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on September 12, 2010, 12:25 pm,
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Selling baseball cards is especially difficult if you don’t understand exactly what cards you have for sale! Learning to identify the various Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Upper Deck, Bowman, Goudey, Stadium Club, or Allen & Ginter can be absolutely overwhelming for a person new to the hobby. If you are fortunate enough to have some of the tobacco cards from the late 1800s and early 1900s it can be even more difficult. Then there are postcards, felts, pennants, die-cut cards and other oddball issues that seem to defy classification. Most price guides are limited on pictures so expert help is needed. Continue reading this post »
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on September 12, 2010, 5:08 am,
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How can I sell my baseball cards if I don’t know what they’re worth? What are my baseball cards worth? These are both seemingly simple questions with no so simple answers! Once you familiarize yourself with graded cards and grading in general it is easy to see that like the real estate mantra of “location, location, location” the baseball card world is full of “condition, condition, condition”. Continue reading this post »
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on September 12, 2010, 4:22 am,
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PSA Graded Mickey Mantle
For those that have been out of the hobby or are new to the hobby, the world of baseball cards has gone through a serious change regarding condition. Learning the ins and outs of grading cards can be a lifelong process. For anyone looking to sell baseball cards, fortunately there now exist third party graders. The concept of third party grading emerged in the 1990s as a way for collectors to get honest appraisals for a cards condition. Continue reading this post »
