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MantlesMantraMantlesMantra Posts: 154
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What do you do with the cards that you don't send in for grading?

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  • 3 under par3 under par Posts: 110 ✭
    It depends what I opened. junk wax gets tossed, 70's - mid 80's goes in a box for set building
  • waxman2745waxman2745 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭
    couple things I have found:

    1. I will try to build a raw set if it's possible to do from a single wax box.
    example: Fleer basketball or any other set that has a small number of cards (132) compared to the total cards in the wax box.

    2. Use them as "bookends" when storing a raw set. If I have 500 cards out of the 660 set, I will typically put 88 Donruss or 90 Topps or other junk to fill the gap.
    Adam
    buying O-Pee-Chee (OPC) baseball
  • MrNearMintMrNearMint Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭
    Sell nice, raw copies on eBay.
  • MantlesMantraMantlesMantra Posts: 154
    OK all good answers. What about storage for when you save them?
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have accumulated a lot of 1970s baseball cards over the years as a result of pack rips. I store the better cards in CS1s and super vault boxes. I also put together raw sets in pocket pages inside binders in numerical order. The way OC cards I store loose in those hard plastic 150 ct snap tight cases or long cardboard boxes.


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • thebaseballcardkidthebaseballcardkid Posts: 432 ✭
    They just sit on a shelf in a puddle of my tears.
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