OpinionBy Cardboard JournalBGS / Beckett Grading Services
Golden's slab looks like Beckett's. Only one of them travels.
Buy the card, not the holder — and price a Golden slab as a nice case.
At the size a card appears in a phone photo, the two labels are hard to separate. Beckett's mark is a B inside a laurel wreath. Golden's is a G inside a laurel wreath. Both sit on a gold field with black type and a large grade in the top right corner. We are not claiming anyone set out to deceive: laurel wreaths are common furniture in this hobby, and nobody outside a company can see its intentions. The effect is what a buyer deals with, and the effect is that a thumbnail does not tell you which one you are looking at.