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davidcyclebackOne practical thing of being on the look out for altered cards, and checking
past sales, is that more cards will be being returned for refund from unhappy
buyers. Another thing is that when a seller is discovered to have had a card
professionally restored for the purpose of defrauding collectors, his reputation
will be ruined. Remember, while autograph forgeries can appear out of thin air,
most unrestored 1933 Goudey Lajoies and 1914 Cracker Jacks have been sold once
or more in major auctions that thousands of collectors own catalogs from. If someone's
fraudulantly restoring major cards purchased from the big auction houses, it will
only be time before he's exposed. I bet there is a collector on this board, the
lost soul that he is, that can recite all the sellers of 1914 CJ Mathewsons from
the last three years. And I bet there are collectors who keep record in notebook
or on computer each time a Goudey Lajoie sells and the who/how much/when.