General Forum

Hello. I have some 1986 and 1987 General Mills booklets to sometime put up for sale/trade. Here is my dillema... do I trade them as intact booklets, or separate into individual cards? I think most price listings have them as separate cards. It appears the ones on Beckett Marketplace are posted as individual cards, but I think the only way to add them here is as booklets. It also seems a bit wrong in the collecting world to remove anything from original conditions. Are there any thoughts out there on this?

I believe those particular sets should be kept as a booklet as that was the original intent since there is no perforation or guide to cut them into individual cards. They are also numbered as booklets. That's why I think they're also only logged as a unit on TCDB.

As to your point about removing items from their original conditions, I'd say in many cases the intent was to enjoy them as cards especially if they have perforations or guides to cut or remove. I own various types of these oddballs, even one from the '87 set that I'm trying to complete (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), and I will unwrapped, unglue, and cut out as needed to enjoy the individual cards. There are some that I have for trade that I've kept attached in panels, but that doesn't mean I'll keep them as such for my own collection. 

I would not buy them, trade for them, or bother with them in my collection if they were separated.  They are booklets, not individual cards.

As a collector in general if you have something in it's original intact condition do not separate. Let the next person decide to separate things if they want. There are collectors who seek out the raw unseparated cards, booklets etc. and prefer the "pristine" items.