Tec 27 Restored Moderate 8.5 (P)

[Mr. 10%]

I saw this smoker at C-cnect.

These monsterbooks sure are comming out of the woodworks as we speak!

Any ballpark guesstimates as to the pre-work grade of this book?

Just curious.

 

And please save 'the blah-blah' posts - informed views are preferred ...

 

Edit: OK advise taken: I'l take the Blah-blah posts as well - all are welcome (thumbs u

[supapimp]

need to see the comments on the label to know what work has been done before i can determine pre resto grade.

[Dark Knight]

I'm guessing in the $70k ballpark

[Mr. 10%]

 

With juice?

[Mr. 10%]

need to see the comments on the label to know what work has been done before i can determine pre resto grade.

 

 

Linky:

 

http://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=431989

 

 

 

 

[supapimp]

With juice?

 

comic connect doesn't rape their bidders with BP or juice. from the resto label notes, the book prolly was a 3.5 before restoration.

[Mr. 10%]

 

Then obviously my next question is:

 

what will it go for?

Dark Knight: said 70K

[Dark Knight]

Just a guess

[supapimp]

i say $150K at least.

[Mr. 10%]

 

 

Well two blue 4.0's have just been sitting and sitting with a 300K pricetag (approx) for some time now. The C-Link one got pulled recently. One left at C-cnct.

 

150K? Geesh I dont know.

If I had the money Id buy that damn thing. Thats for sure. Stunning copy ...

[Bronty]

I don't know.. its kind of a frankenbook with the pieces added and all that. I'd say 100k range

[Mr. 10%]

 

Me dont know either, but it is one of the worlds highest technical grades for the 'big tec'. Not that many 8.5s floating around out there.

What FMV does GPA indicate ... (just thinking high - not requesting (thumbs u)

[supapimp]

Me dont know either, but it is one of the worlds highest technical grades for the 'big tec'. Not that many 8.5s floating around out there.

What FMV does GPA indicate ... (just thinking high - not requesting (thumbs u)

 

this is not a CGC 8.5 tho, it's a CGC 8.5 moderate restored. HUGE diff'.

[Mr. 10%]

 

"tho" ?

[tonytiger]

 

Well two blue 4.0's have just been sitting and sitting with a 300K pricetag (approx) for some time now. The C-Link one got pulled recently. One left at C-cnct.

 

150K? Geesh I dont know.

If I had the money Id buy that damn thing. Thats for sure. Stunning copy ...

 

$75k seems right. $150k is silly.

[Hawkman23]

I'd say in the ballpark of 90K

[Ze-man]

I don't know.. its kind of a frankenbook with the pieces added and all that. I'd say 100k range

 

I know you said "kind of" so I don't mean to single out your comment. I am just honestly curious about the frankenbook term itself, and makes me wonder if we all consider it equally.

 

I have always considered the term to be reserved for books that were piecemealed together from several copies, and or uber extensive work necessary to bring a book back to some semblance of normalcy.

 

This Tec 27 was pegged as Moderate P.

 

So the piece fill, and CT was not extensive, which means the book was in pretty decent shape to start with and is closer to original then not.

 

And no, I have no idea who owns the book, nor who did the work. I have just heard the term used enough to wonder if it means the same thing to me as it does most everyone else.

 

Because it's obviously a derogatory term, sometimes deserving. Other times not so much.

 

Or do most collectors see the term "piece-fill" and automatically think Frankenbook?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[faster friends]

No, this is not a Frankenbook. I agree with your definition Kenny.

[swapto]

$90K+

[lou_fine]

Me dont know either, but it is one of the worlds highest technical grades for the 'big tec'. Not that many 8.5s floating around out there.

What FMV does GPA indicate ... (just thinking high - not requesting (thumbs u)

 

this is not a CGC 8.5 tho, it's a CGC 8.5 moderate restored. HUGE diff'.

 

This book definitely looks really sharp for a 8.5 technical grade!

 

If this was an unrestored book, it looks like it would be sitting in a 9.0 slab at the minimum or possibly even a 9.2 slab. Like all other restored books, CGC applies the CGC hammer and knocks the book down a grade or two before applying the PLOD to it. Sort of like a double whammy!!

 

The opposite treatment given to a major name pedigree whereby CGC is often prone to applying the CGC bump and raises the grade a notch or so. This is why there are so many gorgeous looking restored books any yet at the same time, so many fugly looking pdigree books, relative to their stated grades.