What happened to the back of this card?

alohaet

Is it just the scan or something else?

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Ed

Allen

looks like the PSA case is scratched up.

baseballfanatic

It looks like it had a price tag on it at one time and someone tried removing it and left the "sticky residue" or they used too much of the liquid price tag removing solution and it "hazed" the plastic....

phreakydancin

Might actually be a combination of scratches, gum and haze. At any rate, it seems to be just the holder and not the card. Might be a bargain in the end.

mart

At the risk of disagreeing with you guys,, It looks like water damage on the card to me !! You can see the bubbles & wrinkles that happen when water is dropped on paper & let dry !! Look between the words Quarterback & Illinois, there is a fairly large bubble. The reason I say this is that (and this may not make sense to some) I paint, and one thing you learn is that there are highlights & lowlights to any object! The bubbles that are larger actually have highlights at the top ! This indicates that the light was from above as with a scanner and the shadow is at the bottom. So the area would need to be raised, as a bubble would be, to indicate that !! Of course I could be wrong !!!!!

alohaet

Contacted the seller of this card and he just responded. He states that the back had a sticker on it when he received from an auction he won. He will be getting some goo gone to clean it up. He says there is no damage of any kind to the back of the card. Maybe he will put up another scan after he does the clean up. But why did he not do it before listing the card?

Ed

Allen

goo gone will cloud up some plastics.

milbroco

I think it is a combination of both water damage to the card and the sticky residue. It could be water damage on the card and hidden by a sticker at one time, then the sticker was removed leaving the residue. I can see where it looks like a few wrinkles and bubbles and some cloudy plastic. This is just my opinion.
Bob

Knuckles

Regardless of it being in a old PSA holder it would never have received an 8 if it had that sort of damage to the back of the card.. It's on the holder.. win it and send it in to PSA for a new holder without cracking it out.

alohaet

I sent another email to the seller suggesting he put up another scan after he cleans the card. He has over a 120 hits so far and we know why none of us have bid. Lets see what happens.

Ed

mart

I am curious to see a new scan !! On the left side of the card it does look like a residue of some sort, but on the right side, it looks like water damage !! Why would any reputable auction put a sticker on it ? They should know that you need to see front & back !! Could be that it was in a lot of some sort and it was numbered to indicate the auction lot !! But bought as a single??? I would question that !!! Maybe the new scan will show better !!

ndleo

Looks like the 1955 Topps All-American Red Grange only went for only $75 more than than a PSA 7 and $100 under SMR. I wonder if the back scared away bidders. I track a lot of these cards since I am working on a raw set. I see quite a few PSA 8's, was there an "attic find" of these cards like the 1957 and 1961 Basketball cards?

To me this is the perfect set for the college and pro football fan.

Alohaet - Did you end up bidding?

rbdjr1

"Poor Man's" Set

Since I'm a "PSA Gem Mint Junkie". And would have loved to assemble a PSA All-American set in PSA mint, ...yeah! I know! "Stop dreaming rbd"!!!

So to satisfy my PSA Gem Mint junkie habit, some years back, I began to assemble a PSA registry set of 1961 Nu-Cards. These cards are really beautiful, and were the only vintage callege football set (i.e., only an 80 card set!), I could afford, and had any realistic chance of assembling in PSA mint grades (i.e., PSA 10s and PSA 9s!).

I began my with some PSA 8s, a few PSA 9s, some raw material, some Nu-Card packs, and years have passed and what I thought would be a "piece of cake", putting together an 80 card set in PSA 9s and PSA 10s, turned out to be a "multi-year marathon".

I'm so proud of my #1 PSA 100% complete set that now contains only PSA NQ mint cards (i.e., 50 - PSA 10s and 30 PSA 9s!). What I thought would be a relatively simple task, since I believed 1961 Nu-Card football cards were cheap and easy to come by. Well everyone, try buying and cracking open some unopened Nu-Card material and see how many examples you can get that are centered enough to merit a PSA 10, or even a PSA 9.

I completed 2 sets, sold one off and I'll most likey, "savor and own" my #1 set for ever! LOL!

I can only imagine how much effort it took for those 50s and 60s vintage football "PSA set assemblors" (...you know who you are! LOL!) of Topps and Fleer football PSA registry sets.

My hats off to you all!

P.S. I love the "All-American" set but for me I'll get my enjoyment looking at scans and auction catalog pics on the occasional PSA 9 (or 10 WOW!) that comes up for sale, now and then!


MY #1 PSA REGISTRY SET: 1961 NU-CARD FOOTBALL

rbd

edit: On a personal note, I would have had that PSA 8 Red Grange card "re-slabbed", before I put it on ebay for sale!

alohaet

ndleo, no I never did bid on that card. Was very tempted thou.

Ed

ndleo

Ed - I was too, especially at $350. I think the winner got a good deal, a PSA 7 recently went for $264.