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Has PSA always used the same Qualifiers?

AwfulBitsAwfulBits Posts: 191
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OC
ST
PD
OF
MK
MC


Have they always used them, or have they added any over the years?


-Mike


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  • RobERobE Posts: 1,160 ✭✭
    Have not seen any recent PD qualifiers lately.However,I have at least two very deserving of a PD.
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  • bosko56bosko56 Posts: 69
    Still using PD! I missed some snow on one of my 61 Topps cards and presto!!!

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  • AwfulBitsAwfulBits Posts: 191
    I talking about when PSA first started grading cards. Were they using the same, if any, qualifiers they use today?

    -Mike
  • jvineyardjvineyard Posts: 256 ✭
    I don't know exactly when they began using the qualifiers, but my understanding is that it was reletively recently - just within the past few years. They did not use qualifiers when they first began grading.
    John Vineyard

  • IseeyouIseeyou Posts: 77
    The MC (miscut) I've noticed the past 5 years. If memory serves me right, they didn't grade miscut cards at one time. Not 100% on this on, but would be leaning to it.

    Mike
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,582 ✭✭✭✭
    I know the OC qualifier has been around at least since 1998 when I started collecting again.
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  • bobsbbcardsbobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭
    I know that "MK" has been around since the very beginning. I'll have to post a picture of my 1990 Upper Deck Reggie Jackson autographed card that was graded by PSA (oldest style flip with real early number).

    Can anybody guess what the "MK" (mark) was? image
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,612 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think the OC Qualifier is the most underused one of the bunch. As far as Q's goes are they more in use now or not as much?
  • dontippetdontippet Posts: 2,606 ✭✭✭✭
    Can anybody guess what the "MK" (mark) was?


    His autograph?
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  • bobsbbcardsbobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Can anybody guess what the "MK" (mark) was?


    His autograph? >>


    YOU WIN!!!! I'll send you the pen that Reggie used to put his "mark" on my card.
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  • interchangesinterchanges Posts: 864 ✭
    I have one of the original propoganda flyers PSA used when they first hit the scene.

    Everything is now the same from day one, except for as Iseeyou stated, the MC miscut qualifier was later added.
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The MC (miscut) I've noticed the past 5 years. If memory serves me right, they didn't grade miscut cards at one time. Not 100% on this on, but would be leaning to it.

    Mike >>



    Sometimes cards are returned as miscut, meaning the angles of the cards are not a perfect square. These cards look more like a parellogram. I dont think they would fit in the holder. They will grade cards so far cut, another is showing, provided they are square.
  • IseeyouIseeyou Posts: 77


    Sometimes cards are returned as miscut, meaning the angles of the cards are not a perfect square. These cards look more like a parellogram. I dont think they would fit in the holder. They will grade cards so far cut, another is showing, provided they are square. >>





    If the corner of the picture (diamond cut to the extreme) is touching the side edge, or is cut off at the edge, PSA will NOT grade it. They will return it to you as miscut. In the mid to late 1990's when a card was miscut less than what was afore mentioned. PSA still didn't grade it. They sent it back as miscut. I would guess that many people must have complained about this since they still had to pay the grading fee, while SGC and other card companies would encapsulate thes lightly miscut cards, they just gave them a lower grade. They must have decided to ease the complaints by created the MC qualifier.

    Someone mentioned that the OC qualifier is the least used. You are right to a degree. It used to be used the most befor but it seems that PSA has gotten a bit leanient on the OC qualifier, from what I have seen the past couple of years. You have to remember that PSA is a business looking for profit. Angry customer don't make them that much profit.
  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    Apu has spoken. image

    For those who might have believed Ylder, a (MC) qualifier means the card is the proper size and shape, but the card is so far off center that part of another card's picture is on the card (often recognized because part of that card's picture is missing). If a card isn't the proper shape, but PSA doesn't conclude that it was trimmed after it left the factory, it will be rejected as a Miscut - it will not be graded, and a submission voucher for a future free grade will be given.

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  • IseeyouIseeyou Posts: 77
    If you believed NickM, you would think he was a honest guy. You would also be a fool. This lowlife NickM has been suspended off ebay several times yet he comes on preaching about how bad other people are. It is time to put the lowlife NickM in the spotlight.
  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    Ylder, go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. DO NOT impersonate law enforcement. And DO NOT sell vintage PSA rookies of HOFers you don't own with stolen scans and fake serial numbers.

    I will be laughing when I hear about you being sent to Ossining.

    You are a dangerous sociopath.

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