Opinions on PSA 9 Cobb

[Leon]

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

I always look at two things first with high grade...

1. Does it strike me as “short” compared to other cards in the same set? YES.

2. Is the bottom edge parallel with the top edge? NO.

So, I’d personally avoid it.

I am doing the exact same critiquing nowadays. No short cards or ones that just don't look right. And please, let me have big borders. This is just about a perfect card for me.....the slab is somewhat meaningless.

[Rhotchkiss]

Meanwhile, I wonder who is the owner that wanted it reholdered and why did they want it reholdered?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

It also breaks my heart if that card is altered. Pre-grading days that card would've been the find of a lifetime even before it was "perfected" now it's quite possibly destroyed.

[iowadoc77]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

It also breaks my heart if that card is altered. Pre-grading days that card would've been the find of a lifetime even before it was "perfected" now it's quite possibly destroyed.

So true. Very sad

[iowadoc77]

Apparently I can’t read. Says it is headed to auction soon. Should be interesting. Will go for a ton!

[swarmee]

Well, it was graded a very long time ago with a "02" at the beginning of the cert number. So if it was trimmed, it was done way back in the early days.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Well, it was graded a very long time ago with a "02" at the beginning of the cert number. So if it was trimmed, it was done way back in the early days.

Daniel Desmond (DP in the article) did a long interview with VCBC in 1996. He had altered thousands at that time and is still doing it today. Time means nothing.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=270622


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[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by iowadoc77

Apparently I can’t read. Says it is headed to auction soon. Should be interesting. Will go for a ton!

great, then you can add it to the running total as the scam gets up closer to a billion.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by iowadoc77

Apparently I can’t read. Says it is headed to auction soon. Should be interesting. Will go for a ton!

If it goes for a ton, then the buyer better really like the label/flip. That's in a PSA holder? Kinda surprised to see that....

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Fred

If it goes for a ton, then the buyer better really like the label/flip. That's in a PSA holder? Kinda surprised to see that....

What's remotely surprising about it?

It simply accompanies tens of thousands of other altered cards just like it (in numbered PSA slabs). I'd be way more surprised if they had correctly labeled it for the "A" it is.

[iowadoc77]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Meanwhile, I wonder who is the owner that wanted it reholdered and why did they want it reholdered?

Good point. Could have been in a really old holder or maybe looking to sell
But lots of questions on this one.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Leon

I am doing the exact same critiquing nowadays. No short cards or ones that just don't look right. And please, let me have big borders. This is just about a perfect card for me.....the slab is somewhat meaningless.

Off centered top to bottom to the point you can see the name on the top... Atrocious! Who could love a card like that?