I hate this. People are so obsessed with making every last dollar out of Vintage HOF cards, even when they are beat up. I get it, there will always be people needing low grade fillers of Mays, Mantle and Koufax, because they will never see a nice midgrade specimen, much less afford it. But here someone drew a mustache on Sandy, who would never be caught dead with a caterpillar on his lip, and now the seller comes along an tried to remove the mustache ink, but really just leaves him looking like he has big blue boogers. What could have been a perfectly good throwaway card to add to my future museum quality frankenset of "Trashed and defaced misfits and miscuts". Booooooooooooooooo. Boo Hiss I say. And I'll betcha that big crease in the middle of his chin is from where they were trying to use a ball point pen eraser on the front. Which is totally cheating in meeting the spirit of the thing.
I started building baseball card sets to distract my disordered mind from itself. After a while my mind re-ordered my card collection into Frankensets just to because the chaos was more interesting to behold. These are my thoughts.
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You have no idea the amount of time I have to spend searching out defaced mustache cards on eBay. Nobody ever cops to having one up front,...

The Dodgers may be blue, but boogers? No.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to money... I feel like there will always be a percentage of people who are out to make as much of it as they can. The good news is someone can easily redraw Sandy's sapphire 'stache if they really wanted to :D
ReplyDeleteTime to get out your own blue pen to fix what the seller messed up!
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