My problem with investing big money into any slabbed card, pre-war or not, is a grading company's reputation (i.e. GAI) can be damaged beyond belief and severely devalue their cards overnight. As purely a hypothetical example, what if news broke that any of the big two/three companies was caught giving many faulty grades for personal gain, etc.? Or purposefully slabbing trimmed/altered/fake cards?
If I ever poured $30,000 into a card, I'd feel much more secure putting it into a rare card in general than I would putting it into a nominal card marked up 100x simply because of a grader's opinion. That's always seemed incredibly risky to me. I have no problem with graded cards and especially enjoy the protection they can provide to cards that could be damaged without a slab. But I just wouldn't have the desire to pay that kind of a premium for something based on opinion.
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T201 (50/50)
T205 (208/208)
T206 (520/520)
T207 (200/200)
E90-1 (118/121)
E90-3 (20/20)
E91A/B/C (96/99)
E93 (17/30)
E95/96 (26/55)
C59-61 (149/248)
N28/N29 A&G (84/100)
1901-02 Ogden Tabs (1,327/1,560)
1933-41 Goudey (265/478)
1939-41 Play Ball (381/473)
Complete: E47, E49, E50, E75, E76, E229, K4, N88, N91, R136, T29, T30, T38, T51, T53, T68, T73, T77, T118, T218, T220, T225, W512, W513, W542, W552, W565, Dozens of smaller uncategorized sets
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Last edited by Cozumeleno; 06-08-2016 at 06:02 AM.
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