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Granite State Grading

Grades with AI-assisted inspection and publishes a publicly verifiable cert for every slab — but it is not taking submissions from the public yet.

Not scoredNot yet openScores cover graders you can send cards to.
A Granite State Grading graded slab, front
Resale standingNot rated
Taking cardsNoNot yet open
Typical turnaroundNot open yet
BacklogNone published
Cert lookupPublicVerify a cert →
Owned byIndependentFounded 2024

The short version

2 min to read it all, below

The score

Scores cover graders you can send cards to. This one is not taking public submissions, so it is not scored.

Where the slab sells

  • eBay Authenticity GuaranteeNot verified
  • Major US auction housesNot verified
  • Public cert lookupYes
Market by market

What to watch

Three, and none of them is a closure. Public submissions have never opened, so there is no published price, no turnaround anyone can hold them to, and no service record to judge — only the grading itself.

All known concerns

Pricing

Not published. The company says grading will be economically priced when submissions open, which is a claim rather than a price.

The full file

What sets them apart

Software-assisted image analysis applied to the same four areas on every card — centering, corners, edges and surface — with all four subgrades printed on the front label.

What sets it apart is the evidence: cards are shot overhead and again under low-angle rake lighting, and GSG publishes paired examples showing edge recesses and corner folds that a flat overhead image hides. Every slab carries a QR-backed cert page with the card record, the subgrades and slab images. A gold label is reserved for Pristine 10 — a 10 in all four subgrades — separating it from a Gem Mint 10 that got there without perfect subgrades.

Where the slab sells

Early. Slabs exist and turn up on eBay, and every one of them can be checked against a public cert page, which is more than several established graders offer. What does not exist yet is a resale record: nothing shows what the market pays for a GSG slab relative to the same card in another holder.

Turnaround

Public submissions have not opened. GSG says it is validating capacity first and is taking email addresses for a notification list.

The slab and the label

Subgrades: Four, on the label

Example of a Granite State Grading graded slab, frontExample of a Granite State Grading graded slab, back
Label, front
Close view of the front label on a Granite State Grading slab
Label, back
Close view of the back label on a Granite State Grading slab

Example slab shown for reference, not a card the editor owns.

Who it's for

  • Condition Documentation
  • Personal Collection

Nothing to decide yet — submissions are not open. When they are, the case for GSG is documentation: four subgrades on the label, a public cert page and published inspection imagery, on a card you are keeping rather than selling.

The D is about the resale market, which has no record of this holder at all, not about the grading.

Known concerns

Three, and none of them is a closure. Public submissions have never opened, so there is no published price, no turnaround anyone can hold them to, and no service record to judge — only the grading itself.

The grading is AI-assisted, which is the pitch and also the open question: consistency claims cannot be checked from outside, and the resale market has not yet priced whether it trusts them. And the abbreviation GSG belongs to Gold Standard Grading on this site as well, a far larger European grader, so a slab or listing marked GSG needs checking before either company is assumed.

History

A New Hampshire company trading as GSG, based at 2 Washington Street in Dover and operating since 2024.

Cards are being certified and are appearing on eBay, with cert numbers running into the 1200s, but public submissions have never opened: the company says it is completing capacity validation first and is running a notification list until then. An earlier version of this entry recorded the company as defunct on the strength of a similarly named domain that now redirects to a gambling site. That was wrong. The live operation is at gsgrading.com and is publishing new certs.

On the Wire

Nothing on the Wire about Granite State Grading yet. It fills in as stories are reported.

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