Mid grade beauties...

1951WheatiesPremium · May 23, 2021 4:43AM

I define this range as 3-5, personally, as many 6’s start to look pretty high end, at least to me and especially of late.

So, let’s see the cards you love that are between VG and EX...

lwehlers · May 23, 2021 7:04AM

really nice mantle auto!

GroceryRackPack · May 23, 2021 1:42PM

I dig that 68 Topps Posters Box Cut out--Yeah that's cool!

1951WheatiesPremium · May 23, 2021 1:52PM

@lwehlers

I thinks that’s the same as the Exhibit (batting) but with the original background.

@GroceryRackPack

Thanks; I made it myself!

1951WheatiesPremium · May 23, 2021 3:22PM

A few more - what about everyone else?

swish54 · May 23, 2021 4:02PM

I thought the Cal was an 8-9 when I sent it in...one of those oops I missed something somewhere.

JBrules · May 24, 2021 7:48AM

Here are a couple of my favorite mid-grade cards. Love mid-grade especially when they look like much better than assigned grade.
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1951WheatiesPremium · May 24, 2021 8:31AM

@JBrules

54T Aaron is one of the most beautiful cards I have ever seen.

Please DO NOT qualify it or tell me what’s wrong with it because it doesn’t matter. 😉

GREAT card!!!!

Congratulations

Chicago1976 · May 24, 2021 8:48AM

Great thread. Mid-grade, well-centered vintage is a good place to be.

emar · May 24, 2021 9:08AM

Tim, mid grade vintage is the best!

It's a museum thread....needs more Mickey

10 years in the making, my T206 Wall of Fame.
Johnson with a trace amount paper loss and Mathewson with tape on back, both present as mid-grade.

TGwynnCollector · May 24, 2021 9:14AM

One of my favorites

Chicago1976 · May 24, 2021 9:59AM

@emar said:
Tim, mid grade vintage is the best!

It's a museum thread....needs more Mickey

omg....great T206 collection! Colors really pop on those. Well done.

OAKESY25 · May 24, 2021 10:18AM

sometimes 5's look like 10's that is a scratch in the case on the right

1951WheatiesPremium · May 24, 2021 10:22AM

@emar - a mix, with Mantle.

Hope that will suffice!

emar · May 24, 2021 12:07PM

@Chicago1976
Thanks for the compliment!
IMO, t206 is the neatest, most colorful, and still somewhat underrated cardboard set.
It's a painstaking process waiting for your want items to get to market

bswhiten · May 24, 2021 6:09PM

Good post Tim. As you know, most of us Mick collectors without an unlimited budget rely on mid grade beauties Most of my set is 6 and less…

Bosox1976 · May 24, 2021 6:23PM

1982FootballWax · May 24, 2021 6:46PM

All purchased raw in the 90's. I still think #2 is a 5

1982FootballWax · May 24, 2021 6:53PM

These represent some of my earliest not current at the time card purchases. All purchased raw (of course) when I was a kid in the late 80's.

balco758 · May 25, 2021 4:01AM

Wow the Jackie R! Awesome.

Here are 3 of my favorites.

1951WheatiesPremium · May 25, 2021 4:22AM

These are two I wish I’d kept. They qualify; can’t keep it all. 😉

1951WheatiesPremium · May 25, 2021 4:35AM

This may be the only Mantle I have in a 6, @bswhiten . Bucked up for obvious reasons of player AND set.

And since any excuse to bring up the set is taken...😂

His two buddies from the set have pretty low pops and don’t surface too often; the Kramer is an “only graded example” 1 of 1 (for now).

Rofles · May 25, 2021 5:58AM

5.5 too high? Lol
These are two of my favorites in my collection; The fence busters may be my favorite card!

sayheywyo · May 25, 2021 7:33AM

Purchased raw. An odd ball, but a Babe.

mattyc_collection · May 25, 2021 9:02AM

balco758 · May 25, 2021 12:35PM

Gehrig is a beauty

jordangretzkyfan · May 25, 2021 12:43PM

Great mid-grade beauties gang! Here are a few centered favorites in my collection...

rexvos · May 25, 2021 3:01PM

Here are 2 48 Leafs for the pile

Vagabond · May 25, 2021 3:04PM

Some damn good cards posted in here so far.

graygator · May 25, 2021 4:05PM

charliehustle14 · May 25, 2021 7:13PM

I'm blessed to have a father who kept all his cards he collected in the 50s. Here's some mid grade stuff he's handed down to me.

NGS428 · May 25, 2021 7:24PM

I like them all!

dalstar66 · May 25, 2021 10:40PM

1966CUDA · May 26, 2021 8:04AM

Here are a few:

Chicago1976 · May 26, 2021 8:24AM

@1966CUDA said:
Here are a few:

Great cards. That 1954 Topps Ted Williams does not look like a "1" to me...lol. OK, I have to ask....is there something on the back that drove it down? Creases?

1951WheatiesPremium · May 26, 2021 8:26AM

@Chicago1976 said:

@1966CUDA said:
Here are a few:

Great cards. That 1954 Topps Ted Williams does not look like a "1" to me...lol. OK, I have to ask....is there something on the back that drove it down? Creases?

I think I see a pinhole between l and d in ‘outfield’

Chicago1976 · May 26, 2021 9:04AM

@1951WheatiesPremium said:

@Chicago1976 said:

@1966CUDA said:
Here are a few:

Great cards. That 1954 Topps Ted Williams does not look like a "1" to me...lol. OK, I have to ask....is there something on the back that drove it down? Creases?

I think I see a pinhole between l and d in ‘outfield’

Good eyes. Thanks @1951WheatiesPremium. That would do it.

1966CUDA · May 26, 2021 10:16AM

Yup... pin hole. Beautiful card otherwise.

judgebuck · May 26, 2021 10:28AM

1951WheatiesPremium · May 26, 2021 10:30AM

@1966CUDA said:
Yup... pin hole. Beautiful card.

Fixed that for you.

1951WheatiesPremium · May 26, 2021 10:32AM

I am the only one that puts on “You’re the Best” from The Karate Kid soundtrack in their head as they scroll down this page?

daltex · May 26, 2021 7:06PM

@1966CUDA said:
Here are a few:

There is something very wrong with the name "Frankie" Robinson. It makes "Bob" Clemente sound completely normal.

orioles93 · May 26, 2021 8:37PM

jackstraw · May 27, 2021 2:08AM

Nice fat and almost even borders and almost perfect centering!! My first set I collected so it's my favorite!!

1951WheatiesPremium · May 27, 2021 4:47AM

Having been used on his Bowman card, the photo image is standalone beautiful but also shows you how talented these card artists were, too.

jackstraw · May 27, 2021 5:05AM

judgebuck · May 27, 2021 6:23PM

Some of these aren't really beauties, and some aren't mid-grade. At any rate, here they are:

judgebuck · May 27, 2021 6:25PM

A couple more:

Tibor · May 27, 2021 11:35PM

@judgebuck Those are really nice. The Cobb especially. Any pre-war card is a treasure. 80+ years old. I wonder how many of us will reach those years and be welcomed the way we welcome and treasure those cards. Thanks for sharing 👍.

KendallCat · May 28, 2021 7:58AM

Great thread and some amazing cards. The 54 Aaron and the T206’s are from another planet!

1982FootballWax · May 28, 2021 9:46AM

One more

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