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Originally Posted by YazFenway08
A question for the o-pee-chee experts here...
I like vintage o-pee-chee baseball cards and, as I have posted elsewhere on net54, I am just starting to dabble in graded cards.
my understanding of the "grading process" is that the age and genesis of a particular card is not taken into account by the grader...so for example, a '33 Goudey Ruth with badly rounded corners doesn't get graded a "7" just because its older, etc.
so, when I look at many o-pee-chee examples, particularly from the 70s, in slabs...they have that normal/typical rough-cut edge thing gong on...like they were cut from sheets with a chain saw. Cards that if they were "regular" topps i would never even give a second look at buying. Yet these cards seem to regularly get "7"s and "8"s. To me, that just arent near-mint
not trying to start another pro/con thread on third-party grading...I just don't understand this allowance in the grading. full disclosure...I am a collector that has always focused on edges, corners and no creasing over centering and print defects...so it is highly probable that I still don't understand the grading criteria very well even after reading the various TPG sites.
thanks for looking...and sorry as usual for the rambling..
Mike
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The OPC rough cut is accepted by the 3rd party graders and no deduction in points is given because of that.
Not trying to be difficult, but if you don't like the OPC rough cuts then your only choice is to stick with the Topps copies.
I collect hockey cards as well but will only purchase OPC cards as I prefer the rough cuts even though not all are equal when it comes to them. Some are more pronounced than others.