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Old 10-23-2014, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Kzoo View Post
A couple years ago, I had about 30 beautiful '55 Topps cards that I submitted to PSA. One card in particular (Stan Hack) looked like it should get a '9', but instead came back 'evidence of trim', while the majority of the rest of them came back 8's and 8.5's. I knew it wasn't trimmed because I bought the cards from the original guy that opened the packs himself as a kid in 1955. So, I resubmitted a short time later and it graded a 9.
It has to be real tough sometimes as graders, especially when it comes to high grade examples. IMO, it would seem that when they get a very sharp looking vintage card, that is when they really look close and dissect for any possible indication of alteration. It seems for every good TPG story, there is a horror story to go with it.
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T206's Graded low-mid 219/520
T201's SGC/PSA 2-5 50/50
T202's SGC/PSA 2-5 10/132
1938 Goudey Graded VG range 37/48
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