Deserving of a PSA 10?

[conor912]

Originally Posted by bxb

I'm not a T206 expert, but I might have expected better top to bottom centering for a 10.

The 'ol 70/30 PSA 10.

Slabbing is a joke.

[tiger8mush]

"4.5" if I'd submitted it. Or "A".

[Peter_Spaeth]

If you enlarge the upper right corner, it looks angled or something.

[sterlingfox]

Should not be higher than an 8 with that top to bottom centering.

Ridiculous that this got slabbed a 10

[RedsFan1941]

OUTRAGEOUS!!! but at least the board is finally talking about a heritage auction.

[Lorewalker]

I cannot afford it. I do not know T206s well either so with those disclosures my worthless opinion is that it is not a 10. I see what appears to be a tobacco stain too. My hunch is that if taken out of the holder it would not come back as a 10 the next time. If it were my card however I would not see any of the flaws we have pointed out.

In a perfect world I think I would prefer to buy a card that I feel would grade the same way if submitted again. I know not all collectors, especially those at the top of the food chain, care about that.

[irv]

Originally Posted by bxb

I'm not a T206 expert, but I might have expected better top to bottom centering for a 10.

If the centering begins below the letters at the bottom of the card (which I believe it does?) then I believe it is in tolerance of receiving a 10?
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Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

How can any card that is 115+ years old look like that ? Remember it was packaged in a tobacco pack . This card has never been dropped etc. ?? Just putting it in and out of a CardSaver without corner nicks is hard to do . Wow !

I have always wondered that too. How could a card that old or older stay so sharp and clean after all these years?

I am not suggesting it isn't possible, I would just like to know how cards like these were saved/preserved when I highly doubt any type of card savers/sheets were available way back then.

Can I assume most were placed between pages of thick books? I'd honestly like to know what collectors did way back then.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by RedsFan1941

OUTRAGEOUS!!! but at least the board is finally talking about a heritage auction.

We need to work in parking costs and eBay bucks to steer this thread back to where it belongs.

Regardless, there are worse 10s in the auction than even this one. Remmeber, a lot of these cards come from the Harris collection.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by calvindog

We need to work in parking costs and eBay bucks to steer this thread back to where it belongs.

Regardless, there are worse 10s in the auction than even this one. Remmeber, a lot of these cards come from the Harris collection.

Is that right? So a number of these were cracked and re-submitted?

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by calvindog

We need to work in parking costs and eBay bucks to steer this thread back to where it belongs.

Regardless, there are worse 10s in the auction than even this one. Remmeber, a lot of these cards come from the Harris collection.

As painful as it is to say, I agree with Jeff on this. This card should be no higher than an 8 IMO, the upper left corner regardless of the cut, simply keeps this card way below a grade of 10, not even close... Also, there are Harris cards out there that look like Stevie Wonder trimmed them....

[Copa7]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

"4.5" if I'd submitted it. Or "A".

+1

I saw these so called 10s. No way. The Germany Shaffer is 60/40 side to side.

Someone paid for this. I have lots of perfectly good cards off center. Why don't they rate a 10 ?

[insidethewrapper]

No qualifiers ??????

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

"4.5" if I'd submitted it. Or "A".

Same here.

[Pat R]

I think some of the cards with low cert numbers are suspect
when it comes to trimming and minimum size requirements.

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