SCD 7 NM UT ?

ZodiacMindwarp

What difference does it make if the card is touched or not? It's a 7 either way. Am I missing something?

1969 Topps Baseball #18 Dick Schofield SCD 7 NM UT

magellan

Notice who the seller is? None other than Larry Fritsch who has a very demented thread about him elsewhere on this board.

MorrellMan

I remember hearing about a grading service pulling cards out of unopened packaging for you and noting the card as untouched. I thought it was PSA but I'm thinking now it must have been SCD. If I'm correct, this was one of their sales points when they first came on the market.

aro13

MorrellMan is correct. SCD would take cards out of packs and grade them as untouched. I thought the original idea was for Star Company cards as that would help to indicate that they came directly out of the baggie. I do not think the idea ever caught on.

WinPitcher

Untouched? did it levitate its way into the slab? hehe

Im wondering why it got only a 7 if it was untouched

jrdolan

7 UT means untouched by human hands.

8 NL means it's never been looked at by human eyes.

9 NT means no thought about that card ever entered a human mind.

10 G means it's the untouched, unseen, unimagined rookie card of God himself. The centering is nice, too.

aro13

winpitcher - In this case the card is a 7 because of centering. I always liked SCD grading and had good success crossing over their cards. Unfortunately, they are no longer grading.

lamar

I had decent luck with a 10 or so vintage cards crossing them into PSA slabs too and was kind of disappointed to hear they were done. I could find them on ebay for lower prices and them cross them over. The untouched thing never caught on though - they never seemed to market it much. It was good with Star and did guarantee that the card wasn't doctored or trimmed or anything, which is a nice thing for a lower-tier grading company. I wish beckett would do that so we could have confidence that half their stuff isn't trimmed.