M114 photos

[FrankWakefield]

The only nice thoughts I can muster about those PSA slabs are that PSA graded those early on, before they knew how Baseball Magazine photos are supposed to look. And that they wish they'd not graded those that way.

Reckon if someone trimmed down an M114 to a similar size, and then sent the newly trimmed version along with one of the previously graded in the slab Baseball Magazines, maybe someone could ask, "please grade this as you did this one already in one of your holders." Think they'd grade another?

The M113s are a monster to store, and M114s aren't all that much easier. I think if all of mine were slabbed for free then they'd be better protected from handling damage, but it'd take a delivery truck to haul them to a bank's safety deposit boxes.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

The only nice thoughts I can muster about those PSA slabs are that PSA graded those early on, before they knew how Baseball Magazine photos are supposed to look. And that they wish they'd not graded those that way.

Well, since I don't have any nice thoughts about the opinion sellers, I will just repeat, and leave sitting without comment, a portion of your post that has been valid on an uncountable number of occasions, with all of the opinion sellers :


"graded those ... before they knew how (insert item here) are supposed to look"

[bswhiten]

This one was the first graded and it is not hand cut/trimmed.
The second through how ever many submitter convinced PSA that these are all handcut and that is what PSA lists the entire category now.
I got them to slab the "6" too from one of Kelly's articles. Mine was already trimmed...I most definitely would not have trimmed it down to fit a holder.

Doug - PSA lists as Baseball Magazine because that is how they are checklisted in the big book.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by bswhiten

This one was the first graded and it is not hand cut/trimmed.
The second through how ever many submitter convinced PSA that these are all handcut and that is what PSA lists the entire category now.
I got them to slab the "6" too from one of Kelly's articles. Mine was already trimmed...I most definitely would not have trimmed it down to fit a holder.

Doug - PSA lists as Baseball Magazine because that is how they are checklisted in the big book.

Nice one Ben, I agree that it isn't trimmed, and good point about the big book.