Bloome's Chocolate OP for Sale

[arcadekrazy]

Wow, no takers? Just Smokey Joe's request? Is my price request really that of line?

[Matt]

Scans would help...

[Leon]

Since you asked, No, I don't think your asking price is out of line. That being said it is about the retail price for that card. In today's economy folks aren't buying too many retail priced cards at a fixed price, especially ones for more than a few hundred dollars. They are waiting for auctions and hoping to get them for less. Just my opinion since you asked.

[longstreet766]

Please send scans to gray766@hotmail.com.
Thanks,
Mike Gray

[Kotton King]

For me it's a fear as a result of the Patrick Chan incident that has me scared of overprints. I wonder if other collectors feel the same way?

[Leon]

Eric- Maybe a few newbies will be scared away. Folks that have been collecting a long time, and have gotten overprints from original collections, shouldn't be scared.I would be much more worried about mint or nrmt-mt pre-war cards than overprints.....but I am biased too ....The Blomes is the most common E94 Overprint by far.....so collectors of overprints might very well already have this one. If anyone who is scared wants to sell your overprints cheap I am a cash buyer....send them my way, please!!

[Kotton King]

Originally Posted by Leon

Eric- Maybe a few newbies will be scared away.

I definitely still consider myself a noob. I've only been in the hobby for 2 1/2 years and I've still got plenty to learn.

Originally Posted by Leon

Folks that have been collecting a long time, and have gotten overprints from original collections, shouldn't be scared.I would be much more worried about mint or nrmt-mt pre-war cards than overprints

Good point. Provenance would definitely help.


Anyway, sorry for hijacking your thread Mike. Good luck with your sale, and I hope everything works out for you and your family.

[E93]

I would be much more worried about mint or nrmt-mt pre-war cards than overprints.....but I am biased too

I would be much more worried about a complete run of E94 overprints than some nm or better pre-war cards. Producing a few stamps is a lot easier than turning vg corners into nm/mt corners. Trimming is pretty easy to detect these days.
JimB

[V117collector]

Originally Posted by Leon

I would be much more worried about mint or nrmt-mt pre-war cards than overprints.....but I am biased too

Leon, can you please elaborate, not sure I understand your quote

[Leon]

Jim- yeah, just look at all of those fake overprints in holders that are floating around.

Brad- it is common knowledge that in early hobby years there weren't so many pristine pre-war cards. It is also common knowledge that trimming is rampant in our hobby much more so than faking an overprint. Even though 2 fake overprints have been caught recently it pales in comparison to altered cards in general, imo.

Here is my look when I see a high grade pre-war graded card-

Mike- sorry to carry on in your thread but maybe you will get more publicity this way. For the record there has only been 1 fake E94 overprint ever found.....I doubt we can say that about high grade trimmed cards.