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Old 07-08-2019, 07:36 PM
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Default 1963 Clemente. Crack open or leave it as is...?

Need advice guys.


I asked about this on Blowout. Figured I'd get some older guys/vintage veterans to help me out.


Bought this from my shop today for 200. Thought I'd take a chance on it.

Came from a seller who sold a collection of Clemente cards.

Measures correctly
No crease
No print dots
Sharp corners
Not restored
Etc...

Worth more in this stupid slab or should I crack it out and keep raw?










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Old 07-08-2019, 07:52 PM
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< 9 out of 10 PRO holders have something funky going on.

If you are going to the national, I will look at it for you.
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Wasn't Gary affiliated with PRO?
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< 9 out of 10 PRO holders have something funky going on.

If you are going to the national, I will look at it for you.

I'd be willing to mail it to you to look at...
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I would crack it. Long ago I purchased a '63 Stargell RC off Ebay. It was graded by some company named CSA as a NM-MT 8 in a slab that looked eerily similar to PSA. It is a really nice card that is dead centered but I was always suspicious of it but got it for a great price so left it in there. I recently decided to crack it and submit to PSA. I measured it and it looked OK to me but I would not have been surprised if PSA rejected it. To my pleasant surprise it came back as a ExMt 6. I would do the same for yours. It is a liability being in that PRO holder.
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I would crack it. Long ago I purchased a '63 Stargell RC off Ebay. It was graded by some company named CSA as a NM-MT 8 in a slab that looked eerily similar to PSA. It is a really nice card that is dead centered but I was always suspicious of it but got it for a great price so left it in there. I recently decided to crack it and submit to PSA. I measured it and it looked OK to me but I would not have been surprised if PSA rejected it. To my pleasant surprise it came back as a ExMt 6. I would do the same for yours. It is a liability being in that PRO holder.
CSA is worlds better than PRO. I have cracked CSA cards
and received higher grades from all 3 companies.

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Crack it. It's probably a $200 raw card, even if it doesn't get the same grade. If you send it in to a TPG, you can set a minimum grade and if it doesn't get there, you'll get it back raw. It's a nice looking card, congrats!
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Id leave it,and crack it later on
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Thanks guys...

I left it as is and made a 20 dollar profit lol
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I wouldn’t buy a card graded outside the big 3 in a shop probably.


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