The PSA8 Wagner... I don't get it.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

First of all, cards ain't cars. Card collectors don't like restored, retouched, tampered-with cards. The comparison between two different classes of collectibles is apples to oranges in this context.

Second, my comment wasn't directed to nor was your example a roached old car versus a restored version of one, it was a partial car versus a whole car, condition issues aside. As I said, condition issues aside the original will always bring more than the rebuild. Or, to put it into context, if a Wagner surfaced in a cache of cards like the Black Swamp Find and it scored an 8 which would you prefer to own, the unaltered, factory original 8 or the Mastro chop-shop 8?

Third, under every grading standard for cards the "8" Wagner--which is now confirmed to have been trimmed 70 years after it was issued--is an "A" card not an "8" card. It is no different than any other trimmed card that made it into a PSA holder: a fraud.

Altered or not the PSA 8 Wagner is the best "looking" Wagner in existence. I don't think it's value took too much of a hit with the Mastro admission but I am certainly not sure of it. Obviously, the only way to know is if it ever sells again. Of course any collector in their right mind would rather have an 8 with no issues surrounding it.