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What PSA graded card have you owned the longest?

shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,609 ✭✭✭✭
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I don't recall which one I got first, but I bought both of these in the late '98/early '99 time period, which coincides with when I joined eBay. How about you guys?

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"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."

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  • akuracy503akuracy503 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭
    Those are some nice classic flips. The font just looks right with the vintage cards.

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  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    I can never forget the first card I bought on eBay back on 4/20/2004 (according to my handy dandy spreadsheet documenting all my '62T purchases). I was starting an attempt to upgrade my raw 1962 Topps baseball set by replacing a written-on, well-worn Minnesota Twins team card. I remember being impressed with how beautiful the card looked in high grade and encased in the PSA holder. It inspired me to complete the whole set, including the green-tint variations, in PSA 7+. Here's that card from my Master Set Registry scan:

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  • BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,034 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mine is probably a 1955 Topps Hank Aaron PSA 4. It's not in the original holder (I used to free cards out of their slabs) but was later re-subbed and is still a 4.
    Daniel
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,609 ✭✭✭✭
    That Twins team card is a beauty, Mike. Looks like a nice bump candidate.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    I still remember buying the pack of Imperial cigs and pulling this card from the pack back in 1910.

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    Not really haha

    It is one of my favs though.

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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>I still remember buying the pack of Imperial cigs and pulling this card from the pack back in 1910.

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    You dirty rotten liar! I was there when ALFRED HARRIS bought the pack of cigarettes from the local store and pulled that card! You can't fool me!!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • scooter729scooter729 Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭
    The '55 Thorpe I had graded myself in the late '90s - I may have re-subbed at one point to get rid of the bad original font. The '54B Williams was one I subbed myself around the same time as well - still has the ugly font.

    Both cards have been in my collection ever since, and are a couple of the first PSA subs I ever made.

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  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My first PSA card was a 1987 Donruss Mark McGwire PSA 9, bought in January 2001 for $34.50 image

    Steve
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>


    You dirty rotten liar! I was there when ALFRED HARRIS bought the pack of cigarettes from the local store and pulled that card! You can't fool me!! >>



    Ha!

    True story. Trent (nightcrawler) gave this card to me raw as a Christmas gift some years back. He was looking for a copy that sir Alfred had not signed. Every copy that Trent came across apparently Alfred owned because he signed them all LOL!!

    Not sure if Trent ever found an unsigned copy or not.

    1994 Pro Line Live

    TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject

  • jay0791jay0791 Posts: 3,550 ✭✭✭✭
    I can remember when grading first kinda got started. Was not happy.

    Who needs this useless crap !!!!! I can grade cards w/o any smuck doing it for me.

    My first card was a psa 7 66 Sutton. very old label. I cracked it out

    Now I,m a psa junkie. Go figure !!!
    Collecting PSA... FB,BK,HK,and BB HOF RC sets
    1948-76 Topps FB Sets
    FB & BB HOF Player sets
    1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
  • dytch2220dytch2220 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭
    It's not impressively old, but this is the first graded card I ever purchased. I stopped collecting trading cards probably around the age of 15 or 16 before grading existed. Last year I watched the ESPN 30:30 documentary "You Don't Know Bo" and started reminiscing about my childhood and how much I loved Bo Jackson. Then I remembered having this card stolen from me and how upset I was over it. I decided to hop on eBay to look for a nice copy of the card and discovered graded cards in the process. I needed a GEM MINT 10 for sure!! This was July 2013 and I haven't looked back. I have close to 400 PSA graded cards in my collection now with many times that in raw cards. I'm hooked! Now if I can just get my girlfriend to understand. :/

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  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,995 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can't remember the exact year. I'm thinking 91 or so. I picked up a 1958 Ed Mathews All-Star card in Cleveland.
    Collecting 1960 Topps Baseball in PSA 8
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    Ralph

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