1966 Topps PSA Question
 

I won an auction for a PSA 5 1966 Topps #43 Don Landrum and it is plainly the very rare 'partially airbrushed button on pants' variation, but the PSA label doesn't specify it as such. It actually says nothing at all regarding the button.

I checked PSA's website and they do, in fact, list and grade this card in the 3 different variations we all know: with button, without button and partially airbrushed button showing, so I'm wondering, did PSA somehow miss the fact this was a variation? Or perhaps it was graded some time before they started dividing the card into the three separate variations? I'm at a loss.

Does anybody have any insight regarding this situation? And I'm not a PSA member, but if I were to become one is there a way to get them to change the holder to correctly reflect the version of the card it holds?

Thanks.

I believe you can send it in for a re-holder and ask for the variation to be noted. I have a small stack I'm getting ready to send in, a few T206's without the back noted on the flip and a 52 topps without the black back notation. I believe it's $5 a card for the re-holder plus the shipping/insurance both ways. That's why I've been waiting till I had a few to send. I'm not an active submitter myself, so if this is wrong please correct me :)

That's essentially correct. The only correction is that if the flip due to their error, they'll correct the flip without cost to you (you'll still have to pay shipping). The T206s' back notation is a feature which they only started to do later on, so re-holdering to update those earlier flips remain at cost to the card owner. As for your card, it wouldn't hurt to ask PSA directly.

Hope this helps,
--S

Thanks, guys!!

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