When and how do you decide to have photos PSA-certified?

Lorewalker · #1 04-01-2025, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by TCMA

I like your thinking but would this account for the photos of other sports sold by National Sports Photos? Also, we have seen two examples thus far of original news service photos with the cursive writing sitting on top of the emulsion. Both examples have credit stamping from International News on reverse. Either way, I feel as though PSA would treat the National Sports Photos prints as "souvenir photos," which they will not render an opinion on. There is no official stance from PSA online about these but really any commercially available photo are treated as such. Best example I can give are modern photographic prints from Photo File (aka TV Sports Mailbag in the early days) that can be found all over ebay.

If PSA/DNA will not render an opinion on these photos and consider them souvenir photos then maybe the best route is to submit info to PSA for them consider grading them as a "card" issue.

TCMA · #2 04-01-2025, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Lorewalker

If PSA/DNA will not render an opinion on these photos and consider them souvenir photos then maybe the best route is to submit info to PSA for them consider grading them as a "card" issue.

The issue there is these are uncatalogued and nobody really has a handle on exactly what they are quite yet. According to their advertising, National Sports Photos would even take requests to obtain images of athletes not on their stock list. So, a complete checklist is probably not something that is likely to surface.

Lorewalker · #3 04-08-2025, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by TCMA

The issue there is these are uncatalogued and nobody really has a handle on exactly what they are quite yet. According to their advertising, National Sports Photos would even take requests to obtain images of athletes not on their stock list. So, a complete checklist is probably not something that is likely to surface.

A complete checklist would not be an obstacle in getting PSA to identify it as a a "card" issue. You are correct, however, that the issue would need to be cataloged or have a detailed description of the National Sports Photos' characteristics.

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