How is the Hallmark grading service?

krazyace5

Good graders?

Thanks

Placid

I thought they made greeting cards?

GAT

Their grading was pretty accurate. When they closed shop all the equipment and supplies were sold to the old PCI.

kieferscoins

They graded good but they have been out of business for years and most of their slabs have been cracked.

Cameron Kiefer

jcping

Good grading company but too conservative, in general, so that it was out of business in the early 90s.

MadMonk

My perspective is based on Franklin Halves....I wish more Grading companies graded like Hallmark...I also wish I could find a hoard of
Frankilins graded by Hallmark!

UncleWiggly

I've never seen a Hallmark slab. I talked to someone at NWR about a different grading company a couple weeks ago. They brought up Hallmark and said they were no longer. What's one look like? Jerry

I'd like to find a 1881S Morgan MS65+ graded by them.

Shamika

Very good grading company. Their slabs look just like old PCI slabs except for HALLMARK molded across the top.

kamehameha00

Some people say that they undergraded a lot.

kieferscoins

"HALLMARK" is across the top of the front of the slab on the plastic and the label back is different otherwise it is very close to PCI.

Cameron Kiefer

Shamika

Unclewiggly,

Here is an image of a Hallmark Slab.

pursuitofliberty

Will concur that they were very conservative. I used to hunt these out and found many were conservative to undergraded, either slightly to quite profitably. Of the ones I kept and broke out for albums, I recently had a few of them slabbed at PCGS and was very pleased. Of course I knew they were nice, and there has been a little gradeflation in the mean time.

koynekwest

From what I've seen, you wouldn't be talking about the "Big Two"-you'd be saying "The Big Three." How and why they met their demise is still an unexplained thing.

100proof1957

Was that not James Halperin originally ?
been long time.
the ex has the only Hallmark slab i ever owned
1941 S walker in MS64,cracked from a PCGS holder

Proof

johnk

just pick up a 1882 CC in a hallmark holder ebay 3918574149

johnk

Shamika

Somebody notable was affiliated with Hallmark. I'm thinking it was Q. David Bowers, but I may be wrong.

kieferscoins

It was Bowers and some other financial backers.

Cameron Kiefer