What's going on with this BVG Mantle?

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by lowpopper

This Mantle is beautiful. So what if Beckett is .5 Behind??



I would buy this card.

Thanks for the comment, I am a sucker for centered Mantles and I bought the card knowing it had the ding. If it could regrade as PSA 6.5 I would be good with that. I am just not sure it would even be a PSA 6. So I am thinking BGS is a full grade behind PSA at least.

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[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

Thanks for the comment, I am a sucker for centered Mantles and I bought the card knowing it had the ding. If it could regrade as PSA 6.5 I would be good with that. I am just not sure it would even be a PSA 6. So I am thinking BGS is a full grade behind PSA at least.

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Don't get me wrong. I'm not a huge Beckett fan, but they don't necessarily lag terribly behind in the higher grades. I think that could pull a PSA 6. It is a great looking card, I just think overgraded at a 7.

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a huge Beckett fan, but they don't necessarily lag terribly behind in the higher grades. I think that could pull a PSA 6. It is a great looking card, I just think overgraded at a 7.

Agreed that it is overgraded, compared to PSA. Here is a PSA 6.5. Which one do you think is better? I think the PSA wins on this one.

[tschock]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

Agreed that it is overgraded, compared to PSA. Here is a PSA 6.5. Which one do you think is better? I think the PSA wins on this one.

Everything else being equal (meaning price), I prefer the BVG one. The angle cut on the PSA is really distracting to me. Personal choice (obviously).

[jchcollins]

PSA traditionally has placed corners above everything else. Everything is tightening up these days, but they are going to be more apt to say a 65/35 card with perfect corners is a PSA 7 than a 50/50 centered card with maybe borderline corner wear for the grade. SGC used to be more lenient as well - and a place where mildly O/C cards could go to get a fair shake, but not anymore. I've seen cards graded recently by SGC get 5's or 5.5's due to centering that would have been 7's with PSA. Some of this I think is attributable to new graders, or those who simply don't know how to measure centering properly. 70/30 shouldn't get the same penalty as 85/15. And some sets have to be measured out because of thickness differences in the borders when compared to other sets. '67 Topps is an example of that. Even a little bit o/c might be judged as really bad at first, because the borders were smaller than other Topps sets of the era.