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Posted By: warshawlaw

Ah, innocence. Touching in this day and age.

The fact is that a well-reputed expert collector or experienced dealer's submissions are treated differently. Note that I did not say graded differently, only treated differently. A grader from one of the big services told me flat out that when someone with some hobby stature submits something they've not seen before, they are inclined to take his word that it is what it is because that is who they would call if they had a question anyway. Take the same card and have Joe Blow submit it and it will not be graded.