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catalogue PSA uses for football cards?

thehallmarkthehallmark Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭
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So I read in another thread that PSA uses the Lemke Standard Catalogue for baseball cards to determine if a card "exists" or not.
Which catalogue do they use for football cards?

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  • thehallmarkthehallmark Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭
    Can anyone help me here?
  • cards651cards651 Posts: 665 ✭✭
    Wish I could. I'm having the same problem with 1980 Topps Basketball. For PSA, not even a Certificate of Authenticity from Topps was enough to prove that a card 'exists'...

    1980 Basketball Thread

    This thread includes the scanned error cards. PSA will not recognize the variations.

    1980 Thread with 'Jams' Silas scans
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  • cards651cards651 Posts: 665 ✭✭
    I e-mailed on two separate occasions. The first time, about two years ago, they said no. The second time around, I waited about six months without a reply before checking in again. Then I received the response shown in the thread. PSA has been provided scans and given plenty of time to review the issue. Seems pretty straight-forward. They have elected to ignore a fairly significant variation - the name is spelled incorrectly and the font color is different. Topps has acknowledged that the variation exists. Am I supposed to call and beg, sweet talk, scream? Other tasks are taking my time for now. When this issue pops up now and then, I simply indicate my past experience. Hopefully, PSA will acknowledge the variation at some point. - Kevin M.
  • cards651cards651 Posts: 665 ✭✭
    Here are the cards.

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭
    Jams is an awesome name for a basketball player!
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • twileytwiley Posts: 1,923 ✭


    << <i>I e-mailed on two separate occasions. The first time, about two years ago, they said no. The second time around, I waited about six months without a reply before checking in again. Then I received the response shown in the thread. PSA has been provided scans and given plenty of time to review the issue. Seems pretty straight-forward. They have elected to ignore a fairly significant variation - the name is spelled incorrectly and the font color is different. Topps has acknowledged that the variation exists. Am I supposed to call and beg, sweet talk, scream? Other tasks are taking my time for now. When this issue pops up now and then, I simply indicate my past experience. Hopefully, PSA will acknowledge the variation at some point. - Kevin M. >>



    No offense to PSA but... I had a similar issue with the 2007 Topps Baseball card #40 being added to a player's basic set. The whole experience of explaining the 2 variations to PSA got me no where. Apparently the "god" of cataloging baseball cards had not recognized the variations at the time so the card being added to the basic set was ignored by PSA. I was so annoyed by PSA's stance I won't ever bother again if something similar comes up again. It was a lesson for me that PSA is more of a follower then a leader when it came to stuff like this. Funny thing is not even a year later. They did end up adding it which is what I had suggested to them in the first place?!?!?!?

    GL with getting PSA to recognize it.
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