Forgot to mention the dozen or so one screw screwdowns too.
The Cousy is one the hardest cards in any card hobby to get in good condtion. Even pack fresh ones get psa 6. There are NO 10's and three 9s in the world! Its friggen hard to get!
The autos are ttm mail autos I got by sending to the players!
The Risen is an upgrade on the one I already have. My mate Ryan remembers everything I say! :shock:
The box will be broken shortly and lets all hope for an auto to make up for this crap! :wink:
Just thought some of the board members here would appreciate a classic card in the hobby but alas it seems if you don't collect a genre you don't appreciate a genre in hobby. :roll:
This card is every bit as important as a Jordan rc etc.
Take a look at the new beckett card hall of fame in the new issue. Ten cards in the first year and this is one of them. Although I did help the editors and writer with the selection for that beckett article. LOL
I guess if they had of asked here then it would have been number 245 on the list to get in.
Yeah the Cousy's are a nice collection centerpiece
The Berk Ross story is as follows. Berk Ross produced cards for a three year period or so to rival bowmans card releases at the time. Bowman only had the one year to date with 1948 but ruled the roost with its baseball product.
Berk Ross mad a few sets in 1950, 51 and 52. With only the 51 year with Basketball. They were perforated in two card panels are attatched ones are like hens teeth! A Cousy like that would fetch $20,000US + in EX condition.
Berk Ross only lasted about 3 years though before bowing out of the hobby but not before making some of the most valuabe baseball cards of all time though. Ruth, Williams, Gehrig etc.
Here is a Bill Sharman attatched that is not mine.
Only two well known players are in the set of Basketball of four players. The Cousy and Sharman. The Sharman is in my sig
Therefore as each player didn't appear in 1948 Bowman its their FIRST appearance on a card and therefore a XRC of sorts. Sharman is in his all star uni and Cousy in his Holly Cross uni.
With the perforation its hard to get a high graded one of course.
Nah mines all good. That psa one is misscut to a degree. Take a look at the other card, if you seperated them it would hardly have a border on it where it meets the Sharman.
I see what you mean now about allowances for grading for vintage cards. It'd be very hard to compare them to todays releases especially edges, centering and surfaces.