Who here has the oldest PSA graded card?
Foo3112
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PSA started grading in 1991 - so who here actually owns one of the first graded cards?
Post the cert number and lets see who has the oldest.
**If you don't feel comfortable writing the actual number, then transpose some of the last numbers so we can see where you stand**
My oldest is cert # 08183437
(NOTE: I changed the last 3 numbers for 2 reasons, 1 - Its a high dollar card and I didn't want to feel as though I was bragging and 2 - I don't want everyone to start checking cert numbers - If someone feels like telling everyone what card it is, then by all means feel free)
So if YOU have something that can beat this, then post the magic number.
This should be interesting...
Post the cert number and lets see who has the oldest.
**If you don't feel comfortable writing the actual number, then transpose some of the last numbers so we can see where you stand**
My oldest is cert # 08183437
(NOTE: I changed the last 3 numbers for 2 reasons, 1 - Its a high dollar card and I didn't want to feel as though I was bragging and 2 - I don't want everyone to start checking cert numbers - If someone feels like telling everyone what card it is, then by all means feel free)
So if YOU have something that can beat this, then post the magic number.
This should be interesting...
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Cert numbers where never in numerical order.
1955 Bowman Raw complete with 90% Ex-NR or better
Now seeking 1949 Eureka Sportstamps...NM condition
Working on '78 Autographed set now 99.9% complete -
Working on '89 Topps autoed set now complete
Really? Glad I wrote this then because otherwise I would have never known. How come then when I get cards graded, they are listed in numerical order then?
I wish PSA would allow an option, that the owner of the card could enable. I have traded some cards, I think it would be interesting to see where they are in the world.
Wouldn't that be cool! Would be neat if PSA had a program to register your own cards which kept track and records (dates) to see where your cards have been and eventually end up over time.
<< <i>Beat what??? Cert numbers where never in numerical order.
Really? Glad I wrote this then because otherwise I would have never know. How come then when I get cards graded, they are listed in numerical number then? >>
Each submission will be in numerical order.....but that is where it ends.
1955 Bowman Raw complete with 90% Ex-NR or better
Now seeking 1949 Eureka Sportstamps...NM condition
Working on '78 Autographed set now 99.9% complete -
Working on '89 Topps autoed set now complete
. But they go all over the place. Yours age in order because they are filling a gap of like 100,000 and those will be in order but then they will start with a completely different number. It was thought also that the numbers or groupings go with a certain grader.
This is my oldest flip.
The flip style is original to the early days of PSA grading, same kind of flip as the Gretzky Wagner.
When this card was graded I was probably 9 or 10, only dreaming of one day owning this card. Heck, I didn't even know who PSA was until 1995 or so.
<< <i>Correct me if Im wrong, but isnt the Gretzy Wagner numbered 00000000001? >>
It is, but they never went in order. That was more of a marketing gimmick.
If one has the inclination to search I think HRH told the story here or in the other forum about 6-7 years ago.
Thanks
Craig
1955 Bowman Raw complete with 90% Ex-NR or better
Now seeking 1949 Eureka Sportstamps...NM condition
Working on '78 Autographed set now 99.9% complete -
Working on '89 Topps autoed set now complete
<< <i>Interesting thread. Anyone have a guess on how old this one is? I would love to know!
Thanks
Craig
Don't know how times and perceptions have changed, but whoever graded that card should have requested no qualifiers. It seems to have the centering for an unqualified 8. Frankly, I've seen unqualified 9's with worse tilt, though the centering on this one may not make 9 requirements at the "worst point."
<< <i>could be the qualifier is because of back centering. That happens a lot on 1955 Bowman baseball cards, for example >>
It's possible, though I've gotten unqualified PSA 8's that are nearly miscut on the back.
<< <i>The Gretzky Wagner is no longer in it's original flip........it still has the same serial number though.
Interesting, didn't know that. Why'd they reholder?
Tabe
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<< <i>Correct me if Im wrong, but isnt the Gretzy Wagner numbered 00000000001? >>
It is, but they never went in order. That was more of a marketing gimmick. >>
I know, thats what I was getting at. I didnt think the first card PSA ever graded was the Wagner rookie.
Old font style used, long bar code. This was the style of the flip for
the first 5 years or so of grading, until 1997, when they got rid of the longer bar
code.
I still own this card.
Graded with SGC before PSA graded the tallboys.
There was an even older flip when SGC was called SBC, but I don't have any examples
of that holder/flip.
I purchased this card in the late 1990's at a local card show.
I think it might be a grading company started by long time hobbyist
Tony Galovich when he was based out of California. I'm not 100% sure
of this though. Tony use to write some great articles in Tuff Stuff magazine
in the 1990's called 'point to ponder' about the hobby.
I still own this card. Today this would only grade a PSA 8.
The slab is an arrowhead slab that I think was designed or patented by
Alan Hagar. This was several years prior to PSA even existing.
When grading first came out I was very much against it.
I had bought this card way back in the early 90's and cracked it out...simply becayse I didn't like grading.
I can sefly say it an old flip
1948-76 Topps FB Sets
FB & BB HOF Player sets
1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
Jay - Also like you, I didnt like graded cards at first. I think it had a lot to do with the fact that I didnt know much about them along with how to get them graded and second - I wasnt aware what having cards graded can do for the price. Today I consider the main attraction of my collection as my graded cards.