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Grading has gotten out of hand
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Apr 1 2016, 02:38 PM
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QUOTE(kooljazz1966 @ Apr 1 2016, 02:41 PM) Comic books, action figures/toys are slabbed as well. What's the fun in that? ..It's more about preservation as ridiculous as it can sometimes get...its how we as a society breed and egg on the fanatic collector and the endless quest for that whale of an "artifact". I suppose only reprints are intended to be enjoyed and the originals are to be preserved. It's overboard at times, that's for sure. Working in the field of cultural resource management, I see it everyday. Too many artifacts spend the rest of their lives pushed away in a dark curation storage room, left to sit in a box, often untouched or viewed by humans for a half-century-plus. It's really hard to fully appreciate something when you never get the chance to fully appreciate it.
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Boston5761 |
Apr 1 2016, 02:42 PM
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Don't get me wrong, I can understand slabbing a single card, or coin -- but to slab an entire unopened box of trading cards, is, well, just not my thing. I suppose in my eyes, slabbing an entire unopened box - as this one is - just signifies that there's no real intent to ever open it.
These are trading cards, please enjoy them -- all of them, not just the box lol
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