anyway back to the search for the Sandy Koufax.... no luck checking in till I get to one of the last booths.... well its not fair to say no luck.... there were a few full on book priced cards.... but hey I am a dumpster diver....I dont pay full book!!! and then in all its glory I found it and at a price I like for $29 the Sandy was all mine!!! My 1960 set is DONE!!! or is it? as I ask in the title.... I do have a bit of an issue.... for you see while I have all the cards for the set....I am not sure the set is done till the pages in the binder are full and well 2 of the cards cant go in the pages, the graded Mickey Mantle and Willie Mccovey cards I bought..... do I need to buy some ungraded cards to go in the binder or do I bust them out of the plastic prisons they are stuck in or do I say to heck with it and call it complete??? In talking with the dealer who sold me the Koufax.... he said he was would bust them from the graded jail and set them free to fill the pages and make it a complete set....and I am inclined to agree..... I also had a fellow collector emphatically say I was an idiot for even thinking of uncasing those 2 cards for they are in high quality PSA graded cases and not some also ran fly by night scam grading company case..... any thoughts?
Oh I am writing all of this to keep my self from thinking of the next 72 hours or so of freezing cold that is awaiting....not fun times at all....
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I would free them from their plastic prison
Oh yeah, and congratulations!!!
If you aren't too worried about condition, you could always try and sell the Mantle and Mays cards for a premium to someone who appreciates graded cards. Then you could buy ungraded replacements and pocket the rest of the money. Just my 2 cents.
Congrats on completing the set. I'm not a huge fan of graded cards for two main reasons 1) they are a pain to store and if you have the rest of your collection in binders you can't keep them with the set they belong to. 2) since they are imprisoned in plastic you can't "feel" them, or get the sense of their feel in the plastic tombs.
OK OK we all know graded cards are entombed to preserve them in the state they were graded in, and for authentication purposes yadda yadda but they are also part of what separates collectors from investors in this hobby. Why would a collector spend about 10 times for a card in plastic when they can get that same card often in a better condition for a lot less? The preservation factor is the only thing I can think of, but for me it is not worth it.
I hadn't really thought about flipping them which good be profitable, though the reason I bought a graded Mantle was to get past the concern of fakes. The McCovey just happened to be a good deal.
Of course who am I kidding most likely I will try buying replacements for each of them and then keep the graded cards as well....because well a collector has got to collect. Yes I have issues....
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