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Originally Posted by raulus
1962T in high grades tends to sell at a pretty good premium. Wood borders can be a real issue with getting dinged up pretty easily, and I think that’s what’s coming into play here with the prices.
If you look historically at those two cards in PSA 6, 7, 8, the 1962T consistently sells for a lot more than the 1954T in the same grade. And often the difference is 2x or 3x.
Also, we’ve seen a few of the 1954T in PSA 9 come onto the market over the last 5 years. I think this might be the only 1962T in PSA 9 in that span. So there was probably some pent-up demand for the 62T.
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Don't disagree at all, just don't really get why his '54 card would sell for less than his '62. IMO the '54 is a much better looking card to begin with. There are many people who are not real crazy about the wood grain effect on '62 Topps cards at all. And the '54 set also marks the first Topps cards they actually used real player photos on, so there is that added extra as well.
As I said, the pop reports don't seem to offer a reasonable explanation for such a price difference at all. What does possibly help explain it is if the high grade '62s have been hoarded in the recent past and not showing up for sale, as you mentioned. In which case, that difference could be due to two collectors just waiting a long time to finally find a high grade '62 Mays card for sale, and both went after it. Which actually just reinforces my original point that I don't think it was primarily the pop reports alone that explain the differences in the prices paid for those two different Mays cards.
10-20-2022, 02:39 PM
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