Raw Cards

[tonyo]

Does anyone here collect them?

Why or why not?

Thanks - Tony

[barrysloate]

Lots of collectors have raw cards, even more than you may imagine. Not everyone is smitten with professional grading.

[Jim VB]

I showed these on the Post-War forum recently.

Yeah, I have a few raw cards.

[danmckee]

WOW Jim!! All of my sets are raw and in binders but not nearly as organized as yours are! I love that set up!!! You don't have an extra wrapper for that President's set do you? Dan

To answer this thread, I only collect raw. I grade cards when I am selling them or want to have them on the SGC registry like my Washington Times cobb and Crawford.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by danmckee

WOW Jim!! All of my sets are raw and in binders but not nearly as organized as yours are! I love that set up!!! You don't have an extra wrapper for that President's set do you? Dan

To answer this thread, I only collect raw. I grade cards when I am selling them or want to have them on the SGC registry like my Washington Times cobb and Crawford.

Sorry Dan, no wrappers at all, never mind "extra" ones on hard to find sets. Besides, Didn't you pick up a wrapper on that set last year? I seem to remember a discussion about potential cross-over between R114 and R328 wrappers.


And, to answer the original question, about 98% of my stuff is raw. I recently started thinking about selling off some basketball sets so have had a few of them graded by SGC.

I'm also not yet 100% complete on all the Topps sets. I'm about 100 cards short on 1952 (guess which 100), and maybe 50 cards short on each of 1954, 1960, and 1961.

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

I showed these on the Post-War forum recently.

Yeah, I have a few raw cards.

That's a lot of cards. Very Impressive.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by tonyo

That's a lot of cards. Very Impressive.

That's what my wife says. Without the "very impressive" part.

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

That's what my wife says. Without the "very impressive" part.

Did you stop at 86 topps, or are you still collecting new stuff?

[danmckee]

Yea Jim that was me, but I have the sports set wrapper, I need the actual Presidents wrapper now. I have the Presidents in all 3 colors complete less the McKinnley of course. I love the way you did the outside of your binders, I need to do something like that.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by danmckee

Yea Jim that was me, but I have the sports set wrapper, I need the actual Presidents wrapper now. I have the Presidents in all 3 colors complete less the McKinnley of course. I love the way you did the outside of your binders, I need to do something like that.

Heavy duty Avery "view" binders from Staples. Black for Baseball. Blue for Basketball. White for non-sports. You can just print from a scan of any card you want on the spines.