Buying the holder: T222 Alexander

[bcornell]

[REMOVED] This forum is done.

[fkw]

The T222 and T200 cards are real photos, not printed.

I always thought the image would be completely ruined if water was applied to it, just like most any real photograph.

That said the back does look washed out.

[Ease]

I see what you're talking about, but that's a heckuva nice card too either way.

[Matthew H]

You've got to admit... It is a beautiful holder.

[jimivintage]

Bill,

As you know I once had a nice sized collection of these beauties, and you certainly helped me along the way. During that span of time, I refused to touch a PSA graded T222.....just something fishy about the grading. It is certainly "washed out" or liquidated somehow. In my opinion, if we were to take the card out of the holder we'd certainly be able to determine it fairly quickly.

[jimivintage]

Forgot to mention in the last post. The "baggy" look is terrible in the holder, too. I'd be fearing these photographs would have have the corners "flaking off" as they are sort of just floating around in the holder. I wonder how many times the owner had to tap the edge to make it look perfectly centered in the holder!

[brianp-beme]

Not a PSA defender but couldn't the washed out look be the result of how the icky 'bag' that encases this card reflected the light when it was scanned?

Brian