Grading Question

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Originally Posted by crwill19

Good points...I am slowly realizing the same things based on my limited experience. Growing up in the 80s, I just prefer those cards. I am starting to get into the new cards.

I agree with everything said in this post. I too have been getting small amounts of cards graded since the inception of PSA and Beckett. I was very satisfied back in the old days with the results. An then, it started morphing into what it is today. Beckett even treated vintage cards separately from their standard card grading, and came up with BVG. A 50s card that would receive a 6 or 7 back then would now receive a 3-4. Crazy. If you look closely at todays market of graded cards, the PSA case or Beckett case, you will see the higher graded vintage cards (mainly 79 and back) are in older cases. That's because they were looked at differently, as they should be. In today's market a vintage card is graded the same way as any other card. It stands to reason that a card issued prior to the advent of penny sleeves and top loaders is not going to grade as well as a new one that in some cases, is never touched by human hands.

However, with all that said, it is the world we currently live in. Maybe with AI some parameters can be built into the grading system that recognize, or consider, the year in which they're made. Until then, be cautious when you submit any card in for grading. It probably will not come back in the grade you expect.