Do Date Stamps make keys less desirable?

[CheeseFrog]

I love date stamps!

[Brian48]

Not a big fan of them, but I've come to accept them. Here's one of my more notable ones.

 

[rodan57]

I had no idea so many collectors LOVE date stamps...

 

anything hand-written... I can see how that isn't so appealing... but I don't mind it if it's small, and doesn't interfere with artwork...

 

names written on the cover - forget it

 

 

Names can be provenance.

 

[Azkaban]

Love date stamps especially when placed strategically on books, and don't mind some hand written WHITE MOUNTAINS

[oakman29]

I had no idea so many collectors LOVE date stamps...

 

anything hand-written... I can see how that isn't so appealing... but I don't mind it if it's small, and doesn't interfere with artwork...

 

names written on the cover - forget it

 

 

Names can be provenance.

 

 

I would rather have a clean unstamped book.

As far as provenance, I don't care if little Johnny owned the book when he was 6.

[kav]

Yep screw little Johnny

[Bomber-Bob]

I like date stamps but I don't like seeing the date stamp smeared. I'm seeing a lot of smeared date stamps lately. I suspect it is the result of an aggressive press. CGC should hammer a smeared date stamp.

[Azkaban]

I like date stamps but I don't like seeing the date stamp smeared. I'm seeing a lot of smeared date stamps lately. I suspect it is the result of an aggressive press. CGC should hammer a smeared date stamp.

 

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[jools&jim]

 

I'm seeing a lot of smeared date stamps lately.

Examples?

 

 

 

[Crimebuster]

As far as provenance, I don't care if little Johnny owned the book when he was 6.

 

 

I love date stamps. I usually like names too, it's cool to see the previous owners. And some little kids are more interesting than others.

 

[toro]

I hate them

 

I love them

 

I too love them.

 

They remind me of when I was buying those silver age books as a kid. It also tells me that these books were once owned by someone and not a warehouse find.

 

I will buy them all day long.

[rjpb]

Yep screw little Johnny

 

Little punk, putting his name on books like he owns them.

[catrick339]

I really like clear date stamps, and the older the book the more I like them. Part of the history of the comic, and the publishing industry.

 

 

 

[TheAmazing R.J.S.]

Love the date stamp myself, still looking for my birth stamp 9/18/1974 anyone comes across one please PM

[drbanner]

Yes.

[Jaydogrules]

They don't bother me in the least. Neither do star stamps, little kid names or unobtrusive doodles. These are 50-75 year old paper artifacts, in some cases they are lucky to have survived at all, and these sort of "defects" tell us where the book has been and the road it has traveled through time.

 

If I want a flawless, cookie cutter book there are plenty of cr@ppy late bronze age, copper and modern comics to choose from with hundreds or thousands of identical looking slabbed 9.8's out there.

 

-J.

[Hibou]

Big fan of date stamps myself... and as was mentioned before, I don't mind small hand written arrival dates either.

[Wilson3d]

Unless they are I. A distracting place I actually like them.

[The Kaptain]

I don't mind them on bronze age and older books. However, if I had a choice between two identical books and one had a date stamp and the other did not, I would probably go with no date stamp, especially in 9.0+ condition.

[Mijael.Levy]

I love them , they make the book more desirable to me