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				 How long will it be 
 
			
			before there is a grading company that grades the grading slabs that the cards are in?
 I thought about this the other day when I was introducing my 16month old to baseball cards and letting her look at them and run around the house with them.  I was able to do this confidently because of the slabs the cards are in (and one Hank Aaron that isn't graded but in a screw down which was her favorite to play with).  I then thought about how when some of those cards came out people thought it couldn't hurt any if children played with the cards directly.
 
 So am I possibly devaluing my cards in 40+years by letting my child play with the cards in slabs now?  Will a card with an error flip be worth more?  Will a nick in the case loose $1000s?  Will earlier serial numbers be worth more than later serial numbers?
 
 Something to think about.
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