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Posted By: tbob

To close out this post, I wanted to report the arrival of the cards I ordered from Fritsch and their relative conditions.
I ordered 6 T212-2 Obaks, 5 in ex, one in vgex. All 6 came back roughly around ex. So far so good.
I ordered an E98 Clarke in "near excellent". The front is great with no creases and exish corners. Well centered and clean although the surface felt a little odd, a little coarser than other E98s I have handled but not a problem. When I flipped ot over there was a tiny stain bottom right, not a problem, BUT there was a tiny paper loss which affected one of the names. It is very small but judging from the E98s Pete C. had graded by SGC and sold in a lot of 4 on his web page, enough to knock the grade down from a 60 or 50 to a 30, maybe a 20 (hope not).
Any way, as tough as E98s are to find, I kept it, probably paying a good price for a 50, too much for a 30 or 20.
I sense this grading is akin to what some posters called "old school" where a little back damage isn't a problem worth speaking about. I noted that on some of his caramel cards Fritsch mentioned "bd" but did not on this one.