Question About Pedigree Certificates

[David Swan]

Are they stored in the CGC case?

 

I'd always assumed that many if not most Pedigree sets actually had physical certificates of authenticity, otherwise how would CGC verify them. I also noticed that a lot of my Pedigree comics in CGC cases appeared to have some kind of paper slipped inside, just barely peeking out and I assumed this might well be the certificate. The other day I received issue number 2 of Western Comics and it came with a certificate of authenticity as a pedigree comic from the Davis Crippen collection.

 

My question is, does CGC generally put the certificate of authenticity inside in comic within the case? Is it rare to receive the certificate external of the case (this is a first for me)?

 

Thank You

 

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[dopy02]

what you see is micro chamber paper

cgc will not encapsulate a coa

 

[David Swan]

Now this creates two new questions....

 

1. What is micro chamber paper?

 

2. What happens to the certificates of authenticity? People generally just keep them when they sell a comic?

[the420kid]

1. micro chamber paper is added to quell the acid in the pages from destroying the comic book.

 

2. I have a bunch of certs with my pedigree comics and I keep them all with their individual books. It should always be kept with the book imho.

[David Swan]

that's a shame, I have dozens of Pedigree comics and precisely one certificate

[the420kid]

well some pedigrees: boston (?), suscha, oakland, san francisco, nova scotia, aurora never had certs to begin with. pretty sure the church books go in there too.

 

Big Apple, I've received books with and without the cert. In this case I believe there were just too many books to make a cert for each one or with the sheer amount of them they are bound to be lost.

 

okajima was bought by 3 different dealers and only one made certs for his part of the collection.

 

as long as its noted on the cgc case and in the cgc database I can live without them but they are neat to have.