Goudey Ruth - what’s up with this mark?
 

I’ve been wondering what this mark is just above Babe’s knees… looks like a penciled arrow? But the grade does not an “Mk” designation -

Could this be a print mark?

No biggie but just curious what this might be. Love this card but have been meaning to ask since I picked this up last year.

Thanks for your help

Jeff

need a bigger image.

https://memorylaneinc.com/site/bids/...e?itemid=49472

Here's the original listing which allows us to zoom in, It appears that it's a pencil mark? That's what it looks like to me.

pen or pencil

It could be pencil or pen, or it could be literally any other type of scuff or dirt mark from knocking around all these years. Regardless, it's still a great looking card.

It’s curious to me why the grade would not have MK listed… could the original grader have requested no modifiers and maybe that bumped it down from a higher grade + Mk to its final grade of 2 with no qualifier?

Either way, it’s the center piece of my HOF collection!

Thx for the input (although that original price sold at auction hurts me a little! Wish I bought it then!)

Great card for any collection


Congrats

definitely looks like a stray pencil mark to me.

To me it looks like a missed marking.

And it also appears to be an arrow indicating the direction of swivel in Babe's swing.

Brian

If you zoom into the fence, back right, looks like some light pencil marks there too. Also a light line left fence, and one to the left of his feet. All very subtle, none are distracting.

It looks like there are a few areas that have pencil marks.

But there are some marks that appear to be a post factory that actually occurred during the printing.

[IMG]https://photos.imageevent.com/patric...ale/img114.jpg[/IMG]

PSA sometimes misses marks, and therefore doesn't annotate them because they failed to look at the whole card. Just another example of incompetence. They have called MK and MC automatic qualifiers, which can not be removed even upon request.

Agree...

And very lazy (IMHO) of Memory Lane not to even describe the attributes of the card. If this piece was in LOTG or REA, they'd provide a detailed description of what you're bidding on.

I am not a fan of sellers (eBay or AH) who simply state the grade with no other description of condition. It's just laziness.