PSA Flips/Holders - Tracking Changes Over Time

[Fred]

Yes, the card was slabbed after it was cut from a strip of cards. PSAs first slabbed card. The original holder flip is different. It must have been placed in the holder with the McNall/Gretzky flip as a hype flip.

I wonder if PSA would buy back that card (or pay the difference in value) after they now know they graded a trimmed card and assigned it an "8" grade. Surprised it didn't grade a "9".

I wish I could find my auction catalog that had the "Hall" T206 collection of cards. Holy crap, you could see PSA assigned numerical grades to obviously trimmed cards.

[joshuanip]

Thanks for the info.

[nat]

Bumping this thread with a few extra details that I noticed. The reverse of style 8 is different than the reverse of style 7. In particular, the PSA logo and the text about being a division of collector's universe are holograms on style 8 flips, whereas on style 7 they were just silver.

There also might have been a change to the slab itself - although I don't have enough graded cards to know for sure. All of my style 8 and 9 cards have a deep lip around the edge of the reverse of the slab. I have two cards in slabs with older flips (styles 3 and 7) and they both have a much shallower lip around the edge on the reverse.