My personal experience with BVG on vintage cards is they are generally a grade higher than PSA on Mid-grade cards. Not on all cards, but as a rule of thumb that is about where they land, and that is roughly what they are going to sell for. The best example of this would be a BVG 1971 Rod Carew graded a 9 by BVG that I took as part of a trade about a year ago. I roughly figured it at PSA 8 price in the trade, it sold for roughly PSA 8.5 price at auction. I considered myself very lucky, I did not however feel lucky enough to submit the card to PSA for regrading, as I do not think it would have come back in a 9 holder from PSA.
On Pre-war cards I have had in BVG holders, they are all over the place on grading. I think a lot of this has to do with when they were graded. You will run into this issue of when they were graded with all of the big 3, reinforces the adage "buy the card not the holder"! At the end of the dat I probably have the least confidence buying/trading BVG cards than I do SGC or PSA slabbed cards. Even GAI "1st Graded" examples seem to be more accurately graded than most BVG cards that I have owned, and I have definitely had a much better success rate crossing these to PSA holders to market than I have had with BVG cards.
Just my 2 cents, but your Mantle is a beautiful VG-EX card.
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