Ink on front cover- ballpark grade? 2 2

[danielev]

Writing under “Four”. How badly with this effect the grade? Thank you

 

Edited July 20, 2022 by danielev

[Galen130]

That's not how this thread works.  We need more photos in order to give our estimate. 

[grendelbo]

@Galen130is right. A post like this is better suited for the Grading and Restoration Questions forum.

But, on an otherwise perfect book, that writing (and I'd call it light and fairly inconspicuous), would probably drop it into the VF range. The writing medium will matter. Pencil < Pen < Grease Marker < Marker. It wouldn't matter at all in the FN range. You'll typically see more books with writing like this graded at 7.0-7.5.

The writing appears to be in pencil. Here's an example of a high grade book with pencil writing on the cover.

Overstreet will tell you a 4.0 is the best grade this book could receive. But CGC is different.

 

[zzutak]

Any erasure marks and/or ink loss resulting from an attempt to remove cover writing will often be seen as a more serious defect than the original writing.  So make like Paul McCartney and let it be! 

[Engr62]

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