Making the cut

[MCyganik]

I know nothing about the seller but they've been doing it for many years and he seems to make a nice profit on his little niche.

I imagine he picks up a lot of old guides that might be rare but with torn covers and pages and salvages what he can. Aesthetically it might not go for anything whole, but there's a market for $16 paper panels of obscure players collectors might not see anywhere else. Anything interesting of the big name players are a bonus. So if he pays $50-100 for a rare guide and cuts 100+ photos out of it and sells even 4-12 he's making some money.

Sort of like card companies buying a HOFer's game used bat, cut it into many pieces to pad their card offering sales, and then throwing the knob and/or nameplates onto a card, call it a 1/1 and often have the card go for more $$$ than the whole bat would.

[RCMcKenzie]

A while back I was trying to find some information on T206 subject, Foley White, and found an article listed by this seller that was very helpful. I did not buy or bid on the article, I right-clicked on it, and enlarged the photo to read the article. White did, after all play for Houston as an outfielder, perhaps a utility player, as shown in the T206 series with a catcher's mitt.

[CobbSpikedMe]

I've bought cutouts of the Jersey City Skeeter team composites so I can display them with my Jersey City collection. If they were still in the guide they came from I couldn't display them. I didn't pay much for them so I don't mind the cost for the enjoyment of having them.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by MCyganik

Sort of like card companies buying a HOFer's game used bat, cut it into many pieces to pad their card offering sales, and then throwing the knob and/or nameplates onto a card, call it a 1/1 and often have the card go for more $$$ than the whole bat would.

Upper Deck is doing it with comic books too:

2019 Upper Deck Deadpool - New Mutants 98 Comic Cuts - Interiors #NM-98 - New Mutants #98
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