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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2078503, member: 66&quot;]One thing that Tom didn&#039;t mention was that the ANA board initially only approved the grading service as an experiment to last six months.&nbsp; Like he did say they didn&#039;t really expect a lot of submissions for grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple other things that he didn&#039;t mention was that The initial drive to create the authentication service began in 1968 pushed by Virgil Hancock.&nbsp; In 1970 he was joined by Abe Kosoff and they kicked off a fund raising drive among the dealers and major collectors to raise the $50,000 they needed to start the authentication service, then called ANAAT.&nbsp; Apparently there wasn&#039;t a lot of interest because it took over two years to raise the start up capital.</p><p><br /></p><p>One small discrepancy,&nbsp; To says the authentication service began in June of 1972 and I have it starting in April of that year.&nbsp; Possibly it started in April and the first submissions were in June.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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