Thanks for the examples. It does show how subjective things can be, I think - I bet if you had the same cards graded by PSA and were able to get an explanation, it would likely be totally different.
For what it’s worth, this is the card in question. I’m not going to try to get weird angle pictures of the specific defects in the light - but the red is a light bend, the yellow is a surface scratch, and the blue at the bottom is some light wrinkling. Decent looking card, right? It was a BVG 4. (Busted out of an extremely scratched and ugly slab). But I am guessing PSA would give it a 3 at most. Unlike in some of your prewar examples, the corners on this one aren’t really a problem for a 4 or 5, and the centering isn’t an issue at all - so again it’s a case there is Beckett a little lenient since the other typical areas for a downgrade are nicer?
I’m happy with it, and suppose at the end of the day that’s all that matters...
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