1989 Fleer Randy Johnson #381 Marlboro Errors - 30 Years Later

[Hatorade]

Let’s do a little test to see if anyone here has what it takes to become a PSA card grader. I’ll post some images of graded 1989 Fleer Randy Johnson cards and ask members to identify the correct label. PSA labels the different versions of the cards Ad on Scoreboard(AOS), Ad Partially Obscured(APO) and Ad Completely Blacked Out(ACBO). Please guess which of the three labels is used for the posted cards. Are you PSA material? We’ll start with an easy one.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Let’s do a little test to see if anyone here has what it takes to become a PSA card grader. I’ll post some images of graded 1989 Fleer Randy Johnson cards and ask members to identify the correct label. PSA labels the different versions of the cards Ad on Scoreboard(AOS), Ad Partially Obscured(APO) and Ad Completely Blacked Out(ACBO). Please guess which of the three labels is used for the posted cards. Are you PSA material? We’ll start with an easy one.

1) 1987 Topps Barry Bonds
2) 2012 Donruss Derek Jeter
3) 1910 T210 Joe Jackson
4) 1999 Fleer Tradition Wade Boggs
5) 1983 Donruss Jose Canseco

I would bet these are as close as PSA got.

EDIT: To add they are all Add Completely Blocked Out but as someone who has collected a lot of these cards PSA is about 50/50 on getting them correct.

[steve5838]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Let’s do a little test to see if anyone here has what it takes to become a PSA card grader. I’ll post some images of graded 1989 Fleer Randy Johnson cards and ask members to identify the correct label. PSA labels the different versions of the cards Ad on Scoreboard(AOS), Ad Partially Obscured(APO) and Ad Completely Blacked Out(ACBO). Please guess which of the three labels is used for the posted cards. Are you PSA material? We’ll start with an easy one.

I also vote for the Ad Completely Blacked Out label on each of these.

[Hatorade]

Steve and Ben are both correct, but they are not PSA grader material.The cards are all examples of the common version and what should be labeled as Ad Completely Blacked Out, but instead they are labeled as all three of the different PSA versions.

[Hatorade]

Round 2, let’s try again. Are these cards Ad on Scoreboard, Ad Partially Obscured, or Ad Completely Blacked Out?

[Smanzari]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Round 2, let’s try again. Are these cards Ad on Scoreboard, Ad Partially Obscured, or Ad Completely Blacked Out?

Can't tell from your pics; second down on the left appears to be Partially Obscured, but could be a dark scan with the full.

I actually just found a nice stack of these and literally never noticed the "Black Box" version until I started looking (knew the others) - was kind of cool to find!

[steve5838]

I also vote for "Ad Partially Obscured" on all of these round 2 cards. From my recent experience with PSA this is the only label they are putting on any Marlboro cards for me these days.

Being that it's Friday I figured I would waste a little time... A while back someone asked me about light on the clear version card. I recorded a little clip that others may be interested in seeing too and posted it up on YouTube. It doesn't have sound, but I threw captions on it. I guess you need to turn on the captions though... sorry, I probably should have just recorded audio. Also, sorry for the jittery camera it was just taken on my phone.

https://youtu.be/R0BaA8letSE

Steve

[jacksoncoupage]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Round 2, let’s try again. Are these cards Ad on Scoreboard, Ad Partially Obscured, or Ad Completely Blacked Out?

Ad Completely Blacked Out. Obviously.

[steve5838]

Originally Posted by jacksoncoupage

Ad Completely Blacked Out. Obviously.

This is where it gets tricky and depends where they draw the line between partially obscured and ad completely blacked out. But of course there are differences between these and the fully corrected version. As a PSA grader I think I will just go middle of the road on all these cards with the Partially Obscured label so I'm never too wrong. Haha.

[jacksoncoupage]

Originally Posted by steve5838

This is where it gets tricky and depends where they draw the line between partially obscured and ad completely blacked out. But of course there are differences between these and the fully corrected version. As a PSA grader I think I will just go middle of the road on all these cards with the Partially Obscured label so I'm never too wrong. Haha.

Sorry, that was overt sarcasm.