New SGC cases?

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Posted By: Russ Bright

I just recieved a few cards that I bought in an ebay auction - the numbers seem to show up on the registry, and the cards look real and everything, but the SGC cases seem thinner and flimsy - on the flap it has the 10/20/30 designation and the word (poor/good) but not the other PSA style number. Also the hologram on the back is bigger and different.

did they change it? did i I get ripped off? I have no other cards that look like these - but this seller seems to have a pile like this.

examples...

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help? thoughts?

thanks for anything you have!

Russ

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Posted By: Glenn

That's the older one.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

There have been a few label changes by SGC since they started encapsulating cards. I actually like the older hologram on the back because of the new and old ball players depicted. Heres a scan of a card graded by SGC from their earlier days. You can see the difference in the front label.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

there are size and configuration variances from the earlier to later cases. Earlier cases are noticeably thinner and smaller

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Posted By: Jack Richards

A few years ago, I asked SGC to convert to the newer cases a few cards that had been graded in the older cases. They wouldn't do it, saying that their standards for grading are higher now than they were then.

For example, they said that a card that graded "92 NM/MT+" in the old days was not necessarily a "92 NM/MT+ 8.5" today.

It seemed to me that once a NM/MT+ always a NM/MT+, although a NM/MT+ is now called an 8.5, but they didn't see it that way.

The lesson, I guess, is that if you buy an SGC card in an old holder, it might be a lower grade (using the current scale) than it appears to be.