Hibou

Could be a 5.0 / 5.5... leaning more to a 5.0

That's awesome! 

10.0

I'd go with 1.8 / 2.0

This is still kind of a hidden gem... I have 2 copies and need to send one in.

Yours looks nice. I'd say a 4.0 / 4.5

I'm just playing from a distance and it appears my grading skills are still a grade or two lower than CGC.

On 8/27/2022 at 9:23 PM, CGC Mike said:

If people are going to post links to our competitors forum, or images of their logo or books, this thread is gone.  Actually, it's on thin ice as it is.

Hey Mike, I was trying to be very respectful of the topic I was bringing up and if the rumor is true... CGC has nothing to worry about.   I hope I didn't open up a can-o-worms.

Case in point, I don't think there's a story out there circulating about how CGC lost 300 slabs from a valued customer!

I mean, seriously... that's a death sentence! (RIP)

On 8/27/2022 at 3:28 PM, Dr. Balls said:

From a design perspective there are two goals for the label:

1. Easy for the reader to navigate visually with a typographic hierarchy that is consistent while best utilizing the white space that is created between the information points.

2. Allow for adequate space for titles and notation that fluctuate from very few words to many words, but still maintains a strong balance for 98% of all labels (2% being the ones that are impossible to fit - not everything is perfect)

it’s simple and challenging at the same time.

These are things that I pointed out to a Steve Borock before he launched CBCS as I was vying for the design work of his brand and label. I had designed a label with a scalable color key to clean up the front label and move information to the back. It was quite cool In my opinion - but alas, not enough to gain the work. Which was ok, it’s all part of getting/not getting jobs in that industry - but I felt they made a bad judgment call with their labels and logo that would affect their impression on customers.

I could be wrong but I think CBC* went through 2 or 3 variations of their label and could never get it 'pleasing to the eye' as CGC has. Interestingly, PG* has nearly copied CGC's label and looks worlds better than their original. EG* just looks like a bad traveling side show to me. 

I'm sure you had a nice design for them Dr.Balls, but you know what they say about hindsight.

I may have missed the discussion here and apologize if so, but I just heard (from a YT channel that appears to be informed) that CGC's direct competition is done and going forward, will simply be known as BGS.

Is this true?

Thanks for a fun contest, Mike! I'm happy with #34... I think I under-graded most of these.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what these grades come in as.

Congratulations... huge pickup! I'd be extremely happy with a copy like that with such eye appeal for the grade. 

I'd say there's a good chance at a 5.0 with a press. 

I'll say a 7.0 / 7.5 as well.

I don't think a press would do much but I'd say 4.5... I could see it going .5 in either direction though.

#TeamSwampThing ... but Man-Thing is awesome as well.

I'll go with 8.0 / 8.5

On 7/27/2022 at 11:44 PM, Beige said:

Some tough books.

People (inc me) may well come unstuck on a few.

Tricky 

Yes, these were a bit harder...

One 🎯 ... everything else I undergraded. 🙁

This has always been a tough book for me to grade but I'm going with a 4.0 / 4.5 ... nice looking copy for sure!

I am certainly a fan of date stamps. 

A hard book to grade but I'm going with 8.0.

It's been a while but if there's still room, I'd like to play along.

Thank you for the replies... I think I might be combining a couple of memories together. Maybe a sales thread featuring some original advertising by someone from the 30's mixed in with a discussion of Church. 

I seem to remember a (sales?) thread that featured some of Edgar Church's original advertising pieces but I'm not sure if I'm remembering something else instead.

It's also possible that what I'm describing never existed here on the boards.

To make matters worse, I'm not sure if what I'm thinking about was from 4 years ago or 10...