Bubble wrap helps protect the cards and tracking allows buyer and seller (or trade partners) to give transparency in shipping.īVG - Beckett Vintage Grading - The main grading service provided by Beckett ( for vintage cards (pre-1981). Almost never guaranteeing any hits, they will often have some sort of exclusive parallel card(s) included.īMWT - Bubble Mailer With Tracking - the hobby standard for sending small amounts of card. Buy It Now is a set price that a purchaser will pay for an item.īlaster Box - Blaster boxes will be found at Retail locations (although people/hobby shops will purchase them and resell them depending on their popularity) and are usually in the $20 price range. For baseball card grading, it is one of the two most popular companies.īIN - Buy It Now - one of the two main options when selling an item on eBay (the main marketplace for baseball cards), with the other being a traditional auction.
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That should give the card owner a rough idea of what their card would get if submitted for the full grading process, although it is not a promise of what their card would get.īGS - Beckett Grading Service - The main grading service provided by Beckett ( for modern cards (1981 - present). Beckett Raw Card Review - Service that Beckett offers, typically at card shows, that takes a raw, ungraded card and does a very quick and unscientific review of the card and assigns it a grade. They supply card sleeves, binder pages, storage boxes, etc. For example, a BCCG 10 if resubmitted to BGS would likely get an 8, maybe a 9 if lucky.īCW - One of the major card supplies companies in the industry, BCW originally stood for Baseball Card World. Generally not considered to be representative of a grade you would receive if submitted to BGS/BVG/PSA. Products like Topps High Tek and Clearly Authentic are made only using acetate stock, while other products will have acetate inserts like the Clear parallel for Topps Flagship base cards.Īuthentication - When an authentication company like PSA or Beckett will authenticate the card itself or more often the signature on the card or other piece of memorabilia as being authentic and not a forgery/fake.ī/S/T - Buy/Sell/Trade - An acronym often used in social media threads, especially with character restrictions (Twitter) for the buying, selling, and trading of cards and memorabilia.īCCG - Beckett Collectors Club Grading - A mass grading service provided by Beckett ( that is often found in re-packaged products in retail locations. Acetate-based cards tend to have less value than equivalent cardboard-based cards.
Prospect Card Collecting Baseball Card DictionaryĪcetate - Rather than the traditional cardboard-based stock used to make cards, Acetate is a translucent, almost plastic-like stock. If you are looking for links to other Baseball Card Foundation articles: If you have any questions on these definitions or come across a word or abbreviation not in this list, head on over to the Prospects Live Discord and hit me and the other collectors up in the Baseball Card channel. After a 25-year hiatus myself, I found a lot of new vocabulary and abbreviations that I knew nothing about, and I still come across terms that leave me scratching my head.
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An essential component to my series of articles that focus on the newly returning and new to the hobby collectors is getting them up to speed on the terminology.
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