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Originally Posted by MCoxon
Do you think grading created more "investors" vs. collectors? That could be one of the outcomes of the introduction of grading...
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Maybe, but where grading really grew in popularity was the advent of E Bay.
It made it much simpler to purchase cards when you knew what you were getting.
There was Tipton mint, and Larry Fritch mint, and on and on it went. I hated the descriptions in some of the old Fritch catalogs - NM, except for punch hole in top, or VG/EX - except for writing and slight crease.
What did that mean??????
So PSA and others devised a scale with standards and you knew what a 1, 2,3.... etc were.