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Archive 08-19-2006 02:24 PM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>Chris</b><p>Was it Hager, Merkel, Hall or was it all based on coin grading and that was it?

Archive 08-19-2006 02:39 PM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>And a follow up question, what should we do to the guy who invented it?? And if he's dead, should we dig him up to get even with him??

Archive 08-19-2006 02:45 PM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>jackgoodman</b><p>How 'bout if he's dead, we dig him up and then encase him in a plastic slab with a flip that has the wrong name on it................

Archive 08-19-2006 04:05 PM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>WWW.TEAMSETS4U.COM</b><p>Coin grading was common long before cards. <br />that is how Collectors Univers (PSA) got into it. <br />I am not sure but I think SGC was the first card grading company for cards

Archive 08-19-2006 04:08 PM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>JimB</b><p>My memory could be wrong, but I thought Hagar's ASA was the first.<br />JimB

Archive 08-19-2006 04:11 PM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I think you are correct....

Archive 08-19-2006 04:17 PM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>TONY</b><p>Even before hager was a jeweler out of Utah who was grading cards before 1985.....of course he was too far ahead of his time & closed after a few yrs

Archive 08-19-2006 04:57 PM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>chris</b><p>wasnt SBC the first. It was on a 100-point scale, but I still thought it was the first... It would later be know as SGC?? Maybe I am wrong.

Archive 08-19-2006 10:10 PM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>Frank Evanov</b><p>Alan Hager had the patent on the 1 to 10 grading system back in the 80's and 90's. I remember his SCD ads offering "franchises" at $15K.<br><br>Frank

Archive 08-20-2006 12:00 AM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>jay wolt</b><p>I remember awhile back Levi showed me a card<br />that Tony Galovich graded in the early '70's.<br />Tony was ahead of his time...jay

Archive 08-20-2006 09:38 AM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>Al Gore.

Archive 08-20-2006 09:38 AM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I almost said that too.....

Archive 08-20-2006 11:56 AM

Who invented card grading?
 
Posted By: <b>BcD</b><p>Created 'slabbing' and saved the coin hobby which by crossed over into the card market in 85 or so.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/SiteSearch.chtml" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/SiteSearch.chtml</a><br /><br />


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