diamond matchbooks
jtdeible
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I see PSA has a few in there pop report am I to assume that they consider the factory fold on the spine of the matchbook a crease? If that's the case it's too bad this is a market they could make some real loot on if they were to grade them constant with matchbook standards. The diamond matchbooks have a lot going for them. As for baseball the silver boarder set is mammoth if you consider all the color variation. For football it's pretty much one of vary few sets available from the 30's. With hockey it has big stars Howie Morenz and Eddie Shore. Finally it would even open up the non-sports market with all the movie star matchbooks.
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They call me "Pack the Ripper"
I have quite a few unfolded/unstapled/unused U1 silver border baseball, and U3 baseball matchbooks, ....known as "flats"
wonder what they'd grade, or if they would be considered "proofs" ???
<< <i>I see PSA has a few in there pop report am I to assume that they consider the factory fold on the spine of the matchbook a crease? If that's the case it's too bad this is a market they could make some real loot on if they were to grade them constant with matchbook standards. The diamond matchbooks have a lot going for them. As for baseball the silver boarder set is mammoth if you consider all the color variation. For football it's pretty much one of vary few sets available from the 30's. With hockey it has big stars Howie Morenz and Eddie Shore. Finally it would even open up the non-sports market with all the movie star matchbooks. >>
Anyone get some of these graded?
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Collecting: Topps 1952-79, Bowman 1952-55, OPC 1965-71, and Pre-War White Sox cards
I've had some graded by SGC and BVG as 3's and then tried crossover w/ minimum grade being a 3. None came back in PSA holders. These are super tough. You don't have to worry a whole lot about the creases as they'll be allowed up to as high as about a grade of 6, but you are going to have to find them without staple holes in the striker if you want a high grade. Also, all the TPG's look intensely at the striker for any wear on it at all, and that plays a big roll in the grading too. Really their baseline for a high grade one, like 7 or higher, is that it was taken from printing without being completed, before folding at the creases, before the striker was added to the cardboard and also before the staple was put in for the matches.
Here is one PSA 7.5 baseball example and also one PSA 8 hockey example (even though the hockey one is in the holder upside down from standard placement).
They seem to have more relaxed grading standards for the 1980 Liberty matchbooks though. I see those consistently graded higher in similar condition as compared with the various 1930's Diamond sets. Look at this one for example. I don't think it had ever been folded along the pre-set crease lines but it did get stapled, has a striker added to it, and the striker looks like it has a bit of wear. I'm thinking no higher than a 6 on this one.
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
<< <i>Here's a couple that I have in my Harmon Killebrew master set.
Nice looking examples you have there, congrats! By the looks of them, what you have is matchbooks that were stapled and had striker added but don't appear to have been folded at the pre-set crease lines yet, which would explain the relatively high grades.
Those are crazy cool Killebrews. Thank you for sharing!
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