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WhenItWasAHobbyLooking at PSA's book value (SMR) for the '34 Goudey PSA 8 Grove, it is listed at $3200 in PSA 8 and $7500 in PSA 9. Looking at the Fee Schedule for PSA Services, the submitter had to have used the Walk-Through Service at $85/per card.
The PSA website states the following for Walk-Through Service: "The turnaround guarantee assures you that PSA will have grades available the same day our receiving department processes your order. Cards may be submitted to Walk-Through service by mail or at PSA headquarters. Drop off service is by appointment only and cards must be received by 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Please call customer service at (800) 325-1121 to schedule Walk-Through service drop off."
How this card's cert number appeared within a bunch of '59 Topps Football cards is still perplexing. It's hard to believe the '59 Topps Football cards also went through the Walk-Through Service. In my 8 years of submitting at least 8,000 cards to PSA and seeing other's submission results, I've never seen an interruption in cert numbers in a submission for someone else's card(s). However, could it be possible that when PSA performs the Walk-Through Service, they tell a grader or graders, "Here's a Walk-Through order, stop what you are doing, and grade it right now, and then continue on with what you are doing" and that's how it shows up with a cert number like that?