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Is this card correctly graded ?

pmcollectourpmcollectour Posts: 1,211 ✭
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Beauty of a card, but just wondering if it's too o/c top to bottom. Not good at this, so thanks for your help.

1954 psa 8

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  • drewsefdrewsef Posts: 1,894 ✭✭
    would wait to be 100% sure if you actually like the card and feel it is centered within range before spending my money

    edited to sound less harsh
  • EagleEyeKidEagleEyeKid Posts: 4,496 ✭✭
    I was told the way to decipher centering for T/B is to the take the hockey team logo
    (in this case, the tip of the wing) and you have your border-like guideline for top.
    The bottom border-like guideline would be right below the lettering. You decide from there.
    I've seen worse. Do a search for 1954-55 hockey just to see and gauge for yourself.

    Sample: I like this centering better.

    image
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    On the OPs card the players head is actually ABOVE the top of the team logo. Looks pretty O/C to me.
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  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    The '54-5 Topps hockey is often misgraded. The Lindsey example cited by the OP is significantly O/C t/b at nearly 20/80 and borders on the EX/MT to NRMT centering threshold rather than NM/MT. The l/r centering looks to be very solid.
  • thehallmarkthehallmark Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭
    Love the way the arm crosses the logo. I can't say I'd expect on 8 on that one given the wear in the blue section but this is my first time seeing a card form the set and I LOVE it!! Very cool design for the time period, no?
  • 54topps54topps Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭
    That card should have an O/C qualifier.
  • DialjDialj Posts: 1,636 ✭✭
    Looks like to me it should have been O/C.
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  • JustusJustus Posts: 179 ✭✭
    Agree that it should be O/C. That's on old flip...if it were cracked and re-submitted now, it would definitely get O/C.
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  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OC all the way and I'm far from an expert.

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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This must be centering day at the farm. I measured at the bottom of the stick - which appears to be the left border - I get worse than 70/30 - so I agree with those who think it's an OC.

    Not a bad looking card - but I wouldn't pay "8" prices for it. In the 63F BB arena - I've seen "sliders" like this go for about 60 to 70% SMR to the best of my recollection.

    I've become such a centering freak that I wouldn't touch a card like that with a 40 ft pole.

    BTW - what do you get when you cross a rooster with a telephone pole?

    A 40 foot c#ck that wants to reach out and touch someone. (ya have to remember the old ATT ads to get that one)
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