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PSA Insider - August 25, 2009 | Vol. 10 Number 17 |
PSA HOBBY NEWS Legendary Auctions August 26-27 Sports & Americana Auction: Closes This Week!Over 1,000 lots of the finest cards, memorabilia and autographs the hobby has to offer, including the final selections from The Bob Gibson Collection. Preview available online. Auction closes this week! More... Clean Sweep Auction Ends on Sunday, September 2, 2009 - Auction #166 Offers Higher Grade PSA Cards from 1960-Present and Many Complete Sets Clean Sweep's current auction is a smaller auction that is run twice a year. The auction is loaded with higher grade complete sets from the 1960s and 1970s, better condition Rookie cards from all of the major sports and many better grade star cards, including several Mantle PSA 6s from the 1960s. More... Sirius Sports Cards Raw Auction #1 Is Now Live There are 545 lots for auction that will end on Saturday, August 29, 2009. at 11 p.m. EST using the 15 minute rule. This auction features raw HOF, commons, and group lots ranging from VG to NM condition featuring various players like Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Stan Musial, and many more. We decided to keep this auction smaller since it is the first one. If this is well received like our graded auctions we will make them much bigger and better to include 1000+ lots of high grade commons, HOF cards, group lots, partial sets, and complete sets per auction. More... |
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Over 150 Low Pop, High Grade PSA Cards at Auction from Just Collect - Closing Sunday, August 30! Just Collect is offering over 150 high grade, low pop PSA cards this week including: 1948 Leaf Football, 1966 Philadelphia Football, 1974 Topps Football, 1971 Topps Basketball, 1950 Callahan HOF Baseball, T220 Champions Boxing and much more!! More... Perfect 1986-87 Fleer Basketball Set a Slam Dunk for Memory Lane Memory Lane Inc's 2009 Summer Classic Rarities auction proved the adage that while real estate depends on three things: location, location and location, sports cards sell best based on condition, condition, condition. As is always the case with this vintage sports memorabilia specialist, there was no shortage of high-grade memorabilia available to the thousands of collectors who devour the company's full-color auction catalogs! More... PSA SET REVIEW
PSA EDITORIAL
PSA Q & A Question: Why are there some huge discrepancies in value when it comes to the superstars and all the other players in certain regional sets?Answer: Regional issues can be very collectable. These issues are often scarce and some of them have great designs. The reason you might see huge differences in value between the top stars like Mickey Mantle or Sandy Koufax and the rest of the set comes down to demand for the entire set. Player-based collections (which are often built around stars) usually include regional issues. For example, if I collect Sandy Koufax cards, I would probably want to add a 1958 Bell Brand card to my collection to compliment my regular issue Koufax cards. That said, the semi-stars and commons from those sets get attention, primarily, from set builders. If the set receives a lot of interest from set builders, these cards seem to perform well but most regional sets do not possess the mass appeal that mainstream sets do. As a result, the non-superstars can be obtained at a fraction of the prices realized from Mantle and Koufax cards because most of the demand is hyper-focused on the big name players.
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