GAI was started by the well respected former head grader at PSA, Mike Baker, I think in 2002 or so but perhaps a little before. For a while they were highly regarded. Any card designated first graded is probably from their good era. Eventually, by most accounts, they started doing too many favors for people and became unreliable and declined. Long since out of business. Mike is still around running his own gold label service or whatever one would call it.
Generally, cards graded back then were judged by more relaxed standards than today.
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My avatar is a sketch by my son who is an art school graduate. Some of his sketches and paintings are at
https://www.jamesspaethartwork.com/
He is available to do custom drawings in graphite, charcoal and other media. He also sells some of his works as note cards/greeting cards on Etsy under JamesSpaethArt.
Last edited by Peter_Spaeth; 08-27-2022 at 02:25 PM.
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