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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3104384, member: 112"]Kurt I have never, ever, denied that grading standards have changed from time to time. I've owned just about every grading book there ever was from Brown and Dunn which was published in '48 I believe, and those since then. And I've written about it many, many times. I've even written many times about how the ANA changed their grading standards in 1987. Which was the first time we ever had 11 MS grades. So it's not them changing that I have a problem with. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I said, I have a problem with the fact that there aren't any written and published grading standards that are actually used ! And that the ones they do use, whatever they are, they change, get even more lenient, every year or so. At least as far as the TPGs go.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it might help if you'd actually pay attention to what I actually say - instead of making claims like you do that I say something completely different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3104384, member: 112"]Kurt I have never, ever, denied that grading standards have changed from time to time. I've owned just about every grading book there ever was from Brown and Dunn which was published in '48 I believe, and those since then. And I've written about it many, many times. I've even written many times about how the ANA changed their grading standards in 1987. Which was the first time we ever had 11 MS grades. So it's not them changing that I have a problem with. As I said, I have a problem with the fact that there aren't any written and published grading standards that are actually used ! And that the ones they do use, whatever they are, they change, get even more lenient, every year or so. At least as far as the TPGs go. So it might help if you'd actually pay attention to what I actually say - instead of making claims like you do that I say something completely different.[/QUOTE]
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