1987 Topps Question

dallasactuary

I am sure everyone has noticed that 1987 Topps borders come in a variety of "shades" from very light to very dark. My question is, when PSA grades a card, is one of those shades the "right" one and other shades earn deductions, or are they all the same from a condition standpoint?

I've wondered about this enough that I have yet to get any of my '87 Bonds graded, but now a friend of mine did get one graded (the shade was fairly light) and got an 8 on a card that I was positive would get a 9 with a shot at a 10. Anyone know for sure?

CreeperKat

Here are a couple examples of 1987 Topps 10's. It doesn't appear that the shading makes a difference.



(Just noticed I have some cardboard lint from the packing on the Romanick card. I'll have to rescan that. And no, the Ruhle card is not trimmed, my scanner software shrunk the image).

WinPitcher

I do not think that the shade will hinder a grade, the 62 topps and 55 bowman have similar shades. I noticed that in 85 topps some have a rich green back while others are lighter . again, I doubt that they take that into consideration, they may if a card is perfect and also has the richly colored green back make it a gem. I must have opened and sorted tens of thousands of topps cards from 83 thru 91 and have just abt seen it all.

RobE

Shouldn't make a difference in the grade.To me I've seen cream white border 10s and Snow white 10s too.

Not as drastic as the difference in series of 68s the 87 has 2 or 3 shades of ply wood borders.If you are doing panel on a wall just make sure all the shades match.


87 reminds me of economy 62s.

bengineno9

Dallas.

Nice picture on the sig line.

Ben