Closing Tonight - Love of the Game Winter Set Builder Auction

[Lucas00]

Just touching exhibits is nerve racking. A slightly wrong move will leave chips and damage to the corners and edges.

I assume high grade examples aren't being found anymore. And the ones that are already graded have a safety net in place.

To my knowledge they are one of the most condition sensitive sets ever created.

[nolemmings]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

Just touching exhibits is nerve racking. A slightly wrong move will leave chips and damage to the corners and edges.

I assume high grade examples aren't being found anymore. And the ones that are already graded have a safety net in place.

To my knowledge they are one of the most condition sensitive sets ever created.

Sorry, I have to disagree with that entirely, except I won't challenge your assumption as to the availability of high-grade examples (although it doesn't seem the pop reports necessarily bear that out either). They are made on sturdy cardstock, and are far more easily handled than many if not most pre-war sets, IMO. I could see an argument if they came out of the arcade machines with dinged corners, chipped edges, etc., but that doesn't seem to be the problem. Being borderless exposes some problems not as readily apparent on cards with borders, but not so much as to make handling them in any way nerve racking, again IMO.

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Sorry, I have to disagree with that entirely, except I won't challenge your assumption as to the availability of high-grade examples (although it doesn't seem the pop reports necessarily bear that out either). They are made on sturdy cardstock, and are far more easily handled than many if not most pre-war sets, IMO. I could see an argument if they came out of the arcade machines with dinged corners, chipped edges, etc., but that doesn't seem to be the problem. Being borderless exposes some problems not as readily apparent on cards with borders, but not so much as to make handling them in any way nerve racking, again IMO.

Really? That's interesting.

Maybe it had to do with how they were stored.

I had a big lot that was extremely fragile.
I put a few of them into large card savers and I don't think a single one made it inside without some minor edge damage somewhere. Just lightly pressing them in chipped the top edge of a few.

Its one of those things that if you aren't looking closely you will miss it and probably not notice.

It was infuriating.
I wonder what Adams experience is. He's The exhibit mad after all