VERY High End Card in Beckett Holder - Thoughts

[jchcollins]

Beckett would not be my preference, but if you have no questions on authenticity and are happy with the appearance for a PC card, then there is nothing wrong with it. I did this fairly recently on a nice '69 Reggie RC in a BVG 4.5 that walked into my LCS. It was an old flip that had the subgrades on the back - which if you were active in the hobby in the early 2000's - there was a brief period of time when they did this and were actually fairly tough graders.

So, I bought the card for what I thought was a fair price. Ironically, in checking out the cert after I bought it, it would not come up on the Beckett database - so I called them. Long story short, the slab was "so old" that Beckett could not even stand behind it. (Huh?) I mean the slab was old, but not that old. It was from maybe 2005 or so; PSA and SGC still routinely stand by their slabs that old for purposes of re-holder, etc. The kicker on this was if I wanted it reholdered and to appear in their cert verification, BVG wanted me to to pay for both shipping and regrading on my dime. Uh, no thanks. I just left it in the old holder, it was in good shape and I kind of dig the subgrades on the back - which of course nobody does anymore for vintage.

Only caution for Seaver with Beckett - I will say that in the distant past I have seen a fake Seaver RC that got holdered as authentic in a BVG slab. I'm sure they got called on that.