July Pickups

[Neal]

Nice!

[Section103]

As a Wally Moon and Ray Katt collector, I was beside myself being able to pick up these Venezuelan Winter League cards that both pre-date their generally accepted rookie cards. Picked them up about a month ago, just got them back from SGC (obviously more for authenticity than grading) - now, they're the only 2 graded examples in the entire set.

[DBesse27]

Rich, great cards! I love foreign issues and had never seen those before.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Canofcorn

Got my PSA grades. Pretty strict but they all got slabbed. No surprises. Going in my safety deposit box for now, but one day when I do sell them they will be the "nicest 2.5" out there:

2.5 Jackie
2.5 Jackie
3.5 Mantle
4 Williams

Tough grading on those cards, imo. Are there creases, stains or something else that we can't see going on with them?

[Canofcorn]

Originally Posted by irv

Tough grading on those cards, imo. Are there creases, stains or something else that we can't see going on with them?

There is a light crease in the yellow area off Jackie's shoulder.

The bowman had a light horizontal surface wrinkle seen on either side on the Front, and on the Reverse two longer diagonal wrinkles are there. Neither amount to creases. (Hence the 2.5)

Yes they are overly tough lately, people say they are protecting the value of current high grade vintage

[DBesse27]

Originally Posted by Canofcorn

There is a light crease in the yellow area off Jackie's shoulder.

The bowman had a light horizontal surface wrinkle seen on either side on the Front, and on the Reverse two longer diagonal wrinkles are there. Neither amount to creases. (Hence the 2.5)

Yes they are overly tough lately, people say they are protecting the value of current high grade vintage

Given the wrinkles you disclose here and PSA's own published guidelines,'it sounds like those 2 grades were pretty fair.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Canofcorn

There is a light crease in the yellow area off Jackie's shoulder.

The bowman had a light horizontal surface wrinkle seen on either side on the Front, and on the Reverse two longer diagonal wrinkles are there. Neither amount to creases. (Hence the 2.5)

Yes they are overly tough lately, people say they are protecting the value of current high grade vintage

Thanks for the explanation.

I guess rules and guidelines are exactly that, but I still can't get my head around some of the grades I see PSA give!

[DBesse27]

PSA's biggest issue is consistency, especially in the low grades. I have some Venezuelans graded 2 or 2.5 with paper loss on front. This should not be possible.