I thought it was a little high. PWCC sold a PSA 2 Plank last year that was nicer for 33K which had sold for 31K 2 years earlier. REA sold one for 41K in 2012 that is the nicest of the three. Plank isn't really one of those cards that is being bought up by speculators.

Agreed. Funny how we continue to see regular grading discrepancies like this even with big name cards. Although the birth of grading with PSA and Bill Mastro's trimmed Wagner ushered in the initial controversy more than 25 years ago. PSA in particular seems to be wildly inconsistent on how they change standards over time. At the end of the day I suppose it just goes to show that excellence (or NM or VG or G or P...) is in the eye of the beholder, even among professional graders. I'll stick with how I learned to grade from hobby publications in the 1980's. I don't at all get how a card with paper loss like that (or whiteout or whatever it is...) would be a 2; any other T-206 common like that probably would have been a 1 all day long.

I would have bought it if it wasn't
for the whiteout stains. J/K
Just didn't look like a clean 2 to me
Are there any ripped, pinholed, paper losses PSA Auth
out there for around 5k to get me up
Higher on the Net54 Monster list?

I wondered about this but wanted to wait until the aucion was over until I asked a question. Did anyone see this LaJoie and wander how a card with staple holes could not be graded a 1?

https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball/1...ription-071515

I guess I need to save up for many years and then cash in when the time is right.

If I'm remembering correctly, that's how Goudey mailed out the Lajoie cards to collectors that requested them by mail in 1934 and later (stapled to the letter), so all that were sent that way supposedly have the staple holes. I would not agree that makes them anything more than PSA 1's at most either, but I'm sure that if a justification for a higher grade was ever needed, that's probably what it was.

the story I've always heard was mailing goudey was the only way to acquire this card...it seems that there are many high grade lajoies. I have never heard that these cards were stapled?

I have see far more goudey LaJoies with no staple holes than ones with them, fwiw.

agree

Nope, that's incorrect. :) What you are thinking of is the belief that many of the Lajoie cards were sent to collectors paperclipped to a letter, so many of the '33 Goudey Lajoie cards will exhibit a paperclip indentation.

35k seems about right....nice card

wouldn't exactly call this card "fugly" - I'm not a high-end card guy w/deep pockets, but IF I was, I'd be happy to add this example to my collection rather than one with heavy creasing, etc.

JMO.

DS