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Old 03-11-2010, 06:23 PM
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Congratulations Jimmy, with the Connie Mack. THAT is what I consider success. I don't consider taking a nice card and getting it entombed in plastic as a 'success story'. So this thread was starting to concern me a bit. Your's is a story of success.
Ahhh yes, there is always a dissenter in our ranks to throw chilly water on our stories. I like all stories be it raw or graded. It's all about passion and collecting!
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Picked up a raw 1948 Bowman Rizzuto as an upgrade for my set a few years ago. Scan was a little fuzzy and seller described it as vg-ex. I threw in a bid of $50 and won it for $38 or thereabouts. When the card arrived, it was gorgeous. Sent it into PSA and it graded an 8.
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Old 03-11-2010, 07:01 PM
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Bought this for a about $2800 (the ebay scan looked much worse than this scan):



Though I would have preferred not to, I ended up selling it for several times that amount:

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Not vintage but this was my best flip.

Bought a 90 Leaf Sosa RC the year he and Mac were dueling from a local shop for $5 and sent to PSA and came back a 10, then sold on Ebay for $600 and I feel bad for that buyer.
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Old 03-11-2010, 08:51 PM
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Proven, not proved.
The correct and intended usage of proven is as an adjective, as in "a proven method." Not the way you suggest using it.

Talk cards. Good idea.
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Default Two great ungraded lots that I acquired are......
1st....Early 1990's, I drove up to Peterboro, New Hampshire to buy 64 Goodwin Champions (N162) cards.
A complete set of 50 and 14 extras. Here are the 2 key cards from this collection. I'm proud to say that
they have remained ungraded.

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2nd....In 2005, a lot of 404 T206 cards was on ebay. The cards varied from Vg to Ex. Scans of stars (most-
ly VgEx) were provided. The remaining 344 were accurately described. There were only 44 duplicates.

Amazingly, I was only the 5th bidder on this lot. I guess because they were not graded, not too many col-
lectors/investors were interested in this huge lot of T206's......my Gain, everyone else's Loss.


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About seven years ago I bought a large group of several hundred raw T205 and T206 commons in a big lot from one of the major auction houses (don't want to say who they are, but they no longer exist).

Among the group of T206 commons, and unseen by the auction house, was a Nodgrass, which I got graded SGC 40. I was able to sell it for four figures.
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About seven years ago I bought a large group of several hundred raw T205 and T206 commons in a big lot from one of the major auction houses (don't want to say who they are, but they no longer exist).

Among the group of T206 commons, and unseen by the auction house, was a Nodgrass, which I got graded SGC 40. I was able to sell it for four figures.


Any wonder why they "no longer exist"?
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My best success $% wise was at the Philly show in Reading seeing a Mint looking
'58 Andy Pafko sitting on top of a dealers $1 pile. I thought it was a Heritage card it looked so nice.
I tossed a dollar on the table, took the card placed it in a top loader.
And sent it to PSA w/ my other submissions, it came back a "9"

I put it on eBay starting at .99 cents, it went for $688.58 (I just checked VCP)
Ironically the buyer also eBay'd it (last year) and a whale won it for $382.00
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About seven years ago I bought a large group of several hundred raw T205 and T206 commons in a big lot from one of the major auction houses (don't want to say who they are, but they no longer exist).

Among the group of T206 commons, and unseen by the auction house, was a Nodgrass, which I got graded SGC 40. I was able to sell it for four figures.
Barry they were too busy writing the world's longest run on sentence regarding the cards they did notice to notice.
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