<< <i>Now, thats "it" for you? you can now walk away from cards and be satisfied?
i know you're box of cards is absolutely amazing, but if you can now walk away, you're will power is amazing Sir! >>
TBP, I can honestly say I am content. This is the first project I have done where I wasnt thinking about how much money I could make off of it from a future sale. I have had some nice graded registry sets, but I always thought of them as an insurance policy so to speak. If there were some high priced card(s) I wanted, I knew I had some equity in my registry sets. So, I would sell them to fund new purchases. Its not like that with this box. I built this for pure enjoyment, not for re-sale. In fact if I were to sell it, I would take a loss on it since I cracked alot of them out of thier slabs. So...needless to say, I'll have this box forever. I thumb through this box much more often than I did my graded sets.
Bob, First of all congradulations on your project. I know this gave you satisfaction and joy picking and choosing what cards you wanted to collect. I know you had some regrets on selling your 1955 topps set but now you seem truly happy with your raw card purchases. Something to be very proud of indeed. Gary
<< <i>Now, thats "it" for you? you can now walk away from cards and be satisfied?
i know you're box of cards is absolutely amazing, but if you can now walk away, you're will power is amazing Sir! >>
TBP, I can honestly say I am content. This is the first project I have done where I wasnt thinking about how much money I could make off of it from a future sale. I have had some nice graded registry sets, but I always thought of them as an insurance policy so to speak. If there were some high priced card(s) I wanted, I knew I had some equity in my registry sets. So, I would sell them to fund new purchases. Its not like that with this box. I built this for pure enjoyment, not for re-sale. In fact if I were to sell it, I would take a loss on it since I cracked alot of them out of thier slabs. So...needless to say, I'll have this box forever. I thumb through this box much more often than I did my graded sets. >>
i tip my cap to you!
The advantage to having them slabbed and then removing them yourself is that there is no doubt that they are authentic, and for me, that is a strong concern when buying raw cards.
Once again congrats on Sticking to your Focus and achieving your goal. it's been a pleasure reading this thread, i cant imagine how great it feels to be able to flip through the cards whenever you wish to
Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
Thanks for the kind words guys. I was thinking I could just put the box in my safe and let it collect dust, pull it out one day and go through it. But...everytime I open the safe for something, I find myself not being able to resist looking through it.
Bob, thanks for providing the link to get this post back on the front page. Your project motivated me to do the same thing. I'm buying mid-grade, centered HOFers and other notables and plan on displaying them the same way. Really like buying mid-grade graded, they present so well raw, they're not very expensive and with graded, you basically know what you're getting.
Collecting Topps, Philadelphia and Kellogg's from 1964-1989
<< <i>Bob, thanks for providing the link to get this post back on the front page. Your project motivated me to do the same thing. I'm buying mid-grade, centered HOFers and other notables and plan on displaying them the same way. Really like buying mid-grade graded, they present so well raw, they're not very expensive and with graded, you basically know what you're getting. >>
I've been doing the same thing, although I've had to stop for awhile as I'm still paying off my last purchase. But it's a fun project to do.
Chris My small collection Want List: '61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7 Cardinal T206 cards Adam Wainwright GU Jersey
What a great way to collect. It must be nice to pull out that vintage box every few months and look through it and maybe add a few HOF'ers or commons to it.
Sorry for the bad pic. I cut off the border on the Killebrew with my less than perfect photography skills. Anyway... here are a few more I added to the box. The 59 Mays and 58 Reese were both in PSA 5 slabs. The Mays is beautiful for the grade with perfect centering. Looks like an easy 6. The Reese is just the opposite with centering issues and I found a spider wrinkle on it too. The Killer rookie and the Ashburn/Mays cards were purchased raw.
I have a card enroute that should be here today. Its a card I have been wanting to add to my box since I started this project. Its not a HOFer, but its a pricey common. I haven't found a decent looking lower grade copy that presents well until now. I will post a scan of it in the PSA slab when it arrives, then....its being freed from the clutches of sealed plastic.
It has arrived. Great eye appeal for a 3. With this being a 50s Topps box, I thought it was only right to have card #1 from the debut set. Andy shall be set free after dinner.
What an awesome collection! In today's "whats it worth" hobby, it's nice to know there are still a few true collectors out there! As someone who prefers to collect raw, Ive freed many cards myself for my collection and it seems many people simply can't understand why one would do this. I would be curious as to how many cards in your great collection came from "Crackouts"? What was the "biggest" card you set free?
Ahhh, Old School collectors! The only one's that will be left in the hobby when all cards crash and hold no monatry value.
<< <i>Will you be moving on to the sixties decade? >>
John, Nah...because then if I do a 60s box, Ill end up doing a 70s box or a Bowman box etc. I got rid of my entire collection with the exception of this box and it has been great not having a huge inventory of cards. I have been doing upgrades to this box here and there, but I have no intention of expanding my collection past this box. I have achieved my goal of really enjoying my collection. I don't have to worry if I drop a card on the floor, or being cautious about taking them out of a top loader. These cards were meant to be handled.
