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Originally Posted by bobbyw8469
The card needs to be square. Yes, it can be creased all to hell.....but if there are a chunk of card missing where it is no longer having an outline, then you won't get a grade. For example, there was an absolute beauty of a 1954 Hank Aaron rookie card in last Weds HUggins and Scott auction. It was missing a corner. Around the size of a nickle.....totally gone. That card would be authentic only as well....and I would love to have had it. I hate that you wasted your money like that, but that was the obviously outcome. You should have gotten it slabbed.
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Yeah, total waste of money.
See, that wasn't clear to me and still doesn't really make sense to me in my mind. It's sort of a gray area to me. Where does it say a missing piece automatically makes the card ungradeable?
Here's 2 extreme examples:
a) You have an absolutely pristine card except it's missing a corner, nice and evenly cut. That card is ungradeable
b) you have a "complete" card that has been creased to hell, run over, dirty. This card is gradeable?
I dunno, it seems sort of arbitrary to me.