Not Staple Holes After All!
PaulMaul
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Well if this is true, then the Munson guy should have ice picked his card before submitting.
I thought it might be some kind of scanner anomaly, but I can see them on the back scan also.
Two grade deduction, then. I'd imagine it coulda beena you-know-what.
Definitely not a two grade deduction. Staple holes will keep the card as a 1. There are 5 possibilities here:
1) They are not actually staple holes (but they sure do like they are!), but rather some print defect or scanner issue.
2) The grader missed the holes somehow and accidentally assigned the card to be graded an 8 as if there were no holes.
3) The grader noticed the holes and assigned as grade of Poor 1 but then when it went to labeling, someone made a mech error on the grade portion of the label (mech errors on the grade absolutely do happen every now and then).
4) Someone cracked open the case and switched the originally graded card with a replacement that had holes.
5) Someone printed their own fake label and sealed a card with holes in their own holder.
There could potentially have been a 6th possibility but that is ruled out: in theory, if the order had had more than one of the same card, then PSA could have sealed the two cards in each others' holders by mistake (I've had several orders where 2 cards that were not the same had had their holders swapped by PSA in the sealing process). However, if you look up the cert and the numerically successive ones on either side of it, it does not look like there is another of this card in that order.
Possibilities 4 & 5 are very unlikely. The smart money is on option 2 above.
Ok, where's the fainting emoticon?
The dots are in the exact same location in the scans of both the front and the back. If there was in fact staple holes on the front left of the card, they would then be seen on the right side of the card when looking at the back scan.
ebay.com/itm/1967-Topps-Wacky-Packs-38-Cracked-Jerk-Die-Cut-PSA-8-/381912729029
Agreed. It is the scanner.
Good catch! It's crazy how a scanner artifact can look so much like a hole!