Beckett Grading Services now grading vintage photos
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Beckett Grading Services has launched an original photograph authentication and grading service.
From news photos, wire photos and movie stills to snapshots, Polaroids and mounted photos from the 1800s, BGS will grade them all. It also will provide a choice between authentication and encapsulation only or slabbing with with a numerical grade. Both services provide the best preservation and presentation capabilities on the market.
BGS will team with noted photograph expert and art historian David Rudd (www.cycleback.com).
For more information, call (972)-448-9188 or visit www.beckett.com/photos
I need a tin type photo graded. What do I do?
@Todd – Please contact a member of the BGS team here: https://www.beckett.com/grading/team
Hello, I have a photograph , which is framed behind glass. The photo is titled “Kaloma” with the year 1914 embossed in the right hand corner. I am interested in selling it and would appreciate any info on how to obtain grading of this photo. Thank you for your time in this matter.
@Gigi – Info on Beckett Grading can be found here: https://www.beckett.com/grading
I would like to know how do you know if a picture is original or worth getting graded any info would be great thanks
@Devin – Info on Beckett Grading can be found at beckett.com/grading
Grading for Sandy Koufax signed photos
I would like to print out photo authentication forms, but all I can find is autograph submission forms. Can you help or send them to me
If you contact Beckett Authentication through this link, they should be able to get you what you need: https://www.beckett-authentication.com/contact-us
Does beckett now authenticate photographs that havent been signed?
I’m looking to possibly have a very rare photo graded, but the link above for David Rudd at cycleback.com is broken or ??