BEATER WAR!

That's right fellas, it's that time again. Show us your well loved, your bruised, burned and scarred. Let's see some beaters.

Rules: your card must have at least one catastrophic flaw to qualify. Anything beyond that = bonus. Last man standing is declared champion of the beater war.

I'll save my big guns for later, but for now here's a dog of a e96 Dooin to get us rolling:



Description:
-Exhibits only minor corner rounding
-A few light caramel stains.
-One vertical crease and a few wrinkles that don't detract for the overall appearance.
-PERFECT centering and great color! (Cheeks are VERY rosy)

Not my worst, but close



Jay

EvidTrm
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It is painfully obvious that I should never attempt to post pictures here. My apologies for not having a clue about what I am doing.

-fixed. You had everything right, just paste the 2nd of the 3 links you get after you upload (instead of the 3rd) next time.

Oh, you wait until I get my scanner warmed up. I have a new pickup that meets this exact criteria.

And in the meantime, there's always this T216 Virginia Extra. Not too bad, but still a beater.

BOOO that e94 lajoie will look GEMT MINT when the real beaters come out! i think Gil and Jay are the favs here but knowing Ben he has some cards up his sleeve...that makes him the dark horse.

that's not even the worst t216 Bridwell (I don't own this any more)



Jay

I just got back from the show here in ATL. I got some VERY bad news from JSA, so I thought I would go ahead and buy something. Since the JSA verdict cost me some good money, and few K I have already dropped this month, I was having a hard time freeing up the wallet.
This one made me feel OK about the day!

Does this one Qualify, it is a 10. Closest thing I have to a Beater

It is interesting to see try to figure out the threshold between SGC A and SGC 10, as evidenced by the last two cards.

This isn't mine so it doesn't really count, but I got a chuckle out of this T204 Bender that was on ebay recently.

"Corners are slightly rounded, otherwise very presentable!"

Remember what it sold for?

ItsOnlyGil wrote:Remember what it sold for?

It was listed with a $80 BIN/Best Offer.

It didn't get any bids or offers.

Gil, bust out that CJ Mack I sold you.

Jay

....not pre-war. Has a little bit of everything; stains, paper loss, tape, tape residue, creases, pinholes, oh and if you look closely and at just the right angle you can see a surface wrinkle. The back is in great shape!

Jay - this is a beaters only thread. That Mack wasn't a beater.

Well maybe a little, but mostly on the bottom.

But a torn and tattered Mack right during the time when he had to sell off the dynasty he created, is so fitting.

A true beater!

Got this to fill a hole in my collection only to get another 6 days later (Still waiting for that packge)!!!!

Needed a card of Bill Lindsay:

Gil - I needed him for a collection of 1911 Naps players.

Here's a scarce hockey card beater. It's from the C57 set, which is kinda like hockey's version of E107: