Ryan--I disagree. I think GA should disclose that it previously resided in an SGC A holder. I have a somewhat similar story which illustrates how another auction house handled an analogous situation. In the 1990s I sometimes hosted customer dinners with famous athletes in attendance as paid guests. They would mingle with the clients and sign autographs. One such dinner had Jim Brown in attendance. We had Browns mini helmets available for people to get signed. I had a few extra signed helmets from that evening and consigned one to LOTG. Al sent it to PSA and it came back that they thought the signature was bad(I hope they are more accurate in general). I sat next to Jim when he signed each helmet so I knew they were wrong. I suggested to Al that he submit it to JSA since it was 100% OK. He said that wouldn't make sense since even if they authenticated it he would still have to disclose in the write-up that PSA would not authenticate it. As much as that annoyed me I knew he was right. This case is even more obvious since I don't believe that there is certainty as to whether the card is trimmed or not.
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