My best "buy the card not the holder"

paleocards

I've wanted this card for the last several years. I think it's Grove's most significant card and it's in the Top 250 Sportscards registry set. As the #1 card in the set, it's almost never seen without a lot of print, dark toned borders and dull colors, so when PWCC listed this PSA 4 with bright white borders, vibrant colors and hardly any print I just had to have it.

Yes, I spent nearly $200 over SMR but compare my 4 to the latest PSA 5 and PSA 6 that have sold.

My PSA 4 ($493)



PSA 5 (sold by PWCC in same auction as mine for $728.99); PSA 6 sold on eBay for $942.78 in March

slum22

Great card. Your 4 definitely tops the 5 and 6 for eye appeal. Will you try for a bump?

MULLINS5

Love that 4!

Dboneesq

Are you going to send it back to PSA to correct the flip? It's a '35, right?

BTW ... you may have paid $200.00 over SMR, but you didn't pay nearly that much over VCP. AWESOME BUY!!!!!

Here are all the ones listed since 2012:

10/5/14 eBay Auction | Image prewarcardcollector d***l 23 $493.00
2/22/14 eBay Image foldcardman c***4 11 $376.00
2/10/13 eBay Image imahorn n***k 20 $436.11
4/1/12 eBay Image davidbvintage d***f 3 $493.00

mattyc_collection

Your card is the best of the three pictured, hands down; the highest grade is not always the best card, and I'd pay more for yours over the other two any day.
Fantastic eye and buy, my friend. Congrats, you must be pumped!

mtcards

The 6 is grossly overgraded. I sent in some 48 Leaf a few years back that looked better than that and they all got 4's and 5's

KendallCat

By far your card is the nicest of the three - nice pickup!

Stone193

Best of the lot - agree.

DanBessette

<< <i>Great card. Your 4 definitely tops the 5 and 6 for eye appeal. >>



+1

jay0791

Great card.

I'll take that 4 over the other 2 all day.

paleocards

Thanks guys.

Doug: It is a '34. It lists his 1933 W-L record on the back and has the 1934 copyright.

Dboneesq

<< <i>Thanks guys. Doug: It is a '34. It lists his 1933 W-L record on the back and has the 1934 copyright. >>


AH, OK. I was not familiar with the set. Just looked it up and saw that it's listed as "1934-1936 Diamond Stars". Since the others you list show "1935" on the Flip, does that mean the cards were printed in all three years with the same picture? Since the "GUIDES" don't differentiate between years, are all three years valued the same? If so, seems a bit of an oddity.

DanBessette

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<< <i>Thanks guys. Doug: It is a '34. It lists his 1933 W-L record on the back and has the 1934 copyright. >>


AH, OK. I was not familiar with the set. Just looked it up and saw that it's listed as "1934-1936 Diamond Stars". Since the others you list show "1935" on the Flip, does that mean the cards were printed in all three years with the same picture? Since the "GUIDES" don't differentiate between years, are all three years valued the same? If so, seems a bit of an oddity. >>



Some cards have variations and correspondingly these have different prices based on scarcity. My Diamond Stars card is a 1935 because of the team shown on the uniform. Even within a year, there can be variations in the color type used on the back. Not familiar with other guides, but if you look in the Beckett Almanac.... yes, the cards are lumped together under one "set" heading, but you'll see distinctions like (35G) next to the individual cards. (G is for green type on back).

Baez578

Great job!

BaltimoreYankee

Very nice card! There are bargains to be had in lower grades. I know from my own collection that grades 4 through 6 can be interchangeable and all over the place. I have some 4's that are better than some of my 6's