Does anyone collect slabs? For example, one from every grading company, whether it be PCGS or some 3rd world grader. I think it would be a pretty cool collection to have.
I have seen a website that has a list of known grading companies and most have a picture of the slab used. I belive it was over 300 diffrent graders listed. I dont remember the website though. It would be a neat collection to see.
The first one sold out in 2003. You might find a used copy someplace, but I doubt it. As for the new one, it aint finished yet.
Have you guys ever seen the black colored NGC slab? I've only seen a couple of them. Here is a link depicting one: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2248765
Hello Evorlor, Yes I'm the guy who collects slabs, not just every company but every holder variety from each company. I'm not the only person who collects them but most just concentrate on the slabs of one company, and then there is Sampleslab mentioned earlier in the thread. He collects all the companies, but only the Sample slabs that they have produced. (Slabs can be broken down into five types, Production slabs, Sample slabs, Novelty slabs, Presentation slabs, and Advertising slabs. There are also Bodybags, and some Miscellaneous stuff.) As mentioned the slabbook has been out of print for quite some time now and copies are basically impossible to get. I haven't seen a copy on the market in two years now. People keep after me to do a third printing but the information is so out of date right now that I really don't want a third printing, I want a second edition. (The first book had the information and products of 82 companies. I currently have notes on over 150 companies.) I have been working on a revision but I spend way too much time on the coin forums and way too little time writing. I have to admit the sheer number of fly-by-night and self slabbers has made me a little depressed because I really just can't kep up with them. (In the first book I illustrated the first of the Generic shells produced by Coin World and predicted then that they would result in runaway numbers of grading services. Now that you didn't have the great expense of creating your own shells everyone and his brother would open his own grading service. Unfortunately I was right.) It also didn't help me when ebay implemented their rule that you could only mention the grading service if it was one of the accepted five companies. It sed to be one of my prime searching sources for new companies. I could search for Grading Service and use a -PCGS -NGC -ANACS etc and get rid of all of the services I knew about. Then the new ones would pop up. I can't do that now and often by the time I learn of a new company or holder the chance to get one is gone and often they never come back. So what I am working on now is something like a 1 1/2 edition which will list everything that was in the first book, An update of all the new varieties for the major services, and just a list of all of the new companies that I know of. I probably won't be able to show examples from all the new companies and I will be mainly concentrating on just the production varieties. Hopefully that will buy me some more time. Even so the book will be big. Last time I used larger than life size images of all the varieties and one variety per page. This time they will probably have to be life size or three quarters and two varieties per page. That means rewriting the whole book and reformatting everything. And it will probably still be close to the 436 pages the last one was. It's just a LOT of work.
Wow. I am not sure which must be more work. Making the book or filling it. When do you expect the book to be released?
