1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #144

Ouch. The color is a huge part of what makes these cards so special and beautiful. My hope is that this one was well enjoyed on the desk of a fine & charitable gentleman in a sun-filled room for some number of decades.

Corners and edges are very strong for this card - first thing I noticed. Color and image appear slightly faded overall with centering a little off t/b, but not too many PSA 7’s out there of the Babe!

The faded surface overrides and nullifies its strong edges and corners. Send this one in for a CT scan it has been overexposed to sunlight and may have cancer.

The extreme fading sadly kills this one, for my taste.

Color looks way off, very faded. Not sure if that's a scanner issue, but it's very noticeable. The Face looks blurry as well, and centering is off top to bottom a little.

The color is very dim on this version which is important for me. But... the card has incredible edges and corners. It could also be centered a little better.

Oh dear... was this left out in the sun for a month?

All I see is the fading and it effects the colors which are way off and the image which is no longer sharp. Then I see the fading and then I realize I sadly cannot see past it. The centering left to right is good but top to bottom an opportunity. But it all comes back to the fading for me

So ugly. All the good parts of the card are missing.

This is an interesting one because it was reholdered based on the cert number so the question in my mind is whether the card was severely faded when it was originally graded two decades ago or was it left in sunlight after it was originally graded? Should it have received a different grade when it was reholdered? For our purposes here, it doesn’t really matter does it? The card has diminished eye appeal due to extreme fading and the centering is lacking as well.