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Posted By: Bob

I just received a PSA graded T222 Fatima from them. The card looks much, much better than a "2" and in fact looks very close to a similar PSA 5 with one difference: the shiny glossy look on the front isn't there, in fact it has a flat dull tone to it. I received an email from another 54 Board member who told me he sent back a couple of Fatimas (one was Bresnahan) because of a similar problem and he believes these cards can be traced back to a lot which appeared in one of the larger auction houses and was in a scrapbook a while back. He believes that the cards were soaked off and then submitted to PSA who graded them, knocking down the grades because of the saoking and loss of the gloss.
Has anyone else experienced this and bought or seen any of these cards?
By the way I kept my Fatima because the card was so tough.
tbob