Should Beckett be grading these paper cut outs?

[Fred]

You are absolutely preaching to the choir here. I don't care what those guys do however I think it's a shame that they are going to promote tearing up nice guides, from the past, in an effort to get some business. I'm not sure if this legitimizes the pages for collectors that know what they're doing but it could add a bit of legitimacy to those that don't understand what's really going on with the page(s).

[danmckee]

Originally Posted by Fred

You are absolutely preaching to the choir here. I don't care what those guys do however I think it's a shame that they are going to promote tearing up nice guides, from the past, in an effort to get some business. I'm not sure if this legitimizes the pages for collectors that know what they're doing but it could add a bit of legitimacy to those that don't understand what's really going on with the page(s).

Choir +1

[Exhibitman]

The item should be labeled a page from a guide.

It should not be graded because was never intended to be a stand-alone item, unlike a W card.

Otherwise, I have no issue with accurately labeled items being slabbed. As long as they fit inside the slab it isn't my place to tell the submitter what to spend money on slabbing. I've had SGC slab a number of items that don't strictly conform to the ideal of a 'card'. I had them do this promo for a Benny Leonard play and it looks great:



I will have them do more of them when I think the item would be well preserved and displayed in a slab. I recently saw an auction [Goodwin?] that had an envelope from an early A's championship team in an SGC slab and I thought it looked great.

[pepis]

Beckett paid a lot of money to obtain a licence that allows them to legally
authenticate sports paper works, which ever kind it is! and that is all anybody
with a sound mind needs to know, really!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by pepis

Beckett paid a lot of money to obtain a licence that allows them to legally
authenticate sports paper works, which ever kind it is! and that is all anybody
with a sound mind needs to know, really!

really? LMAO...a license to authenticate.

[Fred]

I guess the nut job that was doing AAA forgot to renew his license.... I haven't seen that garbage for a while now... or is it that I'm becoming immune to the garbage...?

[drc]

When the market dried up he sold his leftover inventory as packaging material and hamster bedding.