Is PSA vintage grading coming back to "normal"?

[Tom S.]

I just received my small 11 card lot of 1952 Topps that I sent in under the 1950's special that PSA ran last October. Based on all of the 4 and 5 grades (when I was hoping for 6's) that I got on another batch of similarly conditioned 52T cards that I submitted in the early part of 2023, I really wasn't expecting anything different this time around.

I was really surprised to find out that this batch fared much better:

83952609 1952 TOPPS 15 JOHNNY PESKY BLACK BACK VERY GOOD-EXCELLENT 4
83952610 1952 TOPPS 85 BOB KUZAVA EXCELLENT-MINT 6
83952611 1952 TOPPS 90 MICKEY GRASSO EXCELLENT-MINT 6
83952612 1952 TOPPS 104 DON KOLLOWAY NEAR MINT 7
83952613 1952 TOPPS 116 CARL SCHEIB NEAR MINT 7
83952614 1952 TOPPS 225 FRANK BAUMHOLTZ EXCELLENT-MINT+ 6.5
83952615 1952 TOPPS 229 GENE BEARDON NEAR MINT-MINT 8
83952616 1952 TOPPS 249 BOBBY ADAMS EXCELLENT-MINT 6
83952617 1952 TOPPS 283 PHIL MASI NEAR MINT 7
83952618 1952 TOPPS 292 FLOYD BAKER NEAR MINT-MINT 8
83952619 1952 TOPPS 295 PHIL CAVARRETTA EXCELLENT-MINT 6

The Pesky and Cavarrretta cards were both graded as 4's in my first sub; Pesky came back as a 4 again but the Cavarretta bumped a full 2 grades.

Has anyone else noticed a return to "normalcy" on how PSA grades vintage cards like this?

Tom S@ndl!n