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Posted By: Joann

But do the erasures have to actually leave a visual cue for graders to base a grading decision on it? Or is knowing it was erased enough? There is one of the Herpolsheimer's cards on ebay now (or maybe recently ended - haven't been keeping up as well last few days), and one in a recent auction, that were graded without a MK qualifier by PSA. I think general knowledge or thinking is that all cards in this find had pencil markings on the back, and if there is none it must have been erased. The online auction (I forgot which) mentioned the likelihood of a pencil mark having been erased.

So if the PSA graders know there was an erasure, are they bound to include the consideration in the grade, or do they have to see actual evidence of it? What if someone walked into PSA with a card and said "I trimmed this card", but the grader could find no evidence of trimming? Knowledge of likely alteration, but inability to visually see it. Same outcome?

Joann