Taylor Family Collection?

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From what I remember, Taylor Family was a pseudonym for Sterling Crum, who amassed a large, prestigious collection. Most of his collection was sold privately and some of it was sold (raw) in a 2005 Heritage Signature auction. Many of the notes that sold in 2005 went to CGA to be graded and the notation on the holder was made then. CGA was the dominant third party grader at the time. Today, it's kinda of a good news/bad news scenario....the good news is, the note is an ex-Sterling Crum note, and the bad news is, it's in a CGA holder.

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I have many CGA notes. Some I've crossed to PMG and some remain in the CGA holders. CGA never had a problem with moderns so your notes are fine just the way they are. I'm friends with both the former and current owners of CGA, so I'm slightly biased. It's no different than coin collectors that only trust PCGS & NGC and turn their nose up at ANACS & ICG. The market sets the tone, and when Heritage and the ebay excluded CGA from their auctions, that was the beginning to the slide. It's also economics, when sellers are told their notes will bring more money in PMG or PCGS holders, they cut them out and cross them over. Buy the note, not the holder.

To use a food comparison, several years back Blue-Bell ice cream was contaminated with listeria and sales plummeted. They were able to clean things up and recovered quite nicely. Their product is now back in grocery freezer cases and the Blue-Bell ice cream is back to being considered top tier...CGA never recovered.

Some interesting CGA graded notes,

Thanks guys, appreciate the help. :)

The third party grading companies are more than happy to add just about any pedigree you ask for. At one time, I was going to add Cigar City Collection as a pedigree to the notes I submitted, but decided against it. I've seen Wall of Greed, Panama Run, Wailuku Hoard and many others. Sometimes a pedigree adds value, but not always. Repeaters and Radars are everywhere these days with some having added features like super repeaters, radar-repeaters, binary repeaters and binary radars and the list goes on. I value your note between $20 - $30 at auction, maybe more in a retail setting.