Anyone have a graded card slab come apart?

[toledo_mudhen]

I hang out quite a bit on the SGC board and have accumulated a bit of the history to SGC. It appears that they 1st opened their doors in April of 98.

The very 1st slab had only "SG" on the front of the flip and the back of the slab contained a gold foil emblem.

I believe this slab lasted for the less than 6 months or so and then the flip contained "SGC"

If you submitted in 98 then this is almost for sure one of the very 1st slabs of the new fledgling company.

I'm guessing that there was plenty of "working out the details" in that 1st year and it is possible the slab was one of those details.

I have tons of SGC slabs and have never had the same issue. I'm pretty sure that they would be more than willing to do a reslab for you - but you do have a bit of history there.

[tiger8mush]

Funny you mention this, cuz last weekend I was cracking out cards to put into my binders and as I go to slide a screwdriver to pry open an SGC card, it just fell apart. I thought maybe I'd just mindlessly opened it, but there were no marks that you'd normally see from the glue being forced apart. It was a lower priced card, mid grade, not a reprint nor trimmed etc so I passed it off as my mind playing tricks on me haha.

I've cracked open hundreds from each of the big 3 TPGs and don't ever recall that happening before. Strange!

[glynparson]

FYI cases are not glued together in any way.

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

Funny you mention this, cuz last weekend I was cracking out cards to put into my binders and as I go to slide a screwdriver to pry open an SGC card, it just fell apart. I thought maybe I'd just mindlessly opened it, but there were no marks that you'd normally see from the glue being forced apart. It was a lower priced card, mid grade, not a reprint nor trimmed etc so I passed it off as my mind playing tricks on me haha.

I've cracked open hundreds from each of the big 3 TPGs and don't ever recall that happening before. Strange!

Ive done my fair share of crackin and had a sgc case fall apart on me as you described once. I kept it for my CJ display!

[MikeGarcia]

I'm glad to see that so many of the WIWAG crew are finally out on early release.