CARDBOARDFILE
where the information on this site comes from
One page per card. What the card is, how it was printed, why it survives in the grades it does, and what copies have sold for. Each page is written by hand rather than generated from a feed.
A card earns a page when there is something true and specific to say about it that is not already obvious from a price guide. That is usually one of four things: it is the card a set is known for, its population behaves in a way worth explaining, its history is misreported elsewhere, or it is a card people keep buying by mistake for another one.
Being expensive is not on that list, and neither is being famous. Several pages here are about commons. A set page shows the whole checklist regardless, so the cards without a page are visible rather than quietly missing.
A population report counts what a grading company has recorded. It is not a census of what survives. Cards that were never submitted are not in it, and on cheap cards that is most of them. This site writes "PSA records 67" rather than "67 exist", because the first is what the source supports.
Different companies use different scales and they are not interchangeable. A BGS 9.5 is not a PSA 10. Where a card has been graded by more than one company, the one with the most recorded copies gets the full ladder and the others are summarised, and no row ever mixes two scales.
Where a grader has been checked and had recorded nothing, the page says so. Where a grader has not been checked, the page says nothing at all. Those are different statements and the site keeps them apart.
A share or a cumulative column appears only when a row explicitly records the total graded. Without that number there is no honest denominator, so the page shows counts alone rather than a percentage of a figure nobody stated.
Every sale carries a date, because a price without one describes nothing. Where several sales exist they are all shown, including the ones that make a trend look worse.
Each sale is labelled with how it happened. An auction result is a price a room arrived at. A private sale is a price two parties agreed and somebody reported. A fixed-price sale is an asking price that was met. A reported figure comes from a survey or an article rather than a record of the transaction. They are not the same evidence and the page does not present them as though they were.
Figures published by an auction house normally include the buyer's premium, so the number shown is more than the consignor received and more than the hammer price. Sales from marketplaces usually do not work that way, which is one reason two figures for the same card are not always comparable.
No live prices, no valuations, no estimates of what a card is worth today. Those numbers go stale within weeks and there are already places to find them.
No multipliers between grades either. The gap between a PSA 8 and a PSA 9 moves with the market and publishing a ratio implies a stability the sales do not show.
Population figures are a snapshot read on a stated date, not a live count. Recorded sales are past results with the date attached. A sale that happened is a permanent fact; what a card would fetch tomorrow is not.
No counterfeit checklists. Naming a single feature as the test is how somebody buys a fake made after that feature became well known. Where a card is faked, the pages say so and say to verify the certificate.
A set page shows every card on the checklist, whether or not anything has been written about it. Cards with a page are links; the rest are grey. That is honest about how much of a set is covered, and it means the missing entries are visible rather than silently absent.
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If something here is wrong, it should be fixed. Every page is hand written and hand written pages contain mistakes. Pages have been corrected after publication and will be again; a claim being on this site is not evidence that it is right.