Posted By:
Hal LewisI am not a shill for PSA...
but I can assure you that they do NOT just take the submitter's word for things.
I submitted a CdV with all my typical documentation on the age of the item...
including documentation from Mark Rucker (who literally wrote the book on CdV's) and Barry Sloate...
and they STILL had to call in an outside expert for his opinion on everything before they would slab it...
and even THEN they did NOT slab it exactly as I had requested, but in a much more "general" sense in order to be safe.

They labelled it as:
1861-64 Cartes de Viste (with Henry Chadwick) - "AUTHENTIC"