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Does PSA ever refuse to grade cards?

acowaacowa Posts: 945 ✭✭
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This lot probably represents over $1200 in grading fees alone. 1954 Topps lot After glancing through the lot, PSA had to know that it would not be in the clients best financial interest to have them graded. I guess that some might say that encapsulating the card will protect it (from what I am not sure).

Some of the cards are PSA 1 with a qualifier. Ouch! The graders wouldn't have to spend more than 5 seconds/ per card to assign the proper grade. Although that's a total of 15 seconds because you would definitely need 3 people to verify each grade on these babies. On the bright side, there are a few PSA 6's (Williams, Irvin, Ford) that were worth the effort of submitting.


Regards,


Alan

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  • CubfanCubfan Posts: 1,545
    Wow, the qualified 1.

    Worth -1 on the set registry.

  • SouthsiderSouthsider Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭
    I always wanted to try to complete the worst set possible, full of qualified 1's. I was thinking the Packers HOF set, as I am a life-long Bears fan. It would be an appropriate homage, I believe.
  • onlychildonlychild Posts: 312 ✭
    As I have posted before. There are those cards that simply don't make any grade. This beats your PSA 1 w/ qualifier. Can anyone top this for the worst card?

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    Kevin
  • SouthsiderSouthsider Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭
    Would an authentic grade count as a -2 on the registry?
  • AlanAllenAlanAllen Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭
    As of now, you cannot register an Authentic grade. I talked to Joe and BJ about it at the national luncheon, and they'll likely add the ability to register them in the next software release, with the assumed grade of 0.

    Joe
    No such details will spoil my plans...
  • jimtbjimtb Posts: 704 ✭✭
    That poor Mantle card! Did you have it slabbed to keep it from falling apart? image
    Collecting all graded Alan Trammell graded cards as well as graded 1984 Topps, Donruss, and Fleer Detroit Tigers
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  • onlychildonlychild Posts: 312 ✭
    As the story goes, this Mantle was carried with a team mate of Mick's throughout a season or two. He was so amazed by the power and swing the kid possessed that he kept it taped to his locker to remind him to watch his own swing.

    It was graded to prevent further damage and just for the heck of it.

    Kevin
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,608 ✭✭✭✭
    Kevin,

    Cool story. Do you know who the card belonged to?
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • jimtbjimtb Posts: 704 ✭✭
    That's a great story! Do you know which player was carrying it?
    Collecting all graded Alan Trammell graded cards as well as graded 1984 Topps, Donruss, and Fleer Detroit Tigers
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  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    Here's a whole thread on well loved cards
    Best Card/Worst Condition

    However, nothing beats some of the beaters on the OBC site.

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • dstudebadstudeba Posts: 215 ✭✭
    Griffins/Jay -

    Thanks for the link. I love Jay's Johnson. For sale perchance or want to trade for some more intact T206s?

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  • onlychildonlychild Posts: 312 ✭
    If the story is true, the card belonged to Irv Noren. It's fun to think I might own a piece of Yankee history. I have had it for many years.

    For years it was in a holder by an off-beat company then reslabbed by PSA.

    Kevin
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    <<I love Jay's Johnson>>

    Dan, you really didn't say that did you?

    Not that there is anything wrong with it.

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • VirtualizardVirtualizard Posts: 1,936 ✭✭


    << <i><<I love Jay's Johnson>>

    Dan, you really didn't say that did you?

    Not that there is anything wrong with it. >>





    Jay and Dan ... what have I missed!?!? image


    That has to be the best "out of context" statement ever made here! image

    JEB.


    Edited to add:

    That is an awesome Johnson! image I think it's trimmed.

    Sorry, I couldn't resist!

    JEB.
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