PSA grading question regarding pencil marks
 

I haven't bought a ton of graded cards but I just bought a 1934 Diamond Stars card off ebay graded 4 vg/ex - with no qualifiers. When I got the card in the mail the other day I noticed it had writing on the front! It had "ss" written in light pencil - quite obvious in person.

Can a card with writing on it get a decent grade like 4 with no MK qualifier or did they just miss it? There's no frosting on the case or anything that looks tampered with - and it's just a common anyway. And without the writing the card is still a 4. Are they really that careless or am I just ignorant? Of course, I missed the writing too and that's on me, but I just ASSumed......

There was a thread a while back about how a submitter can request no qualifiers when they grade.

This is that thread that Dennis is referring to: Link. Personally, I think that PSA just missed the writing, and they do not allow no qualifiers for marks, but that's just my opinion.

You can't request no qulaifiers for marks.

Yes, they just missed it.

D@vid is correct
 

you can not request out of mk in almost every case , I think they made an exception on a Wagner, but I too believe it is a mistake in this case.