90s Topps Finest - Peel or Leave Coating?

Peel or Leave the coat on?

  • Peel it off

    Votes: 13 30.2%
  • Leave it on

    Votes: 30 69.8%

  • Total voters
    43

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I received a couple of 90s Topps Finest cards, if I want to preserve its value, i would leave the coating on i assume?

Cheers guys
 
i used to love peeling em off as you could see the real beauty of them then

Thats whats im finding so tempting! One of them is the Kidd RC and it features a wide variety of colours, but it looks so dull with the coating over the card. I'm still leaning towards keeping the coat on though.

I'll receive the 1995 Kidd Finest Refractor hopefully real soon and its also unpeeled.
 
It says 'peel' so thats what intended to happen. Once peeled great care is needed to keep the cards clean and smudge free but like you said its more visually appealing. If grading the surface is the peel and any bubbles or imperfections are graded down of course. The easy way out is to have both peeled and non peeled, thats my pc.
 
If that was a lowend card u can peel that off, but if it is kobe rc, never
its always been an article on the beckett mag "the appeal of the peel" oh the good ol days,
 
Don't peel...... though I always peel cards like 05-0t Trilogy for example (unless I am planning on selling)...... don't see the point on leaving it on otherwise as you couldn't see the card...... this hobby is about enjoying it, if you can't see the card, peel it off & enjoy it! :thumbsup:
 
It says 'peel' so thats what intended to happen. Once peeled great care is needed to keep the cards clean and smudge free but like you said its more visually appealing. If grading the surface is the peel and any bubbles or imperfections are graded down of course. The easy way out is to have both peeled and non peeled, thats my pc.

i agree with Contador, get 2 of the same card, peel one, leave the other on, thats what i do also, gets a bit tedious with player pc's as most of the time you end up with 4-6 cards, common peeled and unpeeled, refractor peeled and unpeeled, xfractor/embossed refractor peeled and unpeeled
 
Just for the record, Slobby takes his barbies out of the packaging so he can play with them. Its a doll after all not a collectable.

Although based on his pc of cards I'm sure he has two of each dolls, one in box and one out.

Hope this helps.
 
It really depends on what you want to do with the card, if it is purely a PC item then just peel the card and reveal its true beauty. But if you are planning to sell it, you might want to keep it on because it simply gives you the choice later on to peel.

In some cases, if you plan to send it in for grading, you might actually want to peel it off because damages to the protector counts against your card. You rather have a spotless peeled card then a scratched unpeeled card. Personally, I see no difference in peeled or unpeeled versions, its the same card, cards are never meant to have protectors anyway...
 
Just for the record, Slobby takes his barbies out of the packaging so he can play with them. Its a doll after all not a collectable.

Although based on his pc of cards I'm sure he has two of each dolls, one in box and one out.

Hope this helps.

:lol:i only started getting 2 when you wanted to play with them....still not sure about your facination with "Speedo Ken":lol:
 
Cheers guys, im leaning towards NOT peeling...Even though its PC and i intend of keeping all of my Kidd cards for a while after he retires, i can't see how peeling the cover would reduce the cards value if i decided to sell them one day. Also if its still unpeeled, i still have the option of peeling it off whenever i like.
 
Thread resurrection.

When you send in cards to beckett for grading, will they peel it for you if you ask them to? So that the peel preserves the card right until they go to grade it.

Chris
 
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