1954 Red Man Tobacco Eddie Mathews Hand Cut Without Tab #23

1954 Red Man Tobacco Eddie Mathews Hand Cut Without Tab #23 value & prices

The 1954 Red Man Tobacco Eddie Mathews Hand Cut Without Tab #23 is a Baseball card (Hand Cut Without Tab parallel) released in 1954. Ungraded copies carry a market value of about $25.53.

An ungraded copy is worth around $25.53, a PSA 9 around $884.97, a PSA 10 (Gem Mint) around $5,875.49, a pristine BGS 10 around $7 and638.00. That's roughly a 230× premium for a gem-mint copy over raw — one of the clearest signals that condition-sensitive buyers dominate this card's market.

Is it worth grading?

With raw copies near $25.53 and top grades reaching $5,875.49, grading a sharp copy of this card can clearly pay for itself — the spread comfortably covers a typical ~$25.00 grading fee. The catch: only submit copies with strong centering, clean corners, and unmarked surfaces, because anything below a 9 usually erases the math.