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Posted By: barrysloate

I'm sitting here trying to think exactly why I find the Mr X designation so utterly ridiculous, and while I can't put my finger on it, I think it is funny because PSA went to the trouble to add this to the label and it in fact tells us absolutely nothing at all. It adds no cache, doesn't reveal the previous owner, doesn't even let us know if there was anything of importance we should know about this Mr X. Was his collection special, or no better or worse than any other collection in the hobby? Like Seinfeld was a "show about nothing", this is a label about nothing. Nothing whatsoever is enhanced by having that extra line of type on it. It's comical for sure, and I think PSA is just playing a joke on us.