Comments: 1940 Playball PSA 5 - that was the first portrait for Faber! I eventually upgraded to a PSA 6 (Nov, 2004). In February, 2005 I went a little crazy and bought the huge group of '40 Playball cards off the Mickey's Sportscards website listed below - including an upgrade to a PSA 7:

I also owned a 1931 W517 issue (first a VG raw example and later a SGC 60 in Oct 2003). I purchased this W590 card raw from Kit Young in March, 2006 and sold all the others. The example above displays NM but received the Authentic designation by PSA due to being hand-cut. I've been looking for a better example ever since and have had zero luck. Tough card as very few show up.

UPDATE: On October 4th 2018, I randomly searched (W590) (Frisch) (PSA, SGC) on eBay and a SGC 82 example turned up.  I couldn’t believe it.  Just 12 hours earlier I had won another card for my collection – a 1948 Swell Feller PSA 7.  It’s been a slow buying year for cards but I was on some kind of hot streak.  This Frisch was the first ever example of the strip card I had found with a number grade in 20 years of searching auction houses and eBay offerings.  Previously, I had only seen “Authentic” examples due to the borders being a little too narrow.  After checking the SGC Population report a total of eleven Frisch cards have been graded and all but this one had been slabbed "Authentic". I guess this single example met the minimum card size criteria for a "82 or 6.5" designation.  The purchase price was fair, I clicked the “Buy It Now” option and the card was mine! Here's the card:

UPDATE: In February 2022, the following listing appeared on eBay...

As of 2018, PSA had never assigned a number rating to a single W590 Frisch card. But, sometime in those four years someone had submitted this card and received a coveted NM-MT 8 grade - the first and highest graded example. In fact, out of the total 561 W590 cards submitted to PSA, only 13 cards have been given a "8" rating while 2 cards were deemed "9's.

I felt like the price was a little steep but reached out to the seller anyway. Unfortunately, he wanted the auction to run it's course. I stressed out watching the card run through two separate 10-day auction cycles but nobody bid. A few weeks later I tried reaching out again, and made some progress. We discussed a reasonable price and reached an agreement. I still think I overpaid slightly but it was significantly less than the original asking price. And...I was the proud owner of yet another "Highest Graded Example" - a beautiful NM-MT 8 !!!