WTB Hal Chase S74 silks

[BobC]

Originally Posted by realbigfatdog

Thanks for the info, Bob! I'm not crazy-condition sensitive, but I wouldn't want any that were super frayed, either. I dont need them graded (I can submit them myself), just looking to get as many different as I can. I'll be in the lookout for the turkey red back variant now, too.

As far as the graded whites, the brown ink A is only about half attached to the backing. I actually had to submit it two times before they would slab it. I'm assuming the blue ink A got it's grade due to a little bit of excessive fraying. The back is firm on that one all the way around.

Thanks again for the info. Hopefully a Red Sun will pop up for sale someday, too.

Mike

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Thanks Mike, can understand their concern if the backing was coming off. Though I doubt anyone could try and fake an S74 silk, I can definitely see someone taking the backing off the silk off a common player, and then maybe trying to re-attach it to a more famous player and HOFer, like Cobb. Can also then see SGC viewing a partially attached back as a suspected attempt to re-back a silk, and thus technically make it an alteration, deserving of an "A" grade. But if that was the original backing that brown ink Chase silk came with, and after more than a century it finally started to come a little loose, it isn't really fair to whoever submitted it to automatically hit it with an "A" grade IMO. But I guess if SGC can't really tell the difference, it probably is best to err on the side of caution as opposed to accepting an altered item.

However, if the other, blue ink, Chase silk did have the backing still solidly attached, even with excessive fraying it would/should still get a numerical grade. Unless whoever submitted it had requested it be authenticated only, with no numerical grade assigned. Otherwise, there had to be something else SGC found to only let them give it an "A" grade. Can't really tell from your scanned image, but if I could see it in person maybe something else would jump out. Otherwise, looks like a typical, solid "3" grade silk to me. I'll take a look and let you know if I have any extra Chase silks you might be looking for.