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How/why does PSA designate a card as being "optional" for inclusion in a Registry set?

MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,580 ✭✭✭✭✭

The designation of "optional" precludes the card from being considered in the Registry set and is not used for any GPA purposes.

The attached card is not allowed in the David Ortiz Master set, nor the David Ortiz Master Topps set...however, it is allowed and in fact is a part of the David Ortiz Super Set composition. It is important to know that several other "relic" cards are in the Master Topps and Master Ortiz set compositions. What makes this one so different?

If the card, as you can see, is a Topps card, how could it be disallowed for the Topps Master set??


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  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Set composites are locked for a period of time around registry awards season. Any new additions during that timeframe are listed as optional, and get officially added to the composite after the awards deadline (usually within a week).

  • MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,580 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LarkinCollector said:
    Set composites are locked for a period of time around registry awards season. Any new additions during that timeframe are listed as optional, and get officially added to the composite after the awards deadline (usually within a week).

    Tks...perfect explanation.

  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like composite add requests after May 1st will not be factored in for current year awards, so requests after that should be added as optional until at least May 31st. They're supposed to automatically migrate to a required slot, but I've seen instances where they don't and a quick message to the set registry folks gets it sorted out pretty quickly.

  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't get me started.

    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
  • DBesse27DBesse27 Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Larkin is spot on.

    Yaz Master Set
    #1 Gino Cappelletti master set
    #1 John Hannah master set

    Also collecting Andre Tippett, Patriots Greats' RCs, 1964 Venezuelan Topps, 1974 Topps Red Sox

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