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Posted By: Bob

George- I feel your pain. I once bought an exmt looking raw E94 Evers card. I wanted to take it out of the hard holder and place it in a sheet and in the course of doing so "snagged" the corner and a large fleck of color disappeared. Arrrggghhhh! From exmt to g/vg in a heartbeat. It may me wonder if the card had perhaps been doctored in some way that made the fleck come off so easily, but since the seller was reputable and I was all thumbs in doing this and not careful, I chalked it up to my ineptitude in card removal and I sold it for a loss. This should not be confused with another raw E94 (Jennings) I bought several years ago, again from a reputable seller, which "exploded" when I removed it from the holder. This time I strongly suspected something fishy but it now resides in an SGC authentic slab and it was a tough color variation so I kept it.
I now am very, very careful when removing caramel cards from hard holders and have them slabbed immediately.
Those E94s are fairly fragile for some reason.
tbob