So You Wanna Grade Your Cards? Here are the Basics.
Here’s an FAQ on how to have your cards professionally graded How can you have your cards graded? It’s a popular question being asked more and more by collectors [...]
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Heritage to Auction PSA’s Highest-Graded 1933 Goudey Set
The top PSA 1933 Goudey baseball card set will be auctioned in January A short while back, the highest-graded T206 set was auctioned, raising more than $8 million. Now the [...]
Forged Goudey Cards Begin to Surface Following T206 Scandal
Days after the Net54 discovery of forged T206 autographs, fake Goudey signatures surface Well, it only seemed like a matter of time, right? As I wrote a few days ago in the [...]
Reprints and fakes shouldn’t be viewed as the same
Collectors need to realize that reprints and fakes are not the same thing As I’ve covered in the past, pre-war card collecting can be done inexpensively. Now, you [...]
PSA adjusting its prices for grading in 2019
Prices are set to increase for some card collectors A short while back, I wrote an article about grading companies getting behind on orders. In short, the three major [...]
Where Can I Buy and Sell Baseball Cards?
‘How Can I Sell my Baseball Cards?’ ‘Where can I sell my baseball cards’ is probably one of the most common questions asked since card collecting [...]
T206 Cards for a Dime? Let’s Take a Stroll Down Memory Lane.
Taking a look at really old card prices of really old cards One of my favorite things about the American Card Catalog is the wildly outdated pricing. Many collectors that [...]
Possible Second Known 1934 Schutter-Johnson Strong Man Card Emerges
One of the rarest cards in the hobby may have just been discovered There’s rare and then there’s borderline impossible. Yeah, so this is the latter. With only [...]
1934 Butterfinger Overprints a Rare ‘Variation’
While most 1934 Butterfinger photos are relatively common, a much rarer type exists The 1934 Butterfinger set included photograph premiums of baseball players. Cataloged as [...]
Backlog Issues by Grading Companies Won’t be Fixed Overnight
Third party grading companies are backed up and it’s likely not ending anytime soon Back in October, I sent a package of about 20 cards off to SGC for grading. SGC has [...]
For Better or Worse, SGC Sheet Cuts can be Game Changer
SGC Announces it will Professionally Cut and Grade Cards from Uncut Sheets So, I was minding my own business today, doing some work on my newly-established Dwight Gooden card [...]
Who Rules in Pre-War Card Collecting — Babe Ruth or Ty Cobb?
Which Legendary Player is Collected More? Two of the most popular baseball players in the history of the sport arguably lead the way when it comes to pre-war baseball cards [...]
