Old School SGC question
 

This is random, but can anyone identify the handwriting on this note, and the grader who possibly wrote it?

This is a relic from my first ever SGC submission in the summer of 2006; ran across it in a drawer yesterday and it brought back some memories. The Mantle in question was indeed altered / color added; I did some erasing on one corner myself as a younger person, and at the time - was totally oblivious as to how that might pose a problem with this newfangled thing called card grading.

But yesterday I was thinking gee, wasn't it nice of them to actually let me know what the problem was? You might get a COL rejection today still, but of course you wouldn't get the handwritten note. I know I've seen this old SGC practice discussed before I think on this forum, but I can't find the thread. Just curious in case anyone would know, I've seen other slips like this posted in various places - including I think the same handwriting. If anyone has any additional information I would appreciate it. Some of these graders (and at the time there weren't that many at SGC...) have gone on to notable other things in the hobby.


Thanks,
-John

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No idea but I have one with counterfeit checked someplace. There was/is a rare version of a card that I 100% believe to be counterfeit. So I sent a copy to SGC and they sent one of those cards back with it.

On a side note Beckett also rejected it as counterfeit. PSA graded 2 of them and I recently seen one in a CGC slab.

John, very interesting. Curious as well if anyone knows who it was.

What happened to the Mantle? Or do you still have it?

Could have been Derek Grady, the head grader at the time or perhaps Lee B. who was also there concurrently.

I don't; I upgraded it. That Mantle eventually got into a (proper) SGC A holder, and I sold it in part to finance the upgrade and some other things.

Just read a SCD article that said Derek did not come back to SGC until 2008, but not sure if that is accurate.

Prominent graders there in 2006 were Scott Hileman & Bob Luce, good chance it was one of those two.

I've definitely heard those names before. Thanks.