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John WojakThe card was slabbed by PSA sometime before it was purchased by Gidwitz at the 1996 Christie's auction (where it was consigned by Patricia Gibbs, the winner of the sweepstakes conducted by Wal-Mart, who bought the card from Gretzky). I have the 1996 Christie's catalog which shows a photo of the card. While the photo is closely cropped and doesn't show a PSA label, it definitely does show PSA's telltale "barriers" around the edges of the card (except at the corners, of course). However, the card was definitely reslabbed later, because I have seen photos of it in a slab bearing on the label the name of either Gidwitz or Brian Siegel, the current owner, I forget which one.