Diamond matchbooks

[TanksAndSpartans]

Anyone have any idea why the grading companies don't grade these? I only noticed them because for my main and pretty broad area of interest (pre Super Bowl), a lot of players don't have cards, but they have these. And I'm not one to get excited about oddball collectables, but these actually have really nice "football card style" write ups/bios, so despite not being "cards", they are basically the type of collectable I like. Thanks for any info.

[peterose4hof]

Probably because the expense of developing a new slab isn't justified based on the number of inquiries they get.

I don't collect the football ones, but I have a bunch of the baseball and I agree with you they are quite attractive for an oddball set.

[jefferyepayne]

It also might have to do with the various widths they'd have to support since some of these are flat like bobtails (without the striker) and match covers (with the matches removed), some have the matches intact and a collector wants the case opened so you can read the entire matchbook, and others are closed matchbooks that just show the players image.

They are cool, though. Here are a few of mine







jeff

[Exhibitman]

SGC grades and encapsulates the match covers [with the matches removed] in their tall boy holder. A baseball example:

[clamendo]

I just graded the entire 1933 set. Very very tough to complete.

[TanksAndSpartans]

Thanks to everyone for the posts.

Jeff - I really like that Grange - I can always count on you for some nice scans.

That is really good news about SGC - I wasn't expecting to see one in a holder. Props to SGC.

After I posted of course, I actually surprised myself and found these in my Becket catalog right on my own shelf. Does anyone know if Jefferson R. Burdick collected and/or cataloged these with one of his numbers?

Carl, if you can get those scanned onto the SGC registry, that would be really nice to see. I heard 33 is the toughest set especially Arnie Herber
and Cal Hubbard. Was that your experience?

[clamendo]

Frank Nagy created the best known football matchbook checklist. There have been some discoveries over the years, but he was pretty darn close. Many of the colors have never been seen in the silver matchbooks.

I just know from conversations with Ed Kabala and Ron Barksdale, John Spano, among others some are very rare... No one really knows how rare though


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