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Posted By: Hal Lewis

I was just going by the fact that PSA is frequently "buying back" cards from people that are mislabeled.

When someone puts a PSA 8 1933 Goudey Ruth card on Ebay for sale and it turns out to be fake... PSA buys back the card and fixes their error. They don't argue "lack of privity".

If PSA was only "guaranteeing" that something is real to ONLY the person who sent the item in... then ALL COA'S would be WORTHLESS since the initial submitter is always going to turn around and use the COA to sell the item to someone else. I have no doubt that PSA would tell you the same thing.

A COA from PSA goes with the ITEM... not with the submitter.


I do understand your distinction about the "dating" of an item SOMETIMES being a little bit different than the authentication of the item itself... but not in this case.

The date of the item is important and synonymous with the item itself.

Believe me, PSA does NOT just take the dating of these rare old items lightly. They know FULL WELL the impact of their slabbing.

I submitted this item for slabbing, and before they would even THINK about putting a date on it, I had to get written documentation from Barry Sloate, Mark Rucker and several other historical sources:



Even then, since they could only come up with a range of time, they would NOT get any more specific. I applaud them for taking these things very seriously.