Most hobbies have a pretty rigid set of condition grades, usually on a number scale with two digits (i.e., 77, or 9.8). But only a few dealers in our hobby use any number grades, and when they do it is almost always a single digit (the Warren scale), which usually can be pretty much equated to the standard scale of words (good, very good, fine, mint) that have been around forever.
But one dealer's "fine" can be *VASTLY* different from another's! Consider the following poster: http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=58052&Lot_No=52069 Heritage rates this as "fine" and yet (looking at their enlarged image), I know that I personally would have rated it as "good", and I imagine there are some who would have rated it as "very good". Of course, movie posters are far more complex than a stamp, coin, or baseball card, with a far greater surface area, and a much wider range of defects, but comic books are also complex items to grade and somehow it seems *THAT* hobby was able to come to widely accepted grading standards. Does not this incredibly wide range of condition definitions for a single poster hurt our hobby? I would think that many collectors (especially newer ones) would find it a big turn-off to buy a "fine" condition poster and then later discover that a poster in the very same condition is graded "good" by other dealers. And if so, what can be done about it? Bruce Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
