Graded Spalding Cut out Pictures/Revisited

[drcy]

I agree with Barry in that I don't like the idea of people tearing out pictures from old publications to have them graded.

But if it's already torn out and the grader accurately labels, I won't blame them.

In case any of you missed it, there was/is a big date from PSA collectors because PSA graded several Nolan Ryan 'Pre-Rookie' pictures cut out from a 1966 Sporting News magazine, and included it as part of the Nolan Ryan registry. As a result, a PSA graded Mint 10 '1966 Sporting News Ryan handcut' sold for about $700 recently! You'll be relieved to know that, while they didn't it as sign of a the hobby apocalypse, many PSA collectors on the CU board thought grading a cut out magazine picture as if it was a quasi-card was highly dubious and opened a can of worms. One joked that the PSA 10 example sold for about $699 too much. Even the PSA registry loyalists wondered how such a thing could be included as required part of a player registry.

Oh, and in 'AAA graded 10 Putnam Dictionary Babe Ruth' fashion-- the 1966 Sporting News Ryan has a partial article on back and you can even the text through the front.