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Originally Posted by glchen
You will definitely not get a number grade. The best that you can hope for is to get the grade Authentic/Altered. You will always get the Altered qualifier from PSA is there is anything external stuck to the card like tape or scrapbook (glue is the exception). The question is whether or not PSA will return the card to you unencapsulated/unholdered. If there is too much scrapbook attached to the card, they may not encapsulate it at all. However, as you were informed, "too much" is up to the discretion of the grader. Just because the card is Assembly stage, I don't think that is proven the card is holdered. That "Assembly" could just be putting the card back in a Card Saver I to ship back to you. so until you see the grade or get the card back, you won't know for sure.
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PSA and SGC will both give you a numeric grade if there is tape on a card.
Typically, neither will grade a card if the entire back is covered by scrapbook paper (although I'm sure exceptions can be found).
Having your card currently sitting in the "Assembly" stage at PSA is not an indication that your card passed through grading. If they rejected your card, it would still go through each stage of the grading process.