Downgrades for fisheyes?

[Kutcher55]

Really nice card. Fisheyes would never cause a card to get downgraded more than a single grade, I'd imagine. 99% of the time this happens (thought it was a 7 but graded a 3) it has to do with surface integrity, a scratch (as poster already noted), or something less than a wrinkle but more than nothing (a bubble, surface veining etc.). These are often the most difficult flaws to interpret and can lead to wide-varying opinions from one grader to the next.

[raulus]

Now that it’s available on PSA’s site, I wonder if there’s something going on with the back. I will admit that I’m no expert on this card, and maybe it’s just a visual illusion, but the back almost looks like there’s some staining or toning? Almost wonder if it’s from soaking or from being pasted into a photo album or something.

[jupiter451]

Originally Posted by raulus

Now that it’s available on PSA’s site, I wonder if there’s something going on with the back. I will admit that I’m no expert on this card, and maybe it’s just a visual illusion, but the back almost looks like there’s some staining or toning? Almost wonder if it’s from soaking or from being pasted into a photo album or something.

I know the history of this card since I bought it in 1967, and no, there has not been any tampering. PSA seems to have taken a bad photo of the back. Here it is in my dining room.

[ASF123]

A replacement for Aparicio, eh? Kind of funny that Aparicio went on to play through the 1973 season.

Belanger couldn’t hit even in the minors.