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LarrySGC...Best Holders, Very intelligent and personable, hard working owner..one of the hobby's trend setters, deservant of the utmost respect...however....
I recently graded a RARE N172 Old Judge HOFer, card had excellent front, great corners, clarity, image etc...at Phila...7 high end dealers and Bill Mastro himself all felt card was at least a 3, up to a 5... knowing that the pencil erased name was there at one time...
Was told by grader that card would only 1.5(SGC 20) due to an erase residual marking on a blank reverse that could only be seen under light,was not obvious and had no tears, no paper loss or glue...absolutely ridiculous when SGC 20 cards could have tears on fronts, stains etc..that really pissed me off.
I have seen SGC cards graded with paper loss and or glue, miscuts and heavy rounding grade 2 to 4 consistantly...My card should have been a 3 or 4(looked like a 6)
I fault the entire grading industry including GAI, SGC and PSA( and I support them!) for the stupidity of lumping blank backed cards that have a minor eraser from a pencil that should never been there anyway and down graded to a 1.5 or 2 regardless of the front which could be near mint..Why should a creased and rounded card with pencil on back and an ex/mt card be lumped into same category..it makes no sense..
Blanked Backed cards with no print should not be given the same scale as cards with full reverses, fronts should be considered and although there is so many things SGC does right, their head grader should be realistic not simplistic, tech grading is really getting impractical when dealing with blank reverses.