Schrödinger's Card

[JollyElm]

Ran across this Billy Williams on eBay today, so I thought I'd bump this old thread for some laughs.

He suffers from the same fate plaguing the Tom Seaver card, and could really use some Botox...

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And every day is a fine day to look at this 1974 Topps #456 Dave Winfield rookie card. The poster child for the question, "Does PSA ever put multiple qualifiers on a label?"

The label indicates it has a stain, but the image itself is falling off the side of the card. Did the people at PSA flip a coin to determine which qualifier should be put on the label? Is there a hierarchy? (Here's where someone who takes themselves way too seriously is a going to post the official PSA hierarchy of qualifiers to enlighten us. Ugh.)

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I hope no one cracks it out of the slab, uses pantyhose to remove the stain, and then resubmits it only to wait a couple of years to have it returned with an OC qualifier. What a terrible waste of a pair of pantyhose.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

"Does PSA ever put multiple qualifiers on a label?"
The label indicates it has a stain, but the image itself is falling off the side of the card. Did the people at PSA flip a coin to determine which qualifier should be put on the label? Is there a hierarchy?

If you want the true answer, here's what I understand to be the case: PSA never puts multiple qualifiers on a flip. The second damage would decrease the card grade and the first qualifier would remain.
The qualifier that is put on the flip, according to what I read, is the LEAST obvious one. So on that card, if they were following the rules, it would have gotten like a 3(ST) since the miscut/off-centeredness is obvious. However, I would bet that since it got an 8Q, it may not actually have a stain but the flip is a typo/mechanical error.

[Casey2296]

I have a 70 Clemente 3-d that I collected as a kid sitting in a binder pocket, it's pristine and beautiful. I don't dare touch it, pull it out of the sleeve to scan it, never even stare at it directly always with a sideways glance and never too long for fear of it cracking like a picture of Dorian Gray.

[ALR-bishop]

[Exhibitman]

The 1970 Kelloggs cards I've had for 40 years always stored flat in top loaders or in card savers are uncracked and as nice as the day I got them.



I find it increasingly difficult to get uncracked 1970s Kelloggs cards 'in the wild'. Even the few i find often end up with a cracked corner from shipping.

I haven't looked at this one in a while and I am afraid