S74 Silk Listed on EBAY SGC graded

[Leon]

Originally Posted by rsst206

Hi Network Family,
I rarely post but thought i needed to point out this one.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1911-S74-Sil...IAAOSww5hZN1l3
...If you are collecting colored ones just make sure the factory number is on the top of the silk and brand is on the bottom.

best regards
Ron

well, sort of

[BobC]

Leon,

Those are nice, definitely miscuts you don't see too often.

[rsst206]

Nice Leon,
Yes you don't see to many with both factory and brand on the same side.

[BobC]

Here's a slightly different silk I wouldn't bother getting graded either. It would be interesting to see what grade SGC would give this one though......or what type of holder they could put it in!

[ValKehl]

Perhaps Leon's silks are counterfeits.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

Perhaps Leon's silks are counterfeits.

At first I thought you said were they "counterfelts" and thought that was pretty good. But then I looked and it was my old eyes playing games again. I kind of like "counterfelts", although I guess "countersilks" would be more accurate. So you are saying you can tell I stamped those myself, are ya? . I doubt it. If I did it something would have gotten messed up. I would have put them on the back or something.
I have only seen these 2 misprints for S74 that I recall (no doubt many others exist) and they are leftovers from Collection 1. No one wanted them when they were being sold. I like them so they stayed.

[nolemmings]

Ron,

I actually like the fact that these are graded because the grading is so awful. I ignore it completely and let silks like the one you showed be bought by the slab collectors. It works the other way as well--they often undergrade nice examples. I even thought about contacting a seller and asking if he would bust a silk out of its Beckett tomb/fortress for me if I bought it (I've slowly learned to avoid unnecessary injury).

Because these silks are really not subject to wear or accidental damage they are better suited to stay in their natural state, imo, and look nicer that way. BTW, the same grading problems are found with Px7 discs, which I collect a little-- PSA is often clueless and is woefully inconsistent on these as well (Colgan's too, to a lesser extent).