Loyal reader Pete D’Luhosch asks:
I’ve got a question re. vintage card pricing. If a near mint 1951 Bowman is priced at $100 in the Standard Catalog, what would a NM/MT example be? A MINT example? Is there a multiplier for vintage cards that are better than NM?
The answer:
It’s one of those things that falls under the category of “things that are are rare enough–and the market changes enough–that the correct answer is ’some number, higher than NM, agreed upon by you and your buyer/seller.’”
Truth is, that’s high-end stuff and we can’t get a bead on it because it’s a moving target.
A good yardstick is eBay and SCD’s reference site for non-eBay auctions, SCDauctions.com. While that isn’t the be-all and end-all, it can give you an idea. If it doesn’t have the exact card you are looking for, you can kinda get an idea of the multiplier by poking around in the general year and series, etc. I.E. if a Mays and Pafko go for 3x NM in mint slabs and you can find a couple other singles verifying that pattern…you have your answer of a reasonable asking price.
All this make sense? A little “inside baseball” on this imprecise science.
