@gameusedhoop said:
Just about the nicest 4 that i've ever seen.
about five to ten years ago that might have been a psa 6 or 7 grade.
I could see it as a 7. And part of the reason I say that is if I saw it 10 years ago as a 7, I probably would want to buy it. Centering is great. Corners a little touched but not horrible by old standards. Then 75 can have terrible print issues and the ones on this 4 dont seem so bad. Congrats.
Looking closely at the bottom corners, I dont see them as touched. If you look from the back, they are fairly sharp.
So the "missing" blue corner parts viewed from the front might be considered more in line with paper or print loss, dropping the grade a bunch. And there is a black print line running top to bottom on the front right side. The card looks a lot better in the photo above vs PSAs scan. Maybe not a 7, but a 5 or 6 on a good day, plus this card is high scrutiny.
I have a winner from REA tonight (8/16)...centered better than my PSA-6.5 which I recently sold to help fund this very recently graded copy...and oh yeah, it's headed to MBA for diamond certification since I confirmed it is a diamond candidate before auction closed...
While not strictly AUGUST - with shipping and authentication - these actully fall into July and August...
Amazingly, recently, several nice 1965 Embossed examples hit the market and I dove in -
No exaggeration - I haven't seen any "needed" PSA 8 examples hit the market for like 18 months to 2 years (and ('ve been looking)
Down to 5 8's needed (with 8 "7" upgrades) needed.
Here are the additions:
Steve Saldutti sjjs28@comcast.net Collector of Baseball Hall of Famer's and Stars, 1965 Embossed, 1968 Topps Game and 1969 Topps Decals Registered Sets: 1965 Embossed, 1968 Topps Game, 1969 Topps Decals
I had an insane yard sale day this weekend, picking up a collection of T206 and E95 tobacco cards that I posted another thread about. I’m looking into getting them professionally removed from a backing board.
My other finds were also great and unexpected. Bought a few huge tubs of cards basically sight unseen and got a ton of junk wax era fun cards, a ton of Jordan’s, and what ended up being 75 signed golf cards headlined by 2 Arnold Palmers!
Finally on this one!! Started the 74 Kellogg's Master set back in July 2010. I hadn't seen a graded or ungraded variation of Bell since I started the set. With only 12 graded I'm tickled pink to have it. Now if I could only find the Santo Cubs variation, I can complete the set. Unfortunately, all the Santo auctions for the Cubs variation I've seen over the years have been mis-identified by PSA, including one of the 3 PSA 10's. All should have been White Sox version. Hopefully it doesn't take me 10+ years to find a Santo!!
Matt
Finally had the chance to upgrade my Joe Thornton black diamond gold rookie to PSA 10. 1996 Black Diamond gold is my absolute favourite parallel set of the 90's. Just 50 copies made and only 5 10's for Jumbo Joe.
Opened what I thought was a complete 87 Topps set (it wasn’t) and an 87 vending box that was probably already searched that I had lying around. The hits look pretty good. No Big Mac.
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Looking closely at the bottom corners, I dont see them as touched. If you look from the back, they are fairly sharp.
So the "missing" blue corner parts viewed from the front might be considered more in line with paper or print loss, dropping the grade a bunch. And there is a black print line running top to bottom on the front right side. The card looks a lot better in the photo above vs PSAs scan. Maybe not a 7, but a 5 or 6 on a good day, plus this card is high scrutiny.
I have a winner from REA tonight (8/16)...centered better than my PSA-6.5 which I recently sold to help fund this very recently graded copy...and oh yeah, it's headed to MBA for diamond certification since I confirmed it is a diamond candidate before auction closed...
While not strictly AUGUST - with shipping and authentication - these actully fall into July and August...
Amazingly, recently, several nice 1965 Embossed examples hit the market and I dove in -
No exaggeration - I haven't seen any "needed" PSA 8 examples hit the market for like 18 months to 2 years (and ('ve been looking)
Down to 5 8's needed (with 8 "7" upgrades) needed.
Here are the additions:
sjjs28@comcast.net
Collector of Baseball Hall of Famer's and Stars, 1965 Embossed, 1968 Topps Game and 1969 Topps Decals
Registered Sets: 1965 Embossed, 1968 Topps Game, 1969 Topps Decals
I had an insane yard sale day this weekend, picking up a collection of T206 and E95 tobacco cards that I posted another thread about. I’m looking into getting them professionally removed from a backing board.
My other finds were also great and unexpected. Bought a few huge tubs of cards basically sight unseen and got a ton of junk wax era fun cards, a ton of Jordan’s, and what ended up being 75 signed golf cards headlined by 2 Arnold Palmers!
Finally on this one!! Started the 74 Kellogg's Master set back in July 2010. I hadn't seen a graded or ungraded variation of Bell since I started the set. With only 12 graded I'm tickled pink to have it. Now if I could only find the Santo Cubs variation, I can complete the set. Unfortunately, all the Santo auctions for the Cubs variation I've seen over the years have been mis-identified by PSA, including one of the 3 PSA 10's. All should have been White Sox version. Hopefully it doesn't take me 10+ years to find a Santo!!
Matt
Finally had the chance to upgrade my Joe Thornton black diamond gold rookie to PSA 10. 1996 Black Diamond gold is my absolute favourite parallel set of the 90's. Just 50 copies made and only 5 10's for Jumbo Joe.
-Nathanael
Sharing cards I have been purchasing the past year or so. Still buying graded here and there.
POP 5 --- PSA 10
At one time - one of the toughest sigs in sports - really nice Chris.
The card I received:
The card when I wondered what the Jersey #'d Yu would look like as an orange mini by itself:
I know a lot of collectors don't care for the horizontal cards but I really enjoy them!
Picked up 2 very nicely centered 2nd year OPC's of the Great One.
Opened what I thought was a complete 87 Topps set (it wasn’t) and an 87 vending box that was probably already searched that I had lying around. The hits look pretty good. No Big Mac.
I'm quite sure I am the only person in the world who collects these In The Game cards but I love them autographed!!!
Recent signing from Fanatics Fest.