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James J Johnson

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  • Birthday 12/01/1965

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  1. Djangology, as in Django Reinhardt or Eldar Djangirov?
  2. With an estimated population of 75 existing cards, the Wagner is another card that really isn't as scarce as many others that sell for far, far less.
  3. I'm like Mr. October, only year-round.
  4. Here's some food for thought. CGC yellow label signature series slabbed books typically bring a premium above their blue label unsigned counterparts in similar grade. This is a case where foreign material is added, ink, marker, paint, gel, etc. to the book. Technically it's been color touched. The rationale behind the addition of that ink or paint differs but the adding of the ink/paint is intentional and whether a deliberate attempt to improve the apparent condition or simply to have the creator's track for a keepsake and its additional value to the whole, the result is the same. Added ink/paint to the book, as in color touch. The major difference in this result, after signing or color touch, is that a minimally color touched book, say a few dots of color on several spine stresses typically adds from 1/1,000th to 1/100,000th the amount of ink to the book that a creator signature does. Now I'm not speaking of moderately to extensively restored hack jobs with acrylic paint or marker/crayon swathed over large areas. I'm referring to minimally restored books with barely detectable (for all except CGC) precisely placed dots of color used to conceal small fractures in the color. A book with even a modest sized sharpie signature on the cover will have thousands of times the amount of ink added to the book than one with several dots of color touch. If you consider this, and the fact that a book with several dots of color that can't easily be seen can be bought for roughly 1/5th to 1/2 of the price, maybe they're not quite as bad or dastardly as most think when bought with full disclosure at a price that adequately reflects the restoration.