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Marc S.With some issues -- attempts at restoration are quite obvious. Bleaching of 1948 Leaf cards seems to be a very obvious example.
I think that some other issues often have certain idiosyncracies that lend themselves to certain types of restoration. For example -- I have seen numerous 1915 high-grade Cracker Jack cards that were soaked after having been in an album for perhaps 80-85 years...