What's the difference between a "surface wrinkle" and a "light crease"?

Estil

Are these two the same thing or is light crease a little more serious than a surface wrinkle? Now, under the old skool (pre-PSA) grading scale, any kind of crease (even the slightest one) means the card is no more than VG-EX. And from what I heard, a wrinkle automatically gets at most, a PSA 5.

Hope some of the more "PSA grading vets" here can help clarify this condition issue for me.

bigfische

Wrinkles usually do not go through both sides of the card where as creases generally show up on the front and back of a card. At least thats how ive always thought of it.

Estil

But Beckett (which was previously the gold standard in grading before PSA came along) says that a light crease is one that is visible only on the front or back. Now I'm even more confused.

BunchOBull

Surface wrinkles generally occur naturally, in response to temperature contraction, moisture, pressure on the edge of the card, or other outside factors, and are visible on only one side of the card. Light creases occur when the card is either bent or too much pressure is applied to the edges, causing a "crimping" -like fold in card, seen on both sides. My take on this anyway.

chb

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About 2 years on a male, easily 8-9 years on a female.