Old judge grading question

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Posted By: Judge Dred

The scan is of an N172 Duryea (CVG). Yes, that is a large remnant of a scrap book on the back. The card has a vertical crease that runs top to bottom. It's almost comical the difference in grades of the SGC10 Getzein and the SGC30 Duryea. I guess we could all pull out some really interesting graded N172s and laugh at how poorly the grading standards were applied.

PSA is no better. I have N172 cards that are PSA graded (somewhat high, 6) that have definite signs of some type of adhesive that was removed. I also have a trimmed N172 Sunday card that was given a PSA1. It was won on ebay and this bull board mentioned that it was trimmed (ad removed from the bottom). I thought that PSA would not grade trimmed card - it was another novelty graded card purchase that I had to have.

I hate to deviate from the main topic but I just want to relay one last funny PSA grading blunder - A T201 (Bender/Oldring) that was graded a PSA4 and inserted into a standard card holder (folded in half). I about died laughing when I saw it. I just had to have it.

Bottom line is buy the card - not the holder unless you like to have fun laughing (or in some cases, crying) at the ineptness of the so-called professionals that provide us with their subjective opinions about the condition of something they probably don't understand.