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Posted By: Todd Evans

I think we are talking apples to oranges when talking about cards to game used material. It would be almost impossible to know if a card was earlier graded or rejected by someone like PSA or SGC and then have the auction house print those findings. You have cards that have been submitted multiple times to try to achieve higher grades by the same company as well as different ones so there could be no possible way for an auction house let alone a consignor to know unless they were to one that submitted it to be graded. Sure it probably could be done with some of the more rare cards but to do it on a 1956 Topps Mickey Mantle would be virtually impossible.

When it comes to game used it's much easier as their are far less quantities of like game used items although with as many game used jerseys now being used and marketed it's becoming more difficult. When a auction house has an item authenicated by two different companies then they should be required to disclose the findings of both companies and not the favored one which is the case with the Jordan jersey. You can't tell me that if MEARS would have signed off on the Jordan jersey that Mastro still would have given this to Lou Lampson for his opinion.