• NEWS: PCGS To Encapsulate All Collectible Merchandise

    From longnine009@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 1 07:08:59 2016
    Thankyou for that report Ken. You know their new large collectible enslabulation facility may be the speculation opportunity of a lifetime. It is of course just my opinion, but heck, "one word Ben:" Yap Stones.

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  • From Ken Barr@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 1 01:32:38 2016
    Hmmmmm, I just found the following article posted in the news.announce.biznessstuff.whatever newsgroup ... I wonder what effect
    this will have on the collectibles market?!?

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    PCGS To Encapsulate All Collectible Merchandise
    (April 1, 2016) (API Newswire) (Newport Beach, California)

    The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS), a division of Collectors
    Universe (NASDAQ: CLCT) has announced their intention to expand their
    product offerings across the entire spectrum of collectibles.

    PCGS President Donn Williss , in a press conference held at the annual Collectibles and Other Stuff Trade Show and Tax-Deductible Vacation
    event taking place in Honolulu, Hawaii displayed samples and discussed
    PCGS's expansion plans. "We intend to provide authentication, grading
    and encapsulation for virtually ALL collectible items, adding to our
    current portfolio of coins, stamps, sportscards and comic books."

    For example, he continued, "We've already contracted with the Van Gogh
    Museum in Amsterdam to slab Vincent Van Gogh's painting titled
    'Sunflowers'. They think the public will get a better appreciation of
    the work if they can get closer to it, and actually place their hands on
    the lucite encapsulation. We're working on the Louvre to get the Mona
    Lisa slabbed, but they are not on board yet. Similarly, the National
    Toy Museum in Texasapolis, Texas is having us slab their First Edition
    Mint In Box G. I. Joe and Barbie dolls so that the young visitors to the
    museum can actually play with the slabs without risking any damage to
    the Mint Box. The National Gambling Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada is
    having us slab a very rare ashtray from a special suite in the old Sands
    Hotel, purportedly still containing ashes from one of Frank Sinatra's cigarettes. It appears to be in Used 30 condition, and will have a
    appropriate 'Rat Pack' label embedded in the lucite. We had a lot of
    trouble preparing an appropriate slab for a very special collectible,
    the first 'meadow muffin' produced by the great thoroughbred Secretariat
    after winning the Triple Crown in 1973. We have a letter of
    authentication signed by both the owner and the trainer identifying this
    as the First Emission, and have designed a special label reflecting that designation. The slab itself is also unique, with a small shaft leading
    from the top of the slab to the embedded item, so that the full aromatic experience can be appreciated if the airtight cover is removed. The
    owner assures us that the cover will only be removed under very special circumstances, such as wanting to impress a new girlfriend."

    The new Vice President of Everything Else, Lucite DuPont, announced a
    very special item which will be slabbed shortly. "The purchaser of the
    very first Tesla Model 3 electric car, sold just yesterday, has
    contracted to have it shipped directly from the assembly line to our
    Large Collectible Slabbing Facility in an unnamed town in ... let's say Nebraska. There, after careful inspection to assure that there was no
    damage in shipment, we expect it to be slabbed as a BO-100, the highest
    grade possible on the Barney-Oldfield automobile grading standard."
    When asked how it was possible to slab something that big, DuPont stated
    that "We've done several items of this size already, from a retired drug-running submarine for El Chapo to a Hummer H-1 for Arnold
    Schwartzenegger who said the backseat had a 'very special significance'.
    In fact, the first large item we slabbed was my grandfather, Arnold 'Whatchutalkingbout' DuPont, who to this day looks exactly like the old wrinkled man he was on the day he died."

    Pricing on these Everything Else services will vary, depending on the
    size of the item, the difficulty required in providing
    authenticity/grading, shipping, and the color of ink to be used on the
    label. "We'll try to be reasonable", DuPont stated, "but anyone wanting
    this kind of custom product should expect to pay a professional price.
    Plastic ain't cheap, ya know ...".

