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What is the oddest/strangest sports item you've seen slabbed?

BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,633 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I cannot recall any. What makes your list?

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    doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A while back, I actually saw an off the wall grading company slab some magazine pictures of Joe Louis. They were little pictures cut out from a magazine with scissors. That just blew my mind.

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    RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭
    edited July 18, 2020 4:09AM

    The Sept 24, 1985 Cubs-Expos game ticket (PSA 6) is currently for sale on eBay. This was the game that scenes from Ferris Bueller's Day Off were filmed.

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    blurryfaceblurryface Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    A while back, I actually saw an off the wall grading company slab some magazine pictures of Joe Louis. They were little pictures cut out from a magazine with scissors. That just blew my mind.

    A "xrc" newspaper magazine clipping of nolan ryan. I think 5 actually made their way into holders.

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    byronscott4everbyronscott4ever Posts: 932 ✭✭✭

    @Griffins said:
    Offered without comment.

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    bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    A while back, I actually saw an off the wall grading company slab some magazine pictures of Joe Louis. They were little pictures cut out from a magazine with scissors. That just blew my mind.

    Didn't PSA do that with Nolan Ryan newspaper clippings?

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    doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @blurryface and @bobbyw8469 I think this is the Ryan newspaper clipping.

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    dad2cl3dad2cl3 Posts: 331 ✭✭✭✭

    Didn't realize PSA graded magazine and newspaper clippings!

    Jason

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    LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 20, 2020 10:41AM

    @dad2cl3 said:
    Didn't realize PSA graded magazine and newspaper clippings!

    Jason

    In general, they don't. The Nolan's above were a mistake and have the "No Longer Grading" tag now: https://www.psacard.com/pop/baseball-cards/1966/sporting-news-hand-cut-no-longer-grading/113309

    There are several others that were meant to be cut out and saved as "cards" that PSA does still grade, 1970 Dayton Daily News Bubblegumless and 1936 Detroit Times Sport Stamps are a couple that come to mind.

    ETA: Sample of the 70 DDN ...

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    doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dad2cl3 said:
    Didn't realize PSA graded magazine and newspaper clippings!

    Jason

    They don't anymore, here is a thread about it from a few years back that I found.

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/948797/does-psa-grade-or-encapsulate-newspaper-clippings

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    stevegarveyfanstevegarveyfan Posts: 583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PSA just graded these for me.

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    blurryfaceblurryface Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    @blurryface and @bobbyw8469 I think this is the Ryan newspaper clipping.

    Ooooffff. Who would buy such a thing!?!

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    DeutscherGeistDeutscherGeist Posts: 2,998 ✭✭✭✭

    Those newspaper clippings are not going to be flagged as "trimmed"? I guess investing in a proper paper trimmer has its advantages. There are those Topps Nestle cards that I have seen designated as "hand cut," so I assume paper cutters were used?

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    GansetttimeGansetttime Posts: 244 ✭✭✭

    @stevegarveyfan said:
    PSA just graded these for me.

    Did you ask PSA if they would grade it before you submitted? I ask because I am looking at a newspaper clipping of my favorite player that I would purchase, grade, and add to the master set.

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    stevegarveyfanstevegarveyfan Posts: 583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Gansetttime said:

    @stevegarveyfan said:
    PSA just graded these for me.

    Did you ask PSA if they would grade it before you submitted? I ask because I am looking at a newspaper clipping of my favorite player that I would purchase, grade, and add to the master set.

    I did not ask. I just knew that if they wouldn't grade it, I wouldn't be charged. So I took the plunge, and lo and behold, they graded it.

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