Detached cover at one staple

[spideyfan-migration]

Hi everyone. Just wondering what can be the highest grade given to a book with the cover detached at one staple? This is the only problem, otherwise, book appears in VF/NM condition. Would it grade somewhere in the G-VG range or should it be graded as VF/NM qualified, with the problem noted?

 

Thanks.

[supapimp]

i had a batman 232 with the same defect, it was graded by CGC as FN/VF 7.0. structually the book was NM, but due to the detachment it rec'd the 7.0 grade.

[PovertyRow]

Would it grade somewhere in the G-VG range or should it be graded as VF/NM qualified, with the problem noted?

 

Not sure what criteria CGC would use but bsed on previous such a defect on a HG book SHOULD get it a Qualified.

[Zonker]

Would it make a difference whether this was a bindery defect (the 2nd staple was never applied) or the very common defect of a "staple pull" (the cover spine is actually split for the half-inch around the staple? Supapimp's 7.0 example seems a very clean and neat example if it is a staple pull (I couldn't read the exact notation on the label).

 

I would have thought "Fine" was about as high as most books would go with staple pulls, but I suppose an otherwise-beautiful book would earn the F/VF split grade.

[drbanner]

If the book is high grade, it will get a qualified label. If not (9.0 or lower or so?), it will get a universal grade. I have a beautiful Tomahawk 116 with a clean staple pull (common defect on 15-cent DC's) that got a 9.2 Qualified grade.

[garthgantu]

So in Supa's Batman 232 example above, we should assume that the book would have rec'd a 9.0 or less if both staples were intact, but because one was detached it got a 7.0? Seems like that 232 would grade higher if both staples were attached, and therefore should have gotten the qualified label...

[Zanarkand]

I don't like Qualified notation. What I do is give the book the average between what it would be without the defect and what it is with the defect.

 

The highest grade allowing the cover to be detached at one staple is G/VG 3.0, by strict Overstreet standards. If the book looks like VF/NM 9.0 without the staple pull, then I'd give it a Fine 6.0 overall.

 

When listing the book, I'd offer it as a Fine 6.0 and clearly note in the description why it looks so much nicer than my grade.

[fantastic_four]

The highest grade allowing the cover to be detached at one staple is G/VG 3.0, by strict Overstreet standards. If the book looks like VF/NM 9.0 without the staple pull, then I'd give it a Fine 6.0 overall.

 

When listing the book, I'd offer it as a Fine 6.0 and clearly note in the description why it looks so much nicer than my grade.

 

I've heard of CGC giving the submitter the option to choose between those two scenarios before, which makes sense to me. The example I'm thinking of was a Qualified Spidey #17 CGC 9.4 with a 2" manufacturing tear through a bunch of interior pages. The owner resubmitted and asked CGC to give it a Universal label and just downgrade for the defect, which they did.

 

I've got no problem with that approach...either way, a buyer won't be misled into paying too much for a high-grade looking book with a single grade-lowering defect.