When and how do you decide to have photos PSA-certified?

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

Simply put, the international news service (service that provided/took the photo and had the negative) created a type 2 in the 1940s with the added name for national sports photos to use to make reproductions.

I think you're getting confused thinking that national sports photos had anything to do with any original negatives or photos, they had no part of that. Only making reproductions. Therefore every single national sports photo issued is a type 4.

So translating that into value if you were to send say jackie to psa and it gets a type 4.
Type 4=Almost valueless. And you probably lose money on the submission price.

While on the other hand if it was labeled as: National Sports photo ca 1950s and added to Jackie robinsons set registry, you would be talking thousands easily.

I answered the question about what type these would be here.

The reason type 4s are worthless is because I can go on the internet right now and print out a photo of any player and it would be a type 4.

Not sure why there is any talk of type anymore at all when it comes to these. If you want to maximize value of them you would need to get PSA to recognize them as a release. Not as original photos.

I would also give my opinion saying they don't have a release year at all. Much more likely a blanket decade release is what they are. I would say they are simply Ca.1940-1950s. Maybe even 1960s.