No numerical grades.
It's either AUTHENTIC (which means unaltered) or it has been ALTERED.
List ALL detected alterations (added color, bleached, trimmed, rebacked, etc).
List all defects that are not obvious. There's really no reason to list a MAJOR crease if it's very obvious. If it has a difficult to detect crease then note CR (like a qualifier of sorts).
Make a very secure tamper proof package.
Take hi resolution scans/pictures of the card (front and back) and make that information available in a database so people can research it and verify the card in the holder is in fact the card that was graded.
This service will probably be a little more expensive than the existing fee structures provided by the majors because of the extra work/detail involved.
WOULD NOT GRADE ANYTHING AFTER 1979. I might even make that 1960 and cater to a vintage crowd.
I'm sure there's more but those are the basic concepts of a service I'd like to see.
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cool you're looking to find a new home for.
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