Grading Question

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Do you know why glueing it back together would made it frost?

If I understand the process correctly, it's not really the glueing back together that makes it frost. When PSA slabs a card, it is sonically sealed. They don’t use any adhesive or anything to join the two halves of the slab. Now, when you crack a slab in two, there are tiny amounts of plastic that transfer from each piece (half of the slab) to another. Even if you get a clean break and both pieces are intact, there is still some amount of transfer. When you go to reseal the case, we don’t have the same technology that PSA does to sonically re-seal the case. Even if we did, the plastic transfer is what causes the frosting and it would still show through anyway. Glue just makes it even worse.

Originally Posted by bnorth

Edit: The cards David pictured are not in the same holder. Same serial# but not the same holder.

What makes you say that?