General Yammering
07/08/06 02:26 PersonalGeneral Yammering
Here's my George Kelly.
It's a very nice card - but clearly has some corner issues, and perhaps a little staining or marking along the top border. The back appears clean but could have some very light staining; it's tough to tell inside the slab. But a card like this, if I were to look at it outside the holder, I might call it a VG-EX card.
I'm very curious about the grading on these. There are very few high-grade examples graded by SGC or PSA, and I simply haven't seen enough of them to be a good judge. Like I said, I have four out of 60 cards in the set.
Unfortunately I have managed to locate three more high-grade examples, but the seller is asking, in my opinion, WAY too much money. Like more than $400 each, for second-tier HOFers.
So if I search for a couple of months, latch onto the Speaker, then search a few more months and find three overpriced HOFers, is this realistically a set that can be completed? A couple of weeks ago I passed on a lower-grade, raw Ray Schalk because I thought it wasn't up to the standard I had set for myself on this issue. Was that a mistake?
I know it's important to stay patient when building a tough set, and I'm most definitely not thinking of abandoning this quest, but I am most definitely considering starting a more mainstream set just to keep myself occupied.
It's a very nice card - but clearly has some corner issues, and perhaps a little staining or marking along the top border. The back appears clean but could have some very light staining; it's tough to tell inside the slab. But a card like this, if I were to look at it outside the holder, I might call it a VG-EX card.
I'm very curious about the grading on these. There are very few high-grade examples graded by SGC or PSA, and I simply haven't seen enough of them to be a good judge. Like I said, I have four out of 60 cards in the set.
Unfortunately I have managed to locate three more high-grade examples, but the seller is asking, in my opinion, WAY too much money. Like more than $400 each, for second-tier HOFers.
So if I search for a couple of months, latch onto the Speaker, then search a few more months and find three overpriced HOFers, is this realistically a set that can be completed? A couple of weeks ago I passed on a lower-grade, raw Ray Schalk because I thought it wasn't up to the standard I had set for myself on this issue. Was that a mistake?
I know it's important to stay patient when building a tough set, and I'm most definitely not thinking of abandoning this quest, but I am most definitely considering starting a more mainstream set just to keep myself occupied.
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