grading autographed cards

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I had the aforementioned Payton and a 1951 Topps Kluszewski auto'd card done at a show in LA. Steve Grad was there. He was able to authenticate the sigs on site--they are not that rare, I guess--and applied the DNA marking to the cards then and there (freaked me out, BTW, when he looked at the cards then flipped them over and marked on them, without telling me what he was doing). They then went to PSA for grading and encapsulation. No LOA, but the cards are encapsulated with the PSA/DNA authentication on the holder and the DNA marking on the back of each card. A third card that he could not authenticate on the spot was sent to PSA. It went through the regular process (I presume) and was returned unencapsulated because they could not authenticate it.

I expect that I will end up sending in a number of the cards to get them done.