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WILLIE MAYS - 1955 BOWMAN - cracked and resubbed.

DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
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Well .. the results are in. This was the card I put up about a month ago for everyone to guess what it should grade.

Original slab - FRONT
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Original slab - BACK
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NEW SLAB I JUST GOT BACK - FRONT
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NEW SLAB I JUST GOT BACK - BACK
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I also cracked and resubmitted the following
1949 HANK ARFT - LOOKS GREAT - must be a wrinkle I missed - ORIGINALLY "2" - New Slab - also a "2"
1964 KEN HARRELSON - ORIGINALLY 8(ST) - NO STAIN TO BE FOUND, so resubbed - Came back a straight "8"
1964 STAND-UP AARON - originally a "3" - came back a "5"

Kinda wants you to scratch your head a little.
STAY HEALTHY!

Doug

Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.

Comments

  • initialDinitialD Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭
    Great Doctoring Doug!!! You do fine work!!!

    J/K!!!! Awesome results Congrats!!!
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Nice bumps Doug
    Buying US Presidential autographs
  • BlacklabelsocietyBlacklabelsociety Posts: 1,033
    Grading is just an opinion.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice Doug

    A 3.5 bump is just nuts!

    I'm more inclined to believe this was a clerical error of some kind in the first place - that's just too much of a bump - or the grader came in with a hangover.

    mike
    Mike
  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    Nicely done Doug. I'd grade that Mays a 7 tho.

    "Molon Labe"

  • DrLouDrLou Posts: 250
    Did you buy that Mays on eBay or soemthing first?
  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,261 ✭✭✭✭
    Just when I thought I've seen it all, here comes the Mays card. In all seriousness, you deserve a refund of your grading fees.
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭
    Very nice, congrats!
  • PigsPigs Posts: 761


    << <i>Just when I thought I've seen it all, here comes the Mays card. In all seriousness, you deserve a refund of your grading fees. >>



    Not only that, how about someone hunt down the original grader and fire them. Come on that's ridiculous.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    DrLou ... yes, I purchased it off eBay without a picture of the back ... I assumed there had to be SOMETHING wrong with the back. As you can tell, there is a little something wrong, but the front looks AWESOME, IMO. When I got the card in hand I KNEW that it HAD to bump to AT LEAST a 4, so I played the 'ole crack and resub game ... something I did only once before.
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    Got to love the consistancy here.
    I'll agree on a refund or credit on grading fees. This is a joke. I think the graders have been pulling too many nite shifts at Home Depot.

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

  • jivanjivan Posts: 1,009 ✭
    Hmmmm, you bring your car in for body work... it is a ford.....the guy calls and tells you car is ready but gives you a 73 pinto... you tell him its the wrong car and then he brings you out a caddie.... this of course would never happen, so why do these grades change so much???? THEY ARE NOT PROVIDING THE SERVICE THEY CHARGE YOU FOR !!!!!!! OK, sorry for the rant.. I just keep seeing these problems you guys write about on these boards and these guys are just not getting thye job done.... I was under the impression more than one graded looked at these cards.... pretty soon they are going to put these companies out of business, but unfortunately they will land jobs at other companies... lets play baseball................3 strikes and you are out!!! lets grade the graders
    always looking for 1969 graded basketball
  • MBMiller25MBMiller25 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭
    DOUG, is it the stain on back thats keeping that Mays from being graded a PSA 7 or higher? The front looks easily NM, unless I am not picking up a dinged corner or something?
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>DOUG, is it the stain on back thats keeping that Mays from being graded a PSA 7 or higher? The front looks easily NM, unless I am not picking up a dinged corner or something? >>



    Matt ... I would have to say that stain is what is doing it. Front is quite nice!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    I've got a couple of hundred '52 Bowmans that are slabbed with wax stains on the back like that or even worse. It's never been taken into account on the grade.

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

  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    careful not to bite the hand that feeds.

    we see folks experience great joy over WINNING at crack.resub and it has become a functional topic in this community.

    w/o the game, there is no topic and there are no winners.
  • bxbbxb Posts: 805 ✭✭
    If the grade don't fit,
    Crack and re-submit,
    Or acquit,

    or something like that......
    Capecards
  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats on a huge bump...image

    Donato
    Hobbyist & Collector (not an investor).
    Donato's Complete US Type Set ---- Donato's Dansco 7070 Modified Type Set ---- Donato's Basic U.S. Coin Design Set

    Successful transactions: Shrub68 (Jim), MWallace (Mike)
  • 54topps54topps Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭
    Wow thats a heck of a bump. Congrats.
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