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Posted By: Julie Vognar

If the card is rare or questionable, or even just 19th century, many people prefer to get these graded as authentication (recommend GAI or SGC) of the cards legitimacy. These two companies tend to grade 19th century stuff very low, but nobody cares! Lord knows what the Gypsy Queen Pud Galvin GAI2 finally went for in the S.C.P. auction; I quit at 1434. Leon wrote an interesting article about getting really rare cards graded by SGC in July, 1901 (19thcenturyonly.org).

Actually, I DON'T recommend getting 19th century cards graded, and took the only graded one I ever bought out of its holder (N162 Brouthers PSA6).