1961 Golden Press grading

[tedzan]

The prices and the grading is all over the place on these cards.

A Gehrig on ebay for $325 vs. another for $20.....with no discernable difference in their grading. I could provide many more such examples.

My advice is purchase the album (relatively inexpensive), and enjoy these cards as they were meant to be enjoyed.





TED Z

T206 Reference
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[commishbob]

Originally Posted by tedzan

The prices and the grading is all over the place on these cards.

A Gehrig on ebay for $325 vs. another for $20.....with no discernable difference in their grading. I could provide many more such examples.

My advice is purchase the album (relatively inexpensive), and enjoy these cards as they were meant to be enjoyed.


TED Z

T206 Reference
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Solid advice that we can all stand to be reminded of from time to time.

[ALR-bishop]

I do not collect these but do have a full set of the Topps 67 Punch Outs. These were sold in 3 card perforated strips. I am mostly an ungraded collector and know nothing about PSA's grading standards for perforated cards. But since the 67 Punch Outs were a limited distribution test issue, in putting the set together I bought them anyway I could find them and ended up buying several graded examples and saw many others.

I have seen several highly graded examples with straight top and bottom borders. That is impossible without cutting or trimming. The middle card in a strip would always have two perforated/torn edges if separated by hand. The top and bottom cards in the strip would have one straight border and one serrated border.

[swarmee]

If that was the case for that test set, I'm not too surprised. PSA may not have known exactly how they were produced and graded them that way by accident. Or they've changed their standards since then. Would be interesting to know their flip styles and cert numbers.