Let's see your Gretzky Rookies

Options
maddux69
maddux69 Posts: 2,170 ✭✭✭✭✭
in Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum

I broke my PSA 7 out for some time off for good behavior and to get a good scan. Here is a little math problem a la the great one! In my eyes, the PSA 4 has the best eye appeal out of the three.

Jason

eBay Store


Greg Maddux #1 Master SetGreg Maddux #2 Basic Set

Comments

  • jackstraw
    jackstraw Posts: 3,889 ✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Tough to say! The card design makes cards that are off centered not look so bad but your 7 has a centered oil drip which the 4 doesn't and that makes the 7 look nicer to me.....

    Collector Focus

    ON ITS WAY TO NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658
  • Jayman1982
    Jayman1982 Posts: 469 ✭✭✭
    Options

    That's a beautiful 7, I too like it the best. Blue border is blemish free, nice rough cuts all round and really great looking OPC corners, it screams 8 if the back is as nice as the front

  • balco758
    balco758 Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    My 6.

  • maddux69
    maddux69 Posts: 2,170 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Very nice 6 @balco758 !

    @Jayman1982 The back is nice and it is a first print run as well :)

    Jason

    eBay Store


    Greg Maddux #1 Master SetGreg Maddux #2 Basic Set
  • professorpuck
    professorpuck Posts: 148 ✭✭✭
    Options

    FWIW, the 'blue lines = first print run' concept is a contested idea. IMHO, the evidence for it is quite thin.

    It may still be desirable, but that is more a function of collector groupthink than objective status.

  • 80sOPC
    80sOPC Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    What a beauty!

    @Goldenage said:

  • 80sOPC
    80sOPC Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    What a beauty!

    @Goldenage said:

  • mrburns443
    mrburns443 Posts: 203 ✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Here's my 7

  • burghman
    burghman Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @Goldenage said:

    That’s one hell of a 5!

    Jim

  • rmh111985
    rmh111985 Posts: 408 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Great looking Gretzky's. I sold my Topps PSA 6 two years ago, and have regretted it ever since. Especially now with what its worth.

    Main collecting focus is Patrick Roy playing days 85/86-02/03, expect 1/1, National/All-Star stamped cards.PC Completion: 2,723/2,987; 91.16% My Patrick Roy PC Website:https://proy33collector.weebly.com

  • Goldenage
    Goldenage Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @burghman said:

    @Goldenage said:

    That’s one hell of a 5!

    It actually has the best color I’ve ever seen on any opc Gretzky rookie ever. The card is a strong PSA 6, but the color on it can not be beat. Not photo enhanced at all.

  • Goldenage
    Goldenage Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    If anyone is looking for a nice cheap one, I have a beautiful PSA 2 in the June 15th PWCC auction. The centering is perfect, but it has a slight wrinkle on the yellow on front that doesnt go to the back. A beautiful card for the grade. No creases.

  • Goldenage
    Goldenage Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    That is a great looking nine.

  • tjhorn92
    tjhorn92 Posts: 42 ✭✭✭
    Options

    Love this thread! I opened this as a kid and I’ve had it the last 40+ years.

  • blurryface
    blurryface Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    not my highest, but certainly my favorite. especially since he is a ud exclusive:

  • saraceno21
    saraceno21 Posts: 49 ✭✭
    Options

    Here is mine:

  • jordangretzkyfan
    jordangretzkyfan Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @saraceno21 said:
    Here is mine:

    Nice GOATs!

  • blurryface
    blurryface Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    heck of an entrance! welcome to the forums.

  • ahopkins
    ahopkins Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Don't hate me (or throw me out 😆) because it's SGC. The rest of the set that accompanies this card is raw and NM.

    Andy

  • RobinBaseballCard18
    RobinBaseballCard18 Posts: 5 ✭
    Options


    Can someone tell me the best way to get this graded?

  • RobinBaseballCard18
    RobinBaseballCard18 Posts: 5 ✭
    Options

    I'm sorry. I miss-posted what I intended to post. But can someone tell me the best way to get this card graded? As you can see, it has never been put into plastic. It's been in a box for over 40 years.

