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Buying Vintage, all sports.
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Buying Vintage, all sports.
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Buying Vintage, all sports.
Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
Great looking card!
Worth the wait, indeed!
PoppaJ
This IS the Clemente. I purposely said PM for price because I don't know what to do with it. I'm torn between keeping it and selling it. If I keep it, I'll have to sell a heckuva lot more stuff, which brings me to this:
If the choice is between keeping this card, or selling near complete or complete sets from the late 60's and 70's plus some other graded HOF cards, low pops, etc. what would be your vote on what to do? I'm not doing this set, but is this a "cornerstone of the collection" kind of card? When I say that, I mean the card, not necessarily the grade. And speaking of the grade, what are everyone's thoughts on that?
These questions are why I posted it here, for discussion. (not for spam BST purposes). Thanks in advance.
Buying Vintage, all sports.
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P.S. How much for the white strand of cat hair to the left???
Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972
As far as the grade, I think it is fair. Touch on the upper right, white print mark on the first "E" in Clemente, and a little bit O/C from T/B.
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Very nice card
I vote keep the Clemente
No but seriously, I think it moved.
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It's either correct OR a little generous.
Market-Grading principles will continue to test the limits of
centering-contributions to "eye appeal," until the pendulum
swings the other way.
I like that PSA fully discloses the scheme, but I don't like the
trend toward liberally invoking its terms.
Half-Point Grades:
Cards that exhibit high-end qualities within each particular grade, between PSA Good 2 and PSA Mint 9, may achieve a half-point increase. While PSA graders will evaluate all of the attributes possessed by a card in order to determine if the card may be eligible, there will be a clear focus on centering.
Generally speaking, a card must exhibit centering that is 5-10% better, at minimum, than the lowest % allowed within a particular grade. It is important to note that there may be cases where the overall strength of the card, such as the quality of the corners and print, will give the card the edge it needs despite the fact that it may exhibit only marginal centering for the grade. This is especially true for cards that find themselves within the bottom half of the PSA 1-10 scale.
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IMV, the Clemente rookie card is a "centerpiece" to a Clemente collection.
It would not be my choice as an "era centerpiece," but there is no rule that
says I am correct.
You will always find another and probably in better condition. Putting together sets, on the other hand, takes a lot of time and even moreso to sell.
For these reasons:
*Less storage space....it's much easier to store one card instead of an entire set.
*It's also easier to liquidate one card if you need to quickly, as opposed to maybe hundreds.
*It's one of the really major key Rookie cards of the 1950's and will always have strong demand. Partial sets from the late 1960's are common as mud.
* I like the eye appeal.
*If you have other low pop cards you would have to sell off, most low pop cards eventually become higher pops and the demand goes down. Take advantage of the low pop's while they are 'low'.
*The Clemente RC value will remain pretty steady over the next decade. Who knows about the other stuff you may have to sell off in order to keep it.
Just my two cents. By the way, sweet card.
No way man...
you better start watchin your ass burgundy.
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A couple more details: most of the sets I have were built my me over the past few years. Some were acquired in bulk collection purchases and I built them from the best stuff in those lots, so it wasn't painstakingly done. The thought process on selling was, as cardbender said, late 60's and 70's stuff is a little easier to find than high grade Roberto RC's.
VCP on the card is $3500-4000. I guess it all comes down to how much I like the card and whether I want it in my collection.
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<< <i>Very interesting responses. I thought the majority of people would say keep the Clemente and sell the other stuff.
A couple more details: most of the sets I have were built my me over the past few years. Some were acquired in bulk collection purchases and I built them from the best stuff in those lots, so it wasn't painstakingly done. The thought process on selling was, as cardbender said, late 60's and 70's stuff is a little easier to find than high grade Roberto RC's.
VCP on the card is $3500-4000. I guess it all comes down to how much I like the card and whether I want it in my collection. >>
i say keep the clemente, you can always pick the other stuff back up quick enough but you now have a money in the bank HOF rookie in pretty high grade that looks great!! you can pick up early 70-late 60 sets and lots easy and cheap enough but you don't always want to plunk down the $$ to replace or pick up a hi-grade HOF card and you already have one. your right that would be a cornerstone of a collection whether your doing the set or not.
just my .02
thanks for sharing the card looks GREAT!!!
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
It's eye appeal IMO is pretty good.
Steve
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