Interesting Cobb card on Ebay (opinions?)

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Posted By: MW

Good questions!

Based on the scans, it DOES appear that the card may have been in an SGC holder at one time. Since, I am not familiar with the holders of all grading companies, this is only an assumption on my part.

My hypothesis would be that the card (if graded) was encapsulated during the Rosen/Merkle era, but no longer resides in a holder. In my opinion, the T202 Cobb is undersized (top-to-bottom). A wild guess on my part would be that the card was purchased in a graded state and then "cracked" and resubmitted to PSA. Perhaps the images were taken from a catalog or the original auction listing. Perhaps they were taken before the card was removed from the holder. My first question would be, "You have many other cards on eBay that are PSA graded. Why is this card not also graded?"

Curiously, the SGC Population report for this card (Cobb-O'Leary, A Desperate Slide for Third) indicates the following eight grades:

86 - 1 (Near Mint plus)
80 - 1 (Ex/Nm)
60 - 1 (Ex)
50 - 1 (Vg-Ex)
40 - 3 (Vg)
20 - 1 (Fair)

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