what grade?

Saw this is the latest Goodwin auction. How did this get a PSA4? It has paper loss on the font that even a chimp can't miss.

PSA4 Thorpe

Jay,

I agree with you on the grade, but I'm not sure those marks on his chest are paper loss, at least as it's usually encountered/dealt with by TPGs.
They are certainly surface blemishes of some type and their location is unfortunate on this card, but they just look different to me- like some sort of gloss damage or other defect I can't very well describe.

Here are two that suffer from similar damage that came up in the last Goodwin auction:



The damage is not exactly the same, but I think it's treated the same.
Here's a Successful Farming card I won raw years ago that has a couple of "contact point" abrasions, a small one on the hip and a more noticeable one on the knee:

The Thorpe card looks to have damage somewhat in the middle of the Green-Joyce cards and my SF card.


Again though, I think the grade is high and the flaw distracting--but it is Thorpe!!

yea i don't think they're paper loss.  i had a group of these M cards one time and i think a couple suffered the same thing, just some printing defect i chalked it up to.

bleh i've seen worse 4s