topic: why are exhibits so underrated as a set?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

I think Exhibits are the ultimate autograph cards--big enough so the signature can also be big. The Satchel Paige in REA shows that prices are inching up, albeit at a slow pace. I much prefer a signed exhibit to a signed Topps issue.

I would easily rather have a signature on an Exhibit than a Topps issue.

As has probably been mentioned, over-sized cards, often, don't get the respect they should.

[cubman1941]

I also like the Exhibit's and would like to throw my 2 cents in. Growing up as a kid in northern Wisconsin in the 50's and never getting to any beach or big city, I never heard of Exhibit cards. We went fishing to resorts but there were never any machines to get Exhibits from. Thus, it wasn't until I settled down in the 70's and got into collecting that I found out about them. So while I had cards for the 50's I didn't have any Exhibits. I now have quite a few and my experience has been they are hard to trade for all the reasons stated here. I did manage to pick up this machine a while back. I can't get it to work right but I enjoyed getting it to add to my collection of baseball "stuff".