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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Well, I don't know how well known, famous or notorious I am... my name is Frank Wakefield.

I'm REALLY biased against grading. I like to be able to touch a card. The little fellows are pieces of history. So the idea of registering a set seems to me the ultimate culmination of this grading folly. But that is not why I post.

I've seen some very nice cards, in person, eyeball to cardboard, over the years. Wagners, Cracker Jack cards that look like they never went into the box in the first place, Old Judges that look like they were cut at the printers and then hidden away, beautiful cards. They were not graded. And even if I add into the population the scans of 8s and 9s and all that I've seen on eBay, in auctions, and on this board, it still seems to me that at least 90% of the really nice cards I'm aware of are ungraded.

Maybe after a fellow gets a certain number of sets registered, he himself could get graded as a PSA 6 Collector... and if he gets more sets registered, then he could reach the PSA 7 level of collecting, and from that lofty position of honor he could then aspire to become a PSA 8 Collector. They could even send the collector a nice T shirt...

Frank