Before we precede lets first take a look at The "Tobacco Card Company": www.t206.com/page3.html and see what they have to say about purchasing a tobacco card. Page 2: It states that cards in poor condition have no market value except in the cases of the rarest and most expensive cards. In such cases, value has to be negotiated individually. Ultimately, the collector himself must formulate his own personal grading standards in deciding whether cards available for purchase meet the needs of his own collection.