s74 silks - wo/backing

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Posted By: steve

A real, real nice Matty S74 silk on ebay - but no paper backing. Aside from the fact of no backing, it looks to be a screamer - top condition.

But I am having hard time pulling trigger without the backing.

Question: I know the price drops off considerably without paper back, but what might you value this Matty silk with no backing.

I know the "color" silks of other variety never came with backing to begin with.

steve

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Posted By: Todd

You will find the white silks with the backing pretty rare and usually command a premium when available.

I have a couple of color Matty's that are in top shape. The white should go pretty high too.

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Posted By: steve

Todd, feel free to contact me if you ever want to sell your silks.

I kinda feel like if you're waiting for silks with backing, you could be waiting a long, long, long, long time to assemble even a few nice specimins.

steve

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Posted By: joe

I'm lucky to have 4 of the white silks with backing including Cobb. When I bought these years ago, they were not that hard to find, today is a different story.

Joe

Ty Cobb, Spikes flying!

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Posted By: steve

You guys have me drooling over the mentioned high grade major HOFer s74 silks with backing.

Let me know, steve

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Posted By: Mike

For years people have been buying non-baseball silks and remove their backing and put them on the baseball silks.

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Posted By: John

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Posted By: Ron

Here are my Cobbs,
2 out of 3 whites have backing.

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Posted By: andy becker

hi guys....

silks without the backing imo are worth substantially less (obviously). i don't buy silks without the backing as i feel people will overpay (and therefore i would have to overpay) just because they do not have the patience to find a nice backed example.

they (backed silks) are out there, but they are becoming more and more scarce.

boomer, i have seen obviously rebacked silks in passing....but they are very very obvious. additionally the actress silks used a "chip-board" backing vs. baseball silks that used a plain cardboard. not to say that there are not non-baseball silks whose backs would match up with baseball....but the sizing, fraying, and general apperance make them pretty obvious imo.

i will post a couple scans tonight in hopes of having steve wet his keyboard

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Posted By: steve

I once sent a black/white with backing silk to GAI for grading, the only company that grades silks(and BVG).

It had the typical center fold that the vast majority have - as it was packaged folded. GAI severely downgraded it for the fold - I told them to send it back unslabbed.

Are 90+ percent of black/white silks doomed for grading due to the way they were packaged with fold?

The colored silks seem to be more without fold - guess they were packaged completely flat ?

steve

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

For the record, there have been colored silks found with backing, although most are found without.

Patrick