Ok, so I failed in my attempt to have PSA grade & encapsulate some of my tickets. I sent them 11, and at the moment they are only proceeding on grading 4 of them. I'm trying to figure out where I went wrong, but after chatting with some others in a Facebook group, I think that I
a) Expected more from PSA (either in terms of what they do in research, and in terms of what I thought they would label)
b) Should have shared my own research with them
So it seems one issue I had was that a number of the tickets didn't show the *exact* game it was for (which seems to be typical of older tickets). I had thought though, that I would be getting a less specific label.
For example, here's my rejected ticket (on the left), compared to a very similar one that PSA graded in the past:
Is there a reason why they wouldn't just label mine similarly?
1915 Federal LG - Newark
Set 9 / Grand Stand
And if they were able to label tickets with just generic years, I thought that this one would have been fine. There's no year mentioned, but Steininger was only president in 1914. Was I supposed to share this info with their researcher?
So, I still have questions.
- Did their policy change? (which would explain them not grading it)
- Did I need to point to them exactly where to look and what to match?
- Would they accept a link/printout to a major auction house (i.e. Robert Edwards) that says "Our research says that this ticket is from X date"?