Grading help with 1973 Topps candy lids

Mrcardsniper

After reading a recent post about candy lids. I dug-up some nice 1973 Topps candy lids that I would like to send in for grading. Can anybody explain to me the grading for these cards. What is a PSA1, PSA2, PSA3 and so-on. How tuff are they on centering and creases on the tab. What cards are worth sending in I have three nice Ryan's and a couple Bench's and a super sweet Kaline. Any help would be of use to me. Thanks Paul

glossycrazy

Hi-
A real nice set of these sold on ebay 2 months ago for about $900. All of the lids were decently centered and the tabs were bent but barely noticeable! Should have bought it as it was the nicest I've ever seen!
Centering does play some part along with wear on the edges top and bottom! All of the lids have bent tabs and the less noticeable the bend the higher the grade. If you have lids with no wear, decently centered pictures, and tabs showing a slight bend you might get a psa 7/8. I do see by the pop reports that the first few 9's have been graded in the last month! I'm thinking they came from the ebay set I mentioned earlier! Best of luck and I hope this gives a little help!
Paul

NickM

There is no way that a tab that was issued on a candy tub can get a 9. PSA downgrades for the tab bend/crease, and anything over a 5 raises questions.

Nick

magellan

My guess is that the 9's were never on a candy tub but were distributed flat from Topps (Woody Gelman?) or the printer.

calaban7

Hi, Most of the graded ones are 3-5 in grade . My newphew somehow got a Palmer that was graded 6 . I have one of the 7's , Nate Colbert, my own submission and the tab bend is barely noticed. I've heard that what some people did was to cut the lid off , with out bending the tab. Centering is not that big of an issue , when these are graded.

With the possibility of these being added to the basic sets, there may be some money to be made. None the less these are fun to collect anyway.

rose14com

I think when the lid was inserted into the tub itself, the tab was automatically bent as a result. There must have been some leaked into the hobby, as someone else suggested, so that the tab has no crease/bend at all.

carew4me

I have the Carew in a PSA 6. None higher.

Boopotts

I sold a Don Sutton PSA 6 with the bent tab. If the rest of the lid is near perfect you can get a 6 on these, but a 5 is the norm for decent looking specimens.

lseecon

I dont really understand why perfectly centered nice looking candy lids with the bend in the tab shouldnt be graded 7-9? I mean whats the reasoning? They were issued on as a LID with the bend.. PSA issues 8s and 9s for 1955 Topps Doubleheaders and T201 mecca folders and those cards all have a big flipping bend in the middle of the card b/c thats what happened when they packaged them and thats how they were issued....why treat the candy lid set differently? In my opinion, centering is the key to this set.....try to put together a nicely centered set, its quite a feat.

Whats the purpose for only issuing 5s and 6s for otherwise perfect condition candy lids. The set is a pretty neat looking set and somewhat scarce. PSA might get more people sending in them for grading and collecting slabbed sets if they didnt penalize for the bent tab....thats how they were issued....

i have a bunch of them but whats the purpose of grading them if they will receive 5s and 6s because they all have the bend in the lid

cardfan07

Anyone have an extra Mays they'd like to part with?

Boopotts

<< <i>I dont really understand why perfectly centered nice looking candy lids with the bend in the tab shouldnt be graded 7-9? I mean whats the reasoning? They were issued on as a LID with the bend.. PSA issues 8s and 9s for 1955 Topps Doubleheaders and T201 mecca folders and those cards all have a big flipping bend in the middle of the card b/c thats what happened when they packaged them and thats how they were issued....why treat the candy lid set differently? In my opinion, centering is the key to this set.....try to put together a nicely centered set, its quite a feat.

Whats the purpose for only issuing 5s and 6s for otherwise perfect condition candy lids. The set is a pretty neat looking set and somewhat scarce. PSA might get more people sending in them for grading and collecting slabbed sets if they didnt penalize for the bent tab....thats how they were issued....

i have a bunch of them but whats the purpose of grading them if they will receive 5s and 6s because they all have the bend in the lid >>



That's actually a pretty compelling argument, IMO, and there does seem to be a double standard when you consider how the doubleheaders are treated. However, if the card is more important then the slab then how they grade them shouldn't be an issue as long as they're consistent about it.

NickM

They downgrade 1962 Topps Baseball (and Football) Bucks for the fold, which was part of insertion into the package.

They're not going to change.

Nick

RedRomad275

Same with 79 Topps comics. If it's got a fold then it goes down several grades.

Red