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    P. O. Box 32541             website:  http://www.kenbarr.com
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  • From farmer dave@21:1/5 to Ken Barr on Fri Apr 1 05:25:18 2016
    THANK YOU!!



    On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 01:32:38 -0700, Ken Barr <ken@kenbarr.com> wrote:

    Hmmmmm, I just found the following article posted in the >news.announce.biznessstuff.whatever newsgroup ... I wonder what effect
    this will have on the collectibles market?!?

    ========================================================

    PCGS To Encapsulate All Collectible Merchandise
    (April 1, 2016) (API Newswire) (Newport Beach, California)

    The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS), a division of Collectors >Universe (NASDAQ: CLCT) has announced their intention to expand their
    product offerings across the entire spectrum of collectibles.

    PCGS President Donn Williss , in a press conference held at the annual >Collectibles and Other Stuff Trade Show and Tax-Deductible Vacation
    event taking place in Honolulu, Hawaii displayed samples and discussed
    PCGS's expansion plans. "We intend to provide authentication, grading
    and encapsulation for virtually ALL collectible items, adding to our
    current portfolio of coins, stamps, sportscards and comic books."

    For example, he continued, "We've already contracted with the Van Gogh
    Museum in Amsterdam to slab Vincent Van Gogh's painting titled
    'Sunflowers'. They think the public will get a better appreciation of
    the work if they can get closer to it, and actually place their hands on
    the lucite encapsulation. We're working on the Louvre to get the Mona
    Lisa slabbed, but they are not on board yet. Similarly, the National
    Toy Museum in Texasapolis, Texas is having us slab their First Edition
    Mint In Box G. I. Joe and Barbie dolls so that the young visitors to the >museum can actually play with the slabs without risking any damage to
    the Mint Box. The National Gambling Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada is
    having us slab a very rare ashtray from a special suite in the old Sands >Hotel, purportedly still containing ashes from one of Frank Sinatra's >cigarettes. It appears to be in Used 30 condition, and will have a >appropriate 'Rat Pack' label embedded in the lucite. We had a lot of
    trouble preparing an appropriate slab for a very special collectible,
    the first 'meadow muffin' produced by the great thoroughbred Secretariat >after winning the Triple Crown in 1973. We have a letter of
    authentication signed by both the owner and the trainer identifying this
    as the First Emission, and have designed a special label reflecting that >designation. The slab itself is also unique, with a small shaft leading
    from the top of the slab to the embedded item, so that the full aromatic >experience can be appreciated if the airtight cover is removed. The
    owner assures us that the cover will only be removed under very special >circumstances, such as wanting to impress a new girlfriend."

    The new Vice President of Everything Else, Lucite DuPont, announced a
    very special item which will be slabbed shortly. "The purchaser of the
    very first Tesla Model 3 electric car, sold just yesterday, has
    contracted to have it shipped directly from the assembly line to our
    Large Collectible Slabbing Facility in an unnamed town in ... let's say >Nebraska. There, after careful inspection to assure that there was no
    damage in shipment, we expect it to be slabbed as a BO-100, the highest
    grade possible on the Barney-Oldfield automobile grading standard."
    When asked how it was possible to slab something that big, DuPont stated
    that "We've done several items of this size already, from a retired >drug-running submarine for El Chapo to a Hummer H-1 for Arnold >Schwartzenegger who said the backseat had a 'very special significance'.
    In fact, the first large item we slabbed was my grandfather, Arnold >'Whatchutalkingbout' DuPont, who to this day looks exactly like the old >wrinkled man he was on the day he died."

    Pricing on these Everything Else services will vary, depending on the
    size of the item, the difficulty required in providing
    authenticity/grading, shipping, and the color of ink to be used on the
    label. "We'll try to be reasonable", DuPont stated, "but anyone wanting
    this kind of custom product should expect to pay a professional price. >Plastic ain't cheap, ya know ...".

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