Join us on the Board for a Guest Expert Forum August 5-11 2024 for Q&A about understanding card condition, card grading, and how they relate to card value. We will share some Cardhound resources, and you should feel free to post pictures, ask questions, share opinions, and discuss tools, methods, resources, and strategies for assessing cards for sale raw or for grading. Respond to one of my posts below or start your own! 

Cardhound founder Matt Felumlee will sit in as resident expert--and will invite some other experienced 'Hounds to help out! This is a great opportunity to ask those "new to vintage" questions that sometimes attract less-than-helpful replies on Facebook etc. Your beginner questions are welcome here!

Have you considered consigning to an auction house, but want to learn more about the process? Want some tips on how to find the good deals at auction? Come hang out in our Guest Expert Forum during the dates above.

Our hosts Al Crisafulli from Love of the Game and Ryan Christoff of Cuban Baseball Auctions both own and operate specialty auction houses and have decades of cardhounding experience chasing down some of the most unique consignments you'll find.

Use the red "Add Topic" button to post questions early and then check back for responses and chat throughout the week. Note: you can also click to subscribe to topics and receive notifications on the Board or via email (might need to check Junk folder). 

Reps from VCP (Vintage Card Prices) and mega dealer Ashsh Jai of Legacy Cardz will join the Forum to give insights on market trends, and valuing cards and collections.

Post questions beginning any time this is visible, and check back Tuesday to Thursday, May 21-23, for responses and chat. 

Are you looking to grow your Vintage following on social media? Wanting tips for starting a successful Facebook group, Youtube channel, or Twitter or Instagram profile? Post questions any time April 29-May 3 and our esteemed panel of Vintage / Social Media specialists will chime in with answers. 

Post and win! Anyone who posts a question in this Forum is automatically entered into a drawing for a $100 spot in a Burl's Sports next break! Courtesy of Burl's Sports and Cardhound Vintage. 

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Our Guest Experts this week are as follows--please like and subscribe! : ) 

1. @vintage_slab_man_ (Instagram) Steve started collecting as a young kid (9 years old) in 83-84 and was hooked by 85. (I bet he owned a Gooden or 10 in 85 like me). He has 5k followers and in my opinion just a fun-as-hell approach to sharing and spreading awareness of cool vintage content.

2. Burl (Justin Burleson) of Burl's Sports (cool vintage breaks and more). Justin has 6k followers on Twitter and focuses on content directly related to his card business.

3. Cards With a Story (@CardsStory on Twitter, IG: CardsWithAStory_) is Dylan Brennan. His weekly sales thread on Twitter is my only use of that entire platform! So much fun.

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People are interested in sports cards for many reasons . . . casual collecting, nostalgia, investment, flipping for profit. Many of us have daydreamed about “opening a little card shop someday,” but have you ever wondered what the day-to-day of turning your dream into reality might look like? (Spoiler alert: it’s not easy). If you are interested in starting your own card biz or just want to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes, this Forum is for you.

This Guest Expert Forum features 3 hobby pros who all formed very different kinds of card businesses. Join us in the Forum any time between April 16 and April 18, 2024 for some engaging and informative Q&A!

Our three Guest Experts are:

Justin Farber, owner of T206 Cards

Brian Roth, owner of Card Soup

Eric Drew, owner of Boca Card Subs

Full bios posted in the Forum soon.

*full disclosure: T206 Cards and Boca Card Subs are both advertisers on Cardhound Vintage. Guest Expert Forums are open to anyone interested in sharing their hobby passion and expertise! 

UPDATE: To post new questions, please click the Forum title and then click "ADD TOPIC" to the right >>>> and title your question. This will help the forum stay more organized. Thanks!

What is this? We will feature "Guest Expert Forums" from time to time--the idea is that a resident expert or 2 will sit in for a few days for an AMA ("ask me anything")-type-session. We will post bios, links to their current projects if relevant, etc. Then the gates are open--all members can pop in during the event to ask thoughtful questions of our guests. After the session is complete, it will move to an Archive forum where it can live in infamy for future reading.

Rules: The rules are pretty simple: Please limit yourself to one or two good questions per presenter at first, out of respect for everyone's time. If conversation dwindles at any point, feel free to jump back in. The thread will be closely moderated, and redundant questions may be removed. No offense if this happens--again, just trying to respect everyone's time and avoid repetition. Thanks in advance! These should be fun and insanely informative and thought-provoking. 

Interested in vintage baseball photography, baseball art, or anything in between? Join us for our first Guest Expert AMA (“ask me anything”) Forum event on the Cardhound Vintage Collector’s Club Board. Stop in any time April 9, 10, 11, ask a question or 2, and check back later for replies. After April 11 the Forum will be archived for future reference.

Our guest experts are true authorities on the subject: Paul Reiferson and Graig Kreindler.

Paul is an investor, wealth advisor, and avid collector and is drawn to photographs and objects that tell American stories. His collection of photographs taken by Charles M. Conlon was gifted in part and promised in part to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it will be exhibited. Other objects from his collection have been exhibited widely, including at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, American Folk Art Museum, and Tampa Museum of Art.

The Gitterman Gallery will host an exhibition of Paul’s collection titled Jackie Robinson and the Color Line, “which uses photographs and artifacts to vividly narrate the story of baseball’s journey toward integration. The exhibition opens on Monday, April 15th in honor of Major League Baseball’s Jackie Robinson Day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and runs through Friday, May 24th.”

Graig is a renown painter, and his work is grounded in vintage baseball photography. He graduated with Honors from the School of Visual Arts in New York City with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration. His award-winning sports work has appeared in juried shows and museums across the United States, and has been featured in nationally-distributed books, newspapers, magazines, on the Internet and television.

To Graig, no other sport embodies the relationship between generations and the sense of community like baseball. His goal is to portray the national pastime in an era when players were accessibly human, and the atmosphere of a welcoming ballpark was just as important as what happened on the field. He is proud to act as a visual historian, recreating a history that he has never experienced, yet, like millions of fans, maintains a profound connection with. You can see examples of Graig’s fine paintings on his web site.