Truckee meadows collection 13 13

[lighthouse]

On 4/21/2022 at 10:02 PM, tth2 said:

Feh, just a Marvel!
 

I know. I know.

Thankfully I have multiple white paged “1 higher” DCs coming as well to soften the blow.

[Pickie]

Looks gorgeous, indeed! 

[Sal]

On 4/22/2022 at 1:02 AM, tth2 said:

Feh, just a Marvel!
 

yes but a 10-center, so that should count for something in your cold, black DC heart. it doesn't in mine, but i am giving you the benefit of the doubt seeing as you're such a nice fellow

[tth2]

On 4/22/2022 at 8:59 PM, Sal said:

On 4/22/2022 at 1:02 PM, tth2 said:

Feh, just a Marvel!
 

yes but a 10-center, so that should count for something in your cold, black DC heart. it doesn't in mine, but i am giving you the benefit of the doubt seeing as you're such a nice fellow

I guess I could deign to own it.

[lighthouse]

On 4/22/2022 at 3:53 AM, Pickie said:

Looks gorgeous, indeed! 

Here’s an intentionally blurry pic. Just so the focus can be on the centering.

[Pantodude]

On 4/22/2022 at 10:24 AM, lighthouse said:

Here’s an intentionally blurry pic. Just so the focus can be on the centering.

I have a couple (nowhere near 9.0!), and below is the better centered one of those two.  At the time, I grabbed it b/c it was a unicorn pence, not appreciating the centering until much later.  Sometimes I'm a bit oblivious like that.   

Edited April 22, 2022 by Pantodude

[lighthouse]

On 4/22/2022 at 2:25 PM, Pantodude said:

I have a couple (nowhere near 9.0!), and below is the better centered one of those two.  At the time, I grabbed it b/c it was a unicorn pence, not appreciating the centering until much later.  Sometimes I'm a bit oblivious like that.   

Art above the IND

Art below Reed’s foot

Art left of THE

Art right of the price circle

That’s some sweet centering. And nice and straight too. Clean Featuring box down the right edge.

Definitely a nice copy!

[Dark Knight]

Looks like it's time for me to sell my kitchen sink to be able to afford thar book. Glad I waited this long.

[lighthouse]

On 4/19/2022 at 2:09 PM, Sal said:

They're OOHGSADC with white pages.

What's the rush?

Did someone say OOHGSADC?

This one is in a May 2 weekly.

 

[lighthouse]

And lest anyone think every book in the collection is a 9+, they aren’t. Plenty of nice looking 7s and 8s. And all (so far) with white pages.

This one also in the May 2.

[tth2]

On 4/23/2022 at 10:46 PM, lighthouse said:

Did someone say OOHGSADC?

This one is in a May 2 weekly.

 

Nice!  And better centered than most copies of this book, which tend to be miswrapped.

[chrisco37]

Incredible stuff.  Those FF1s are so white.

[lighthouse]

Almost forgot. I can actually share this pic from March now.

Low res version for now. I’ll post the hi-res when the items go live.

This pic wasn’t nearly as nerve-wracking as the April pic holding five slabs at once. Thankfully they let me sit down for the final pic that includes all eight (April 5, June 2, and September 1).

[Sal]

This is the kind of collection wherein it would really have been nice for CGC to offer up a custom label.  It's a shame the provenance of these OO books is going to get essentially wiped out by dispersal in the market, like the Jon Berk/Mound City/Slobodian/Cleveland etc runs.  A custom label wouldn't of course guarantee anything after sales but it's a shame the hobby's two options are Pedigree and bupkiss.

Hell, even a sticker would have been cool. I for one will never resub my old slab Pac Coast books with the stickers.  It's history-within-history for me.  Annnnnyway...

[Dick Pontoon]

I think bupkis is spelled with one 's'.

And it is a shame.

[october]

On 4/24/2022 at 3:56 PM, Sal said:

This is the kind of collection wherein it would really have been nice for CGC to offer up a custom label.  It's a shame the provenance of these OO books is going to get essentially wiped out by dispersal in the market, like the Jon Berk/Mound City/Slobodian/Cleveland etc runs.  A custom label wouldn't of course guarantee anything after sales but it's a shame the hobby's two options are Pedigree and bupkiss.

Hell, even a sticker would have been cool. I for one will never resub my old slab Pac Coast books with the stickers.  It's history-within-history for me.  Annnnnyway...

Agree. The Berk books were labelled though. At least mine was. Or did you mean just the Silver?

Edited April 24, 2022 by october

[lighthouse]

On 4/24/2022 at 4:56 PM, Sal said:

This is the kind of collection wherein it would really have been nice for CGC to offer up a custom label.  It's a shame the provenance of these OO books is going to get essentially wiped out by dispersal in the market, like the Jon Berk/Mound City/Slobodian/Cleveland etc runs.  A custom label wouldn't of course guarantee anything after sales but it's a shame the hobby's two options are Pedigree and bupkiss.

Hell, even a sticker would have been cool. I for one will never resub my old slab Pac Coast books with the stickers.  It's history-within-history for me.  Annnnnyway...

Fwiw I will be doing COAs for every book I sell from the collection, both raw and slabbed. Heritage won’t be selling any of the raw books, and every listing they do from the collection is searchable as Truckee Meadows on their website forever.

The only five books “sold” so far are the first five from the April Signature. No other books have yet sold (though many are in Heritage’s pipeline). I’ve taken offers on a few, both raw and slabbed. But no other books have been transacted yet.

[Sal]

On 4/24/2022 at 5:53 PM, october said:

Agree. The Berk books were labelled though. At least mine was. Or did you mean just the Silver?

Can't be sure, but i suspect i was thinking about the David N. Toth books.  Hell, who knows these days my brain looks at a sieve with jealousy

[buttock]

On 4/24/2022 at 5:27 PM, lighthouse said:

Fwiw I will be doing COAs for every book I sell from the collection, both raw and slabbed. Heritage won’t be selling any of the raw books, and every listing they do from the collection is searchable as Truckee Meadows on their website forever.

The only five books “sold” so far are the first five from the April Signature. No other books have yet sold (though many are in Heritage’s pipeline). I’ve taken offers on a few, both raw and slabbed. But no other books have been transacted yet.

[tth2]

On 4/25/2022 at 8:42 PM, Sal said:

On 4/25/2022 at 5:53 AM, october said:

Agree. The Berk books were labelled though. At least mine was. Or did you mean just the Silver?

Can't be sure, but i suspect i was thinking about the David N. Toth books.  Hell, who knows these days my brain looks at a sieve with jealousy

I think you're thinking about the Toth books.  Many of them have resold on Heritage with nary a reference to their provenance.