - AND - I got it for 26.65! (SMR 40)
For anyone who knows this set - centering is tough!
Fun nite for me - also picked up a Teddygame PM10 pin, a movie lobby card - baseball related - called Big Leaguer - 1953 - I'll post when I get it - it starred Edward G. Robinson and had a cameo with Carl Hubbell - and a Hartland Yogi w/mask - usually the mask is missing/lost.
Great nite!!!!!!!!
mike
Jeff
Dave D.
<< <i>Screw what the slab says. In fact, those were graded in the olden days when they wouldn't let the submitter choose whether a qualifier could be given (which I think is complete BS by the way). I would venture to guess that within 3 submissions, all of the 55s and 56s would be straight 7s if they were submitted with "No Qualifiers Please" on the submission form. Even the Koufax. >>
I was thinking the same thing... I think several of those could pass for 7's and maybe a lucky 8 or two!
Being well preserved for 70 years is far more of an accomplishment than being made perfectly (from ebay):
Once into the 60s and 70s, they simply need to present nicely, sometimes oc takes away a little, sometimes a little more, sometimes nothing at all -- the 71 Clemente is closer to a 10, than a lot of 9s I've seen
stamp in green background, one of the highest graded and one of the toughest in the set
both these have the smallest mk on back
I like Duke Snider so I bought this with a o/c qualifer.