Upgrade?
 

As some of you know, I am in the middle of a full-tilt upgrade of my Monster. I recently picked up this PSA 4 Schmidt Portrait. The SGC 40 is what I had before the "upgrade". Anybody have any idea what is going on with the PSA 4?

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Im not sure Mike but that has a pretty cool look to it. Hopefully some answers come for your question. I personally havent seen a T206 that looks similar.

Maybe it is simply an extra pass of black?

Looks like an RPPC with normal silvering (fading) of the surface except it isn't a real photo. Could be a chemical (accidental?) on the surface. It seems PSA thought it was normal.....

The '4' is not an upgrade at all. I would keep it as an abnormality and keep the '3' in your collection.

I watched that card for a while thinking it was some sort of print error. Very interesting card.

The black ink is glossier than the light ink. Perhaps the photo was taken with raking light.

Maybe it was taken at night...

SGC card is visually more appealing if you dont care about rounded corners
 

SGC card is visually more appealing , but it has all 4 rounded corners and very narrow top border VG3 is a Fair evaluation not out of line, PSA grade strictly on card slabbed I feel is accurate Print Registration is Fine , not blurry , darkness is caused during Press Run which was letter press , printing one color at a time,
Rubber Rollers would require constant inking during each color , if not you get a dull or dark appearance .
the SGC card was printed during the time when Rollers were full of ink early part of the run hence the bright vibrant look , PSA is not Blurry or mis registered so would not get demerits for print defects,
bordering is much better on the PSA with 3 of the 4 corners quite square,
as stand alone each card I feel is not over graded , obviously one against the other if you do not care about the rounded corners poor bordering SGC looks better.
But as the old saying goes "looks are not every thing"

I talked to a Printer friend of mine. He said, from just eyeballing the scan, mumbling first about cyan and magenta, that he thinks it either missed the yellow pass or at the very least got much less than it was supposed to.....

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What is the objective of the upgrade? To upgrade the flip or upgrade the card? If it's to upgrade the flip, keep the PSA card. If it's to upgrade the csrd, should have stuck with the SGC.

I guess that I intend on keeping the 4 but getting an additional "normal":D 4 as well.......