Here you can see lots of older sealed items and PSA graded cards from various eras. Updates for my binder collections and other random stuff might happen occasionally. Sit tight and enjoy the ride!
Good luck! I love the English crystals. They can be a real challenge to get good grades on as well. No matter how easy @milhouse makes it look. Haha. I’ve already been disappointed twice now in my search for a PSA 10 Crystal Kingdra.
For now my goal is to have japanese gold star cards from Mudkip to Flareon with minimum grade of 9, and preferably 1st editions. No pressure here about obtaining every card as gem mint 10.
Still waiting for my psa returns, one of the cards was mislabeled so my friend had to call psa and get that fixed, hopefully I’ll get them next week.
But that doesn’t stop me updating this thread, got these bad boys yesterday!
Just fantastic looking cards, big thanks to @darkrai .
The gold star cards are all beautiful. *__*
I love how you present them in dropbox. Makes scrolling through a lot quicker to see more cards in shorter time.
So true!
I have a hard time explaining to people who haven’t tried to collect Gold Stars, particularly English Gold stars, just how hard it is to get them in PSA 10 quality.
I understand this totally! Part of the reason, in my opinion, is that kids and younger collectors don’t immediately recognize the value and rarity of Gold Stars. To some, they look like an average Holo with neat artwork. This would explain why you see Gold Stars mixed in with lots of 500+ random cards.
They were often playable. So of the relatively small number printed, many were played.
They were made poorly, so card integrity was hard to maintain.
Packaging wasn’t great, so it often damaged the already weak cards inside the packages.
The game wasn’t as popular at the time they were printed, so lower values meant less of a reason to really protect them and fewer collectors meant fewer people going out of their way to protect them.
Those are just the reasons from the top of my head. There are probably more.
tl;dr It was these cards against the world. Few made it.
Finally after all the possible ( and impossible ) delays I finally received my cards back, someone at Finnish postal services decided to send my package to totally wrong city, ~200 kilometres from where I live. But without further ado, pictures!
Yes @timewaster1700 , it was like a Christmas to me when I got results from my friend: 7x psa 9 + 9x psa 10! Honestly I was expecting Rayquaza/Shining Charizard to be 8 but psa gave positive surprise this time, both nines. Can’t complain about that.
For bonus picture we have PSA 10 Crystal Crobat.
Oh man, this has been one of the hardest card to find for me, there just wasn’t any psa 9-10 listed on ebay for months. Luckily @thecharizardauthorty was nice enough to sell one from his latest psa returns. So thanks again for that, now I’m done with my crystal collection at least.
It will be like Christmas for you I’m sure 
