Questions Regarding "Skinned" OJs / N172

[alywa]

I can tell you from personal experience that SGC won't grade a rebacked N172... They may have in the past but I had one rejected a few months ago.

I have a few skinned (not rebacked) OJs in my collection, graded A by SGC.

I don't like PSA for N172s (I think they look strange), but they seem to be more lenient about giving "Authentic" badging to both skinned and rebacked cards.

[scotgreb]

I circled back with SGC on the issue and they have confirmed that they do not grade / authenticate skinned Old Judge / N172 cards. Bummer.

Scott

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by scotgreb

I circled back with SGC on the issue and they have confirmed that they do not grade / authenticate skinned Old Judge / N172 cards. Bummer.

Scott

That's really too bad. I wonder why they changed their policy on that.

[oldjudge]

I just saw this thread so I thought I would chime in. I think any grading company would have to hedge their response to the question of grading skinned Old Judges. I think the answer would probably depend on the degree of paper loss. If just the top layer of cardboard is missing they should have no problem slabbing it. However, as the card gets thinner from more paper loss the card gets more fragile. At some point the grader may decide that it is not worth the risk of further damaging the card during the grading and slabbing process and just sends it back unslabbed.