by Matt Felumlee | Apr 21, 2025 | Vintage Sports Cards FAQ
A new scam trend is sweeping through the vintage groups on Facebook: cloned profiles. In this post I will detail what the scam is and how it works, as well as provide a few tips on how to avoid falling victim to a cloned profile scam. I was contacted just this morning...
by Matt Felumlee | Apr 19, 2025 | News and Reviews
I had a hunch based on the last several months of sending and receiving packages via USPS: the mail is getting slower by the month. First class / Ground Advantage, Priority . . . USPS is slower than in years past. And some digging around in recent headlines seems to...
by Matt Felumlee | Apr 18, 2025 | Vintage Sports Cards FAQ
I am an admin of many vintage-focused Facebook groups large and small. A very frequent question–especially in the 50k member group–goes something like this: “Why isn’t anyone seeing my sales posts?” It can be a frustrating experience to...
by Arthur Monning | Apr 12, 2025 | Feature Stories
Introduction for Cardhound Vintage This spring, I had the opportunity to take a course titled “On Paper.” The focus of the class was simple enough: to “explore the history of paper as an introduction to human innovation and the global humanities.” While initially...
by Matt Felumlee | Apr 8, 2025 | Feature Stories
At risk of sounding like I am politicizing an issue unnecessarily, I think tariff talk is important. At first glance, the topic of how tariffs might affect hobbyists seems like a very first-world problem. But it’s bigger than that. This is an industry many...
by Matt Felumlee | Mar 19, 2025 | News and Reviews
I knew this day would come. It was a question of when, not if, Jackie Robinson and others would be erased from official U.S. government web sites. For now, the Jackie erasure was temporary and apparently a “mistake.” Other significant American military...
by Matt Felumlee | Mar 12, 2025 | Feature Stories
Cardhound Has a Birthday! Cardhound Vintage launched one year ago this week! 100+ articles later, we have built a membership of nearly 600 and regularly reach over 5,000 new readers / viewers each month. To celebrate, and to plan for 2025, we are giving a poll to...
by Matt Felumlee | Mar 3, 2025 | News and Reviews
This isn’t exactly breaking news, but PSA made some under-the-radar changes to its grading standards recently. In particular, PSA tightened up its centering criteria, which lagged against other major graders. A consideration of the implications of this major...
by Matt Felumlee | Mar 2, 2025 | News and Reviews
Most collectors know that 2024 was a record year for the card grading industry. While the biggest gains were in TCG (Pokemon etc.), modern and vintage sports also broke volume records. With the COVID collecting boom in the rearview, these numbers are impressive. Can...
by Matt Felumlee | Feb 28, 2025 | Vintage Sports Cards FAQ
If you’re an SGC grading regular, this SGC Grading Updates post is for you. Bookmark it and check back any time you have a question. It will be updated frequently as needed. The SGC message boards are often flooded with the same few questions asked over and over...