    Thank you.

  • Jayman1982
    Jayman1982 Posts: 469 ✭✭✭
    Options

    @RobinBaseballCard18 said:
    I'm sorry. I miss-posted what I intended to post. But can someone tell me the best way to get this card graded? As you can see, it has never been put into plastic. It's been in a box for over 40 years.

    Thank you.

    I'd say send it Super Express with a declared value of $4999 and have it graded for $300.

    It looks like an 8, maybe a 7.

  • RobinBaseballCard18
    RobinBaseballCard18 Posts: 5 ✭
    Options

    what do you think is wrong with it?

  • Jayman1982
    Jayman1982 Posts: 469 ✭✭✭
    Options

    @RobinBaseballCard18 said:
    what do you think is wrong with it?

    Not much wrong with it for sure, it's a beauty card! Without having it in hand to examine it's hard to be sure, but the top two corners look lightly touched (even the bottom left could have some white showing from a touch as well, hard to say for sure) and that would probably be what grades this as an 8 max. This is of course barring any major surface defects like a scratch, crease or dent not showing on the scan...

  • RobinBaseballCard18
    RobinBaseballCard18 Posts: 5 ✭
    Options

    Thank you for your comments. For your information, it was probably touched no more than 5 times about 40 years ago, put in a the original topps dispenser, put into another box, and then stayed in that box for about 40 years. When I found the box, opened it, and when I touched it, it was with white cloth gloves. I've touched it only about 4 times.

    Thanks again.

  • jasp7735
    jasp7735 Posts: 35 ✭✭✭
    Options

    It was a bvg 5.5

  • threeofsix
    threeofsix Posts: 716 ✭✭✭✭
    Options

    I know...I know....mine doesn't REALLY count...but I thought I'd share it anyway (in honor of the GREAT ONE)....

    The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.
    Live long, and prosper.
  • Ahmanfan
    Ahmanfan Posts: 4,513 ✭✭✭✭
    Options

    @RobinBaseballCard18 said:
    Thank you for your comments. For your information, it was probably touched no more than 5 times about 40 years ago, put in a the original topps dispenser, put into another box, and then stayed in that box for about 40 years. When I found the box, opened it, and when I touched it, it was with white cloth gloves. I've touched it only about 4 times.

    Thanks again.

    It doesn't matter how many times a card has been touched. What matters is the condition of a card. Many cards come directly off the press that would grade PSA 6, 7, 8 ... Off center, miscut, surface bubble/wrinkle, fisheye/print lines (as your Gretzky has on the top and left hand borders), etc. You have a nice card, but not a 6 figure card.

    If there is someone close to you who can assist with protecting the card properly and submitting to PSA who has experience and expertise, I would enlist their assistance at this time.

    Collecting
    HOF SIGNED FOOTBALL RCS
  • MrTim
    MrTim Posts: 16 ✭✭
    Options

    Just graded and on a local truck out for delivery today: https://www.psacard.com/cert/63150045

  • 80sOPC
    80sOPC Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Low grade wayner:

    image

  • RobinBaseballCard18
    RobinBaseballCard18 Posts: 5 ✭
    Options

    To Ahmanfan :smile:

    Thank you for your comments.

  • NeverSawMantle
    NeverSawMantle Posts: 68 ✭✭
    edited September 2, 2021 5:45AM
    Options

    This is mine. Came back 3.5. Should I crack and resubmit elsewhere? Corners are great, but have a little frosting. Was thinking a 5 at least, a possible 6, and hoping for a 7.

  • woodstock2
    woodstock2 Posts: 88 ✭✭✭
    Options

    @MrTim said:
    Just graded and on a local truck out for delivery today: https://www.psacard.com/cert/63150045

    Just took a look. Wow, what a beautiful 7. Congrats!

  • jackstraw
    jackstraw Posts: 3,889 ✭✭✭✭
    Options

    Collector Focus

    ON ITS WAY TO NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658

Categories