1915 Cracker Jack Jackson on ebay

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Posted By: Bill C. 

There is a decent looking 1915 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson on ebay at the moment. However, is the grading company CSA reliable or are they known to grade reprints?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31718&item=5123345560&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I bought a 1954 Williams that was really nice and readily crossed over to a PSA 7 holder. I bought a 1953 Bowman Spahn that was altered yet encapsulated by CSA. Their web site has a very prominent disclaimer of any warranties as to quality of service. I'd not spend a lot of $$ on a CSA-graded card unless I could look it over in person first.

I've got to think that any big-ticket card not in a PSA or SGC or BVG or GAI holder is suspect. Why would the owner bother to slab it with a 2nd rate company and leave all that cabbage on the table?

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Posted By: bcornell

Bill C II, perhaps?

Bill

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Posted By: Bill C.

I've only been on here a couple of times and trying to remember correctly, thought the other Bill was just 'Bill'. Don't worry, I leave for the military in a few days so I won't be around. Thanks for any/all info!

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Posted By: gdporter

CSA was a reasonably good early-on grading company, that would not likely have mistaken reprints. However, I have had a number of CSA cards that were not crossed to other grading companies becuase they were trimmed. At this point, rightly or wrongly, I assume that CSA cards are trimmed since, otherwise, the seller ought have crossed them to a current grading company.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Check this out, these are almost certainly the same Jackson cards: http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/site/bid/bidplace.asp?itemid=173&getauctionid=9

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Posted By: Tex

...should have a pretty good idea how that card would grade with PSA. He used to be one of their biggest dealers and still sells a lot of their modern cards (under different accounts of course.)

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Posted By: JDWeller

Appears to be the same card that was sold as trimmed. Either way the CSA version is too short. Too bad the guy bid so much.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

and considering that a PSA 8 is worth 5-6x what this one sold for, that should tell you everything about the seller: either a crook who slipped a trimmed card past CSA or a moron who doesn't know any better.