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T206Collector...I am willing to bet that the Cy Young has two wrinkles somewhere making it a 2 rather than a 3. In fact, I am pretty sure I can see at least one in the lower lefthand border. If I am wrong, that card would like great in an SGC 40 holder.
Also, the Plank is clean looking, but suffers either from a strong wrinkle or crease not visible on this scan or moderate back damage.
As I have said on previous posts, the grading scale is like a pyramid -- all 10's will look the same, by definition, but there are countless reasons for a card to be graded a 1. (If you can see a difference between two 10's, the one of them ain't!) As you move up from 1 to 10, there are fewer and fewer permissible flaws, so the cards will start to look more similar. But there will always be numerous differences between 3's -- some will look like your Plank and some will look like your Cy Young.