How do you open a "slab"?

[Mike Scott]

I bought a slabbed card and can't figure out how to open it.

[horrorhunter]

This might work. 

[marsattacks666]

I bought a slabbed card and can't figure out how to open it.

What the holy heck is a Slabbed Card?

[horrorhunter]

What the holy heck is a Slabbed Card?

"Whhhooooooooo!"

[Mike Scott]

This might work.

I'm afraid if I try something too drastic I'll damage the card.

[neonnoodle]

I think that's the idea of the slab--to make it darn near impossible to damage that card.

[Monsters For Sale]

I've opened slabbed coins with a hammer and pocket knife (chisel).  (They were slabbed samples of 1964 dimes that the slabbing folks were giving away.)

I don't know about how tightly that card is held in there.  Might not be enough room for such drastic action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rY9rBE_tvZs#t=61

[Anton Phibes]

Why open it? If its only a card, and not a comic, you've got a ready made frame Mike? Unless you need to put it in an album for a set or some such, I would leave it in the slab.

[Mord]

Why open it? If its only a card, and not a comic, you've got a ready made frame Mike? Unless you need to put it in an album for a set or some such, I would leave it in the slab.

The painter-boy speaks the truth, Mike.

[Mike Scott]

I don't normally buy slabbed things, but the price was right.  All my other Creature cards are in album/binder pages in my Creature binder, so that's where I want to put this one.

[Mike Scott]

It's out. This case is a little different that the one in the video. I ended up using a pair of plyers to snap the edges off till I could pry it apart.

[horrorhunter]

I bought a slabbed Horror Monsters Green card (Incredible Shrinking Man) only because I needed that card and it was as cheap as an unslabbed one. I just left it in the slab and use it for more monster shelf decoration. Now if it were a comic or monster mag it would have been sprung posthaste. I'm not a slabbed collector.

[Mike Scott]

I bought a slabbed Horror Monsters Green card

At least Horror Monsters are rarer cards. The slabbed card I bought was a 1973 YDL. Why even slab those?

[horrorhunter]

At least Horror Monsters are rarer cards. The slabbed card I bought was a 1973 YDL. Why even slab those?

Really.

Who slabs a $2 card? 

[Mike Scott]

Who slabs a $2 card? 

I paid $5, 'cause it's hard to find single Creature cards from any set, but that's my limit for a 73YDL card.