Posted By:
martin dalziel
The REA pic is better than the Mastro pic, which makes picking one over the other a little harder.
For pure visual appeal, I like the REA card. Better centering but....that lower right crease bothers me, moreseo than the neck crease. The lower crease breaks the surface while the upper one doesn't look like it does.
The backstain on the Mastro just takes away from the card for me.
My Series 8's have terrible centering, writing on the back or a chuck missing, so maybe i could get over the staining too if i had to.
So, if the money were the same and i thought only of the card as adding to my collection, I'd buy the REA.
If I took into consideration resale, and focus on the holder and not the card (i.e. in resale, despite what most of us focus on, a lot of people will think the PSA 5 Q is more valuable than the SGC 40, now and in the future i think) - I'd buy the Mastro.