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Being able to hold and handle the cards if you choose to raises the coolness factor to the "DOPE!" setting.
Love it!
Now, thats "it" for you? you can now walk away from cards and be satisfied?
i know you're box of cards is absolutely amazing, but if you can now walk away, you're will power is amazing Sir!
WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
<< <i>Now, thats "it" for you? you can now walk away from cards and be satisfied?
i know you're box of cards is absolutely amazing, but if you can now walk away, you're will power is amazing Sir! >>
TBP, I can honestly say I am content. This is the first project I have done where I wasnt thinking about how much money I could make off of it from a future sale. I have had some nice graded registry sets, but I always thought of them as an insurance policy so to speak. If there were some high priced card(s) I wanted, I knew I had some equity in my registry sets. So, I would sell them to fund new purchases.
Its not like that with this box. I built this for pure enjoyment, not for re-sale. In fact if I were to sell it, I would take a loss on it since I cracked alot of them out of thier slabs.
So...needless to say, I'll have this box forever. I thumb through this box much more often than I did my graded sets.
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
First of all congradulations on your project. I know this gave you satisfaction and joy picking and choosing what cards you wanted to collect. I know you had some regrets on selling your 1955 topps set but now you seem truly happy with your raw card purchases. Something to be very proud of indeed. Gary
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<< <i>Now, thats "it" for you? you can now walk away from cards and be satisfied?
i know you're box of cards is absolutely amazing, but if you can now walk away, you're will power is amazing Sir! >>
TBP, I can honestly say I am content. This is the first project I have done where I wasnt thinking about how much money I could make off of it from a future sale. I have had some nice graded registry sets, but I always thought of them as an insurance policy so to speak. If there were some high priced card(s) I wanted, I knew I had some equity in my registry sets. So, I would sell them to fund new purchases.
Its not like that with this box. I built this for pure enjoyment, not for re-sale. In fact if I were to sell it, I would take a loss on it since I cracked alot of them out of thier slabs.
So...needless to say, I'll have this box forever. I thumb through this box much more often than I did my graded sets. >>
i tip my cap to you!
The advantage to having them slabbed and then removing them yourself is that there is no doubt that they are authentic, and for me, that is a strong concern when buying raw cards.
Once again congrats on Sticking to your Focus and achieving your goal. it's been a pleasure reading this thread, i cant imagine how great it feels to be able to flip through the cards whenever you wish to
WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
"Molon Labe"
I was thinking I could just put the box in my safe and let it collect dust, pull it out one day and go through it.
But...everytime I open the safe for something, I find myself not being able to resist looking through it.
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
<< <i>Bob, thanks for providing the link to get this post back on the front page. Your project motivated me to do the same thing. I'm buying mid-grade, centered HOFers and other notables and plan on displaying them the same way. Really like buying mid-grade graded, they present so well raw, they're not very expensive and with graded, you basically know what you're getting. >>
I've been doing the same thing, although I've had to stop for awhile as I'm still paying off my last purchase. But it's a fun project to do.
My small collection
Want List:
'61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7
Cardinal T206 cards
Adam Wainwright GU Jersey
What a great way to collect. It must be nice to pull out
that vintage box every few months and look through it
and maybe add a few HOF'ers or commons to it.
I have a card enroute that should be here today. Its a card I have been wanting to add to my box since I started this project. Its not a HOFer, but its a pricey common. I haven't found a decent looking lower grade copy that presents well until now. I will post a scan of it in the PSA slab when it arrives, then....its being freed from the clutches of sealed plastic.
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
It has arrived. Great eye appeal for a 3. With this being a 50s Topps box, I thought it was only right to have card #1 from the debut set. Andy shall be set free after dinner.
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
As someone who prefers to collect raw, Ive freed many cards myself for my collection and it seems many people simply can't understand why one would do this.
I would be curious as to how many cards in your great collection came from "Crackouts"? What was the "biggest" card you set free?
Ahhh, Old School collectors! The only one's that will be left in the hobby when all cards crash and hold no monatry value.
Will you be moving on to the sixties decade?
John
<< <i>Will you be moving on to the sixties decade? >>
John, Nah...because then if I do a 60s box, Ill end up doing a 70s box or a Bowman box etc. I got rid of my entire collection with the exception of this box and it has been great not having a huge inventory of cards. I have been doing upgrades to this box here and there, but I have no intention of expanding my collection past this box.
I have achieved my goal of really enjoying my collection. I don't have to worry if I drop a card on the floor, or being cautious about taking them out of a top loader. These cards were meant to be handled.
MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
That Mays is a nice looking card for sure
Needs'
1972 Football-9's high#'s
1965 Football-8's
1958 Topps FB-7-8
That Mays is a nice looking card for sure
Needs'
1972 Football-9's high#'s
1965 Football-8's
1958 Topps FB-7-8