I reached out to PSA for information on whether they can grade/authenticate or just custom encapsulate this card. 3 weeks and no reply.
Does anyone know if PSA can authenticate any signed Pokemon gear? Or is it just comfirmed/official baseball/basketball/football cards they do.
Card is supposedly signed by Takumi Akabane (co-creator of the pokemon TCG) nice novelty item for the collection if it can’t be sent 
pic below:
They can’t grade or authenticate it.
Becketts has been recently but not sure what the requirements are.
That is a beautiful card…I want it.
Well that’s to be expected. I’ve no way to prove to them its a legit signature anyway.
i will attempt to bribe my ‘handler’ at PSA with a trip to Disneyland and see how I get on.
Glenn might be able to read and check if it is right? It’s hard to say whether it’s authentic or valuable though.
I think signature collectors are like error collectors. It’s extremely subjective price wise.
Omfg I dont think they have any in Data base so unfourtonatlely I think no but try bgs or a screwdown case
I’m pretty sure you could still get it encapsulated just not with an official grade/authentication on the signature
PSA normally will not custom encap. something that has a copyright on it, such as Pokemon.
I went to a lot of trouble to have my For Position Only cards graded [took about 6 months]. Upon getting both written and verbal confirmation by PSA, I submitted my cards, only to have them graded and then stripped of their grade. before they sent the cards back to Australia [which is about $70 AUD], I managed to get in contact with them and hold my order.
They agreed that the situation was a “tricky one” and I had done everything right in order to get them graded. That said, they were not going to honor what they had stated / written. With that said, the head grader told me that even though custom encap is not for copyright related cards [more for your own hobby cards that you have personally made etc], he would make an exception.
The rules may have changed since then, but that is what I know from 3 months of contact back and forth with PSA.
In order for a signature to be authenticated with PSA, they need multiple signature examples directly from the signer. Since this has not happened in Pokemon, they do not grade or authenticate Pokemon signatures. Beckett/JSA authenticates signatures without examples directly from the signer.
There are exceptions but generally this is not true.
Contact PSA for any updates.
Any Pokemon card that isn’t signed by sugimori or Arita are a bit of a grey area I think, not enough examples of know legit signatures to even compare to.
I think this is an example of what the custom encapsulation looks like, it’s a green border encased by psa. There are standards for this I’m sure, just I remember seeing these once:
Apologies the watermark is not mine… I couldn’t find one without
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This is my authenticated one, you can compare to it. but i have seen another signature of his that looks similar to this one ill have to try and find it.
Thanks for the info! Was looking for a way to authenticate it myself as it’d just be nice to get personal confirmation.