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Why are some cards so hard to find?? '59 MAYS

quikjamquikjam Posts: 22
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I attended the National yesterday with my heart set on finding 6 cards on my want list (found one). Granted, I am VERY picky about centering so I knew the odds would be against me. Anyway, I have been looking for one card in particular for over the last 3 years and came away empty handed yesterday. I did have a nice conversation with Donald Spence who let me hold some Pop 1 PSA 8.5 and 9 Allen & Ginter's, Diamond Stars, and '33 Goudey's. Very nice man. Anyway, why can't I find a 1959 Topps #50 Willie Mays Sharp and Centered? I must have held 15 graded and ungraded copies and not one was on par. I even found a few PSA 8's but they were badly centered (for the grade). Is there something I don't know about this card? I been told some cards from the '59 set are impossible to find centered. Is this true? Sorry for the rant but I had my hopes up I would bring a beauty home after 8 hours of searching and came up short. I won’t rest until I find a NM or better 50/50 copy!

quikjam
Collecting: Mays-Banks-Aaron

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  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭
    The cards that get sold and flipped more often in the hobby [particularly in regards to high-grade HOF/star cards] are those that are relatively weak for the grade. Many collectors pay premiums for well-centered examples, and those more often end up in permanent collections than dealer inventory. When you commoditize a collectible based upon a numeric grade, the collectors end up paying premiums for relatively good examples, and the dealers end up trying to sell average / subpar examples for the going rate of a card.

    Make sense?

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  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,261 ✭✭✭✭
    Very tough card to get really nice.
  • lbcoach20lbcoach20 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭
    I paid over smr on this one and it is probably the best centered I've encountered. I know what you mean. - Scott

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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I paid over smr on this one and it is probably the best centered I've encountered. I know what you mean >>



    If that one is centered, I hate to see an OC one.....
  • jradke4jradke4 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭
    maybe its the scan but those bottom corners earned that Mays an 8?
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  • JHS5120JHS5120 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭
    Here's a nice one I found after a quick ebay search. I'd rather have this one then that off-center Mays any day. BTW not my auction

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  • SportscardcrozSportscardcroz Posts: 7


    << <i>Here's a nice one I found after a quick ebay search. I'd rather have this one then that off-center Mays any day. BTW not my auction

    Sorry if anyone was watching this. >>



    now that's a sharp card!
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