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hoytdunkI bid in one of Lew's auctions four or five years ago. Two Ruth strip cards were ok, but barely in the condition stated.
The real problem I had was I began bidding in his auction from an advertisment in SCD and the number of cards in a 1951 Bowman lot was wrong. I bid based on the number of cards in SCD. When contacting Lew after receiving the cards, he stated his auction catalog was correct and that what he goes by, which I agree. The problem came in the fact that the lot was described (as best as my memory serves) exmint or better with many near mint cards. All minor stars & minor HOFers (Boudreau, Newcombe, etc) had writing in pencil and erased and virtually all nice eye appeal cards had many light surface creases. There wasn't a card sniffing near mint in thre lot, most vg/ex or less, very overgraded. He refunded and banned me from his auctions.
I would assume you are getting a mid to lower end of the grade stated.