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LarryI keep hearing about how grading companies are stricter now than they were 10 or 15 years ago, but the majority of cards I see in old holders are more harshly graded. A card resting in a PSA-7 slab from 1995 would in most cases rate PSA-8 now. Nowhere is this more obvious than with pre-war cards when you line the slabs up side-by-side and compare card edge and corner wear.
Just take a look at the T-205 cards that are rating PSA-7 now. The amount of chipping and corner wear they accept as Near Mint now is just plain idiotic. Ten years ago, those would have been resting in a PSA-6 holder.