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Making the Grade (July): Domino's auto, Sasha Banks & Ricochet gems, vintage buys and ... a 40-cent slabbed pack?
Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.
Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ... and this time it's a few fresh slabs and a few more past pick-ups than usual as my pre-COVID grading submissions are delayed and still in graders' hands.
OH, OH DOMINO ...
The Card: Zazie Beetz 2019 Goodwin Champions Autographs
The Reason Graded: Goodwin Champions is always full of interesting and different autographs -- many super-affordable ones, too, though the years -- but this is not one of the dirt-cheap sigs that has some obscure sport's star on it. Instead, this is of the celeb variety in the brand as Beetz might be best known for her roles in Deadpool 2 (where I know her), Atlanta or Joker. Domino in the movies is different than Domino in the books, but I think it worked so this auto was firmly on my want list when I first saw she was a signer. She's got almost 40 different cards in this release, which is the home of her only certified autographs so far.
The Grade: BGS 10/10

Grade 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5 9 9.5 10 B10 Total
Population 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Reality Check: This was a nice surprise to me as paper-stock autos can always have minor problems -- especially with on-card autos. This was not a pull of mine -- in fact, it was in a previous Buzz Buys item as seen here -- so I was a little surprised but I also knew it looked grading worthy with scrutiny so I opted for BGS. I was also surprised to see that it's the only one graded, but there are other versions. Three of her inscribed cards have been graded with nothing higher than a 9.5. Even more interesting? This is just one of four 10s out of 40 cards graded from this particular set for all signers.
Keep reading for more of this month's pick-ups and new slabs for Buzz.
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This entry was posted in Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Movies, Non-sports, Pro Wrestling, Making the Grade, Vintage and tagged Eddie Lacy, NHL, Sasha Banks, 1965 Topps, 1979 Topps, 1980-81 Topps, Larry Csonka, 2017 Leaf Valiant, Brandon Belt, Jonathan Allen, Nate "Tiny" Archibald, 2018 Elite Draft Picks, Calvin Ridley, Zazie Beetz, 2018 Topps WWE Then Now Forever, Ricochet, John Johnson, 2019 Topps Now WWE, 2019 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions, 2011 Bowman Chrome Prospects, Carney Lansford, 1984-85 Topps, Masanori Murakami, Dick Estelle, Walter Davis, 2013 Topps Museum Collection on July 1, 2020 by BlowoutBuzz.

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