first off, i feel i should extend my apologies to all, but especially to those that had posted
before the title was changed claiming tie-breaker "prizes" which were really more like "boobie prizes," than anything truly desirable.
i can imagine more than a few participants who re-opened this thread to edit their posts and just said "huh? [wtf] you've
got to be kidding!" Anyway i am sorry for what i, in retrospect consider to be an embarrassing example of deceptive advertising.
the good news is we have a winner.
turns out it was the
final guess posted by
frank a.- psa 2; sc 350/30.
frank- please contact me with your info, as well as which items you would like (if any or all) so i can ship them out to you.
also, i think mike p. (vtgmsc) deserves a special commendation (perhaps a runner-up "prize") for the effort he put into covering
all the tpg possibilities. his post was quite amusing.
my sincere thanks go out to everyone that responded. i truly appreciate your opinions & comments!
probably the most educational aspect of the thread was the realization of what an exercise in futility, humility and senility this turned out to be.
i actually thought this card was a "slam dunk" minimum 2.5, perhaps even a 3
when i sent it to psa!
reminds me of how far in the past i am still living, and the need to catch up with
today's standards of tpg grading.
anyway, thank you everybody.
see you in the 21st century!
