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How to go through a MASSIVE collection?

Spartcom5Spartcom5 Posts: 397 ✭✭✭
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So awhile back I acquired a huge multi thousand card collection and am now just thinking about the best way to go through it and pull the good cards out. They aren't in any specific order and there is baseball, football, and basketball. Mostly 1990s I think would need to look again. What would you guys do with such a task? Catalog every card on a computer? Are there any price guides out there? I am at a loss her so any help would be appreciated!

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  • slimiesslimies Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I just take my time.. i just got an 1800 baseball card collection arrive today ,and am still going through my 500 and 2500 card collection got from a newspaper ad and ebay, i buy lots binders and card sleeves and go through em carefully

  • SdubSdub Posts: 736 ✭✭✭

    1990's?

    • First, get a sense of the quantity and massive amount of hours to review each card
    • Second, find a representation of the quality by reviewing random cards in random boxes
    • Third, know your HOF's and low pop's for those years
    • Lastly, when your done, throw them all in a fireplace and heat your house for 2 days.
    Collecting PSA 9's from 1970-1977. Raw 9's from 72-77. Raw 10's from '78-'83.
    Collecting Unopened from '72-'83; mostly BBCE certified boxes/cases/racks.
    Prefer to buy in bulk.
  • swish54swish54 Posts: 707 ✭✭✭✭

    I'd start by sorting by sport. Then pick the sport you know most about and start pulling out stars of the era/hof guys. I find my self going through a box multiple times and seemingly find stuff that I overlooked the time before. With that many cards, just start pulling out stuff you know and so on...process of elimination.

  • Panama Mutiny (Formerly lawyer05) Panama Mutiny (Formerly lawyer05) Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭✭

    i cant even go through my collection let alone some one else's, geez

    i COLLECT THESE
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Panama
  • slimiesslimies Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭✭✭

    most sports card stores also have price guides so can price them once you get the collection organised, also get lots of card sleeves..xd

  • PiggsPiggs Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭

    "Mostly 1990s I think would need to look again". You have my blessings.

  • Spartcom5Spartcom5 Posts: 397 ✭✭✭
    edited December 23, 2017 12:14AM

    Pulled out the collection and so far pretty disappointing. The best cards so far are a Gold Label Brett Favre and John Elway. My friend gave me a Beckett monthly for January 2018 and most 99% of the cards aren't even listed in it. Only one box in. The person who had these before me was a collector, the cards are in great if not perfect condition, he must have pulled anything good but oh well it was free!! All the cards are mid to late 1990s and absolutely no baseball.... just football and basketball.

    As far as I understand if a card isn't in the Beckett monthly that means it isn't actively traded and therefor isn't worth anything maybe a few cents? That's what I was told at my card shop?

  • Spartcom5Spartcom5 Posts: 397 ✭✭✭

    Honestly, I'm just hoping to find one card worth grading to add to my collection as something I found. Did the same thing for coins, hoping to replicate here on sports cards!

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