What does it mean to submit a card for grading with SGC or PSA with a "minimum grade" requirement? What are the pros and cons of this service option? Let's take a look at SGC and PSA minimum grade policies, so you can make the best choice with your submission. One key...
Seasoned collectors can quickly recognize the year of any Topps vintage baseball cards with just a quick glance. But if you are just getting started or need a handy reference, Cardhound is here to help. "Vintage" is in the eye of the beholder, but not many will argue...
This post is designed as a "pinned post" for the Vintage Baseball Cards Facebook group. VBC is one of the largest all-vintage groups anywhere, with over 54,000 members. It's a great place to buy, sell, and trade vintage baseball cards, but there's a lot to know to do...
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...
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...
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 spend time photographing and...
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...
At first glance, the topic of how tariffs might affect hobbyists seems like a very first-world problem. But let's not forget that this is an industry many depend on to put those expensive groceries on the table. Regardless of your politics or opinions on tariffs,...
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 figures have...
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...
