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Posted By: Bruce Perry

for those of you who want to bash GAI....note this...their grading is much more consistent now and tougher (and has been for some time now) with cards (especially pre war)than psa has been since 2001 when the gai people (who were major players at psa 1991-2001)left psa......psa is the company that is all over the place in grading or lack of grading cards, and is causing quite a stir in the industry by alienating a lot of dealers and collectors alike...sgc does well with pre ww 1 cards, but the rest of their graded cards do not sell as well or bring top dollar, IMO....one note about paper loss...do not confuse paper loss with a poor or non existent print strike on a particular spot on a card...this has been pointed out to me many times with pre ww 1 cards when what I thought was paper loss was actually a spot where the print is missing due to a poor strike...not an actual paper tear/scrape/loss....you can tell the difference if you closely under a 10x power loop, but there is almost no chance to see this difference on a scan...now more times than not, it will be paper loss....but this print strike issue is more commonly found than most would think....gai has told me they do not take off as much with this print strike issue than with actual paper loss..which is the way it should be