Heritage's Next Event Auction has started posting books ! 31 31

[MrBedrock]

20 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

You are a wild man Mr. Bedrock

Someone has to be.

[Dark Knight]

2 hours ago, Gotham Kid said:

Heritage Tec 31

now (with tape)

before (sans tape)

But.. but... I thought CGC would grade a book with tape as if the tape did not exist? So it should still grade out a 1.0 no?

[batman_fan]

2 hours ago, Gotham Kid said:

Heritage Tec 31

now (with tape)

before (sans tape)

So tape still bumps the number in the corner in a way to make it advantageous to add tape. Really glad to see CGC resolved this issue. 
i still maintain tape should be called restoration. Archival tape is professional. Non archival is amateur. 

Edited January 22, 2020 by batman_fan

[Gotham Kid]

3 minutes ago, batman_fan said:

So tape still bumps the number in the corner in a way to make it advantageous to add tape. Really glad to see CGC resolved this issue. 

 

Grade Date:	12/16/2019

[batman_fan]

Just now, Gotham Kid said:

 

Grade Date:	12/16/2019

  I thought tape was this whole big discussion and CGC was going to stop bumping the grade for tape. Maybe that was in a parallel universe. 

[MrBedrock]

Maybe the addition of tape didn't have anything to do with the grade bump.

[drbanner]

7 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

Maybe the addition of tape didn't have anything to do with the grade bump.

Yep, book was obviously cleaned and the color chips at the top left of the cover above "No." seem to have moved. 

Edited January 22, 2020 by drbanner

[Gotham Kid]

2 minutes ago, drbanner said:

Yep, book was obviously cleaned and the color chips at the top left of the cover above "No." seem to have moved. 

near the Monk as well

[batman_fan]

20 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

Maybe the addition of tape didn't have anything to do with the grade bump.

Inconceivable !

Okay, maybe you are correct.  Pitchfork back in closet and torches extinguished  

[Dark Knight]

So why bother adding tape then if cleaning would bump up the grade?  I see major improvement on the spine area too especially at the bottom staple area and less white with the new grade.  

[batman_fan]

5 minutes ago, Dark Knight said:

So why bother adding tape then if cleaning would bump up the grade?  I see major improvement on the spine area too especially at the bottom staple area and less white with the new grade.  

I would assume the person who added the tape has a father-in-law with a tape factory

[lou_fine]

4 hours ago, batman_fan said:

i still maintain tape should be called restoration. Archival tape is professional. Non archival is amateur. 

Not sure about now, but it used to be that the safe archival tape resulted in a PLOD because it was done with obvious intent. 

The damaging inflicting non-archival tape was considered to be Universal because nobody would intentionally try to upgrade a book using this kind of "bad" tape.  

[RareHighGrade]

5 hours ago, drbanner said:

Yep, book was obviously cleaned and the color chips at the top left of the cover above "No." seem to have moved. 

It looks to me like they rolled the front cover to the left so that many of the front cover defects around the spine were moved to the back cover.  I recall there being a big uproar over this technique on the boards a while back.  Although some of the defects near the spine have been hidden, it looks like new chips and other defects occurred to the right edge during the process.

Edited January 23, 2020 by RareHighGrade

[Crowzilla]

7 hours ago, Gotham Kid said:

near the Monk as well

And what was inside the "D" in Detective?

 

[tth2]

11 hours ago, RareHighGrade said:

It looks to me like they rolled the front cover to the left so that many of the front cover defects around the spine were moved to the back cover.  I recall there being a big uproar over this technique on the boards a while back.  Although some of the defects near the spine have been hidden, it looks like new chips and other defects occurred to the right edge during the process.

Man I love this hobby! 

[batman_fan]

48 minutes ago, tth2 said:

Man I love this hobby! 

 and with that, this thread can be closed

[Gotham Kid]

On 1/21/2020 at 7:14 PM, Gotham Kid said:

Suspense 3 5.0 (R)

correction

[comicjack]

12 minutes ago, Gotham Kid said:

correction

Big Big Bucks 

[Mmehdy]

On 1/22/2020 at 6:18 PM, RareHighGrade said:

It looks to me like they rolled the front cover to the left so that many of the front cover defects around the spine were moved to the back cover.  I recall there being a big uproar over this technique on the boards a while back.  Although some of the defects near the spine have been hidden, it looks like new chips and other defects occurred to the right edge during the process.

WOW..amazing what can be done

[Gotham Kid]

16 minutes ago, Mmehdy said:

On 1/23/2020 at 2:18 AM, RareHighGrade said:

It looks to me like they rolled the front cover to the left so that many of the front cover defects around the spine were moved to the back cover.  I recall there being a big uproar over this technique on the boards a while back.  Although some of the defects near the spine have been hidden, it looks like new chips and other defects occurred to the right edge during the process.

WOW..amazing what can be done

'amazing' is the last adjective I'd use

Edited February 1, 2020 by Gotham Kid