Your Best Raw Card Success Story

[M's_Fan]

These days I don't buy many raw cards. But in 2006 I bought a raw T206 Bresnahan for $63:



After I got the card in the mail, I started to get excited, it had much sharper corners than I had previously thought, and no creases. A few years later, in 2008, I had it submitted, and it came back from SGC in a 70 holder:



Not Bad!

Of course, everyone has a story of getting burned buying raw cards with defects not described in the listing, etc... but I thought it would be fun to start a thread for anyone to post their "raw card success story"...

[T206DK]

I remember back in the early 90's buying a bunch of T206's off of a guy who had placed an ad in SCD. My brother and I bought about 30 cards for between $6-8 a card. They all graded around 3 or 4 with a couple of 5's from PSA when we finally got around to grading them. We also used to buy T3's from an old man who set up at small card shows in our area back then...we bought about a dozen or so from him for I think $40-$50 each. none were real gems, but they weren't trashy either. Those were the good old days.

[T206Collector]

...my best raw card story is also probably a T206 Bresnahan batting that came in a group of raw cards and ultimately graded an SGC 70. Seriously strange coincidence.

But the story I often tell is about my old T206 Pfeister Throwing, which was almost entirely covered in scrapbook paper, which I got for around $10. The paper literally fell off of the card when I put it under water and there was absolutely no glue residue or paper damage at all. SGC also graded that one an SGC 70.

I don't own either anymore.

[M's_Fan]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

...my best raw card story is also probably a T206 Bresnahan batting that came in a group of raw cards and ultimately graded an SGC 70. Seriously strange coincidence.

But the story I often tell is about my old T206 Pfeister Throwing, which was almost entirely covered in scrapbook paper, which I got for around $10. The paper literally fell off of the card when I put it under water and there was absolutely no glue residue or paper damage at all. SGC also graded that one an SGC 70.

I don't own either anymore.

What a weird coincidence about that T206 Bresnahan! And cool story about that Pfeister, I've never dared putting a T206 under water...

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by M's_Fan

I've never dared putting a T206 under water...

Putting moral issues aside, T206s fair well under water as long as they are dried reasonable well and you don't keep them under for more than a few minutes. It's not like what happens to a Topps card.

[autograf]

Bought a raw T206 Mathewson portrait at a Cincinnati show a long time ago that looked trimmed but it filled a hole for $200. I decided to grade and it came back a PSA6 EXMT. That was a nice turn. In regards to soaking, bought a 19th century album and soaked out about 600-700 cards including 10 N162's, two of which were baseball. They later graded at SGC as SGC70 and SGC80. Dunlap was one. Not sure the other.

[DICKTOWLE]

Bought a 1965 Rose last year from Ebay for $ 65.00. It was a nice looking card, sent to SGC graded 8.5, that was nice.

This was added to my son's collection. Thank you

[Robextend]

Bought a 1940 PlayBall George Kelly and a 1948 Leaf George Stirnweiss for about $15 each, sent them to SGC and they both came back as 84's.

Also bought a T205 Marquard for roughly $35 and it came back an SGC 50.

Nothing like getting those raw gems....

[t206wagner]

Bought a 1915 Cracker Jack Meyers for $30 because the seller said it was trimmed. When I received it, it didn't looked trimmed and it measured okay so I sent it to SGC. Came back as an 80.

[Ladder7]

No good deals lately... Two eBay raw purchases long ago, both with horrible scans and the Mantle seller was brand new;

T205 Marquard for $40 came back SGC 80

1959 Mantle for $50 came back PSA 6

Rube is gone, still have the Mick.

[Chris Counts]

I've told my one grading success story here before, but I'll summarize it again. I picked up seven "colorized" 1940 Play Ball card at the S.F. Cow Palace show a couple years ago. The seller thought some kids colored them in. Later I described the cards to Mike Baker at GAI and he encourage me to send them in for grading. I sent him several, and for a couple months, they sat in the GAI office. Finally the cards came back with the explanation that they were "too controversial" to grade. Mike confirmed with me that one prominent dealer in particular was campaigning against their authenticity, but he said he believed they were legitimate. So I took the cards to SGC's table at the National in Anaheim. I showed them to several of their representatives, and they repeated the story about the previously-mentioned dealer. Out of frustration, I handed them a card of Frank Demaree and said, "Please, take this card back to your lab, and if you have to destroy it in a science experiment, go ahead. I'm convinced these cards were printed in color and I'm willing to sacrifice one to prove it." The rep from SGC took the card, and a few weeks later it was returned in a slab identifying it as a proof. It graded excellent. Here's the card before it was slabbed ...

[glynparson]

Raw $175 got a PSA 8 and sold it to a whale for a lot more than that.

[JeremyW]

this is mine.http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1268360814

Somehow this fell under the the radar about 8-9 years ago on Ebay. Two figures.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by JeremyW

this is mine.http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1268360814

Somehow this fell under the the radar about 8-9 years ago on Ebay. Two figures.

Jeremy,

You're correct. That's not a card. Better mail it to me. Need my address?

[calvindog]

Rob, I'll confess: I wrote to Frank about you. The only thing worse than your vicious sarcasm is the way you flaunt your love affair with plastic slabs in all our faces.

[kylebicking]

My best raw buy happens to be one of Leon's favorite cards, his Big Show Candy Ty Cobb.

After winning an eBay auction, I asked the seller if he had anything else for sale, I always do. He sent me a list of cards he was trying to get rid of, and one was listed as an unknown or uncatalogued Ty Cobb. His asking price was only $150 so I bought it blind for $150, having not seen scan of it or any idea what it was. After getting it in hand and doing a bunch of research, I figured out what it was and was pretty happy with my decision. The card was later consigned to Goodwin.

I'd say it is hands down the coolest, uniquest, and rarest card I've ever had in my possession, and likely ever will.

-Kyle

[mets41]

Back in the late 70's or early 80's I went to a local live card auction. I got the auction list before hand and there was a lot "1958 Topps Clemente" (I forget the condition). There was no mention if the card was the rare yellow letter or the white letter variation. When I got to the auction, I saw it was the "yellow letter" variation, won the card for about the white letter variation value and turned the card around for a nice profit.