I am not a big fan of modern graded cards, I would
rather have a cool card in one of my binders or within the collection that it
belongs, I don’t want one slabbed card here and the rest of the collection
there.
So far I have broken 6-8 cards out from their encased prison and I have had no problems. Beckett and PSA slabs are pretty simple when cracking the case but today I came across an All-Star Grading case, which is sealed a bit differently. Today I inflicted damage on a poor defenseless Griffey card and I now feel sorrow for my cardboard sin.
The card is nothing major, a 1991 Front Row #9 blank
back that cost under $3 so the pain I feel is pretty minor. Actually the seller
sent the wrong card at first (which I already had) and told me to keep it
before sending the correct card so I got two cards for the price of one.
The All-Star Grading cases are crimped along the edges
so the flathead screwdriver does not fit in flat so to break away the case you
need to be very careful to move the tool along the edge and unfortunately I
caught the upper right corner on the front of the card and it separated the
paper and bent the corner.
I knew this day would come and I was lucky enough it
happened where there damage as minimal and the card had a low value.
