How do you think it all shakes out
I would say the card restoration/alteration business is way, way more widespread than we could guess.
In the SCD in 2008, they interviewed Dick Towle of Gone With The Stain. He said in 2008 that they had worked on 15,000 to 18,000 cards. That is over 10 years ago. They said that they started their company in 1993.
And that is only one company. I'm sure there are others out there.
They claim all their work is undetectable to card grading companies. I am sure many, many of those cards have been graded. Hopefully, cards that they worked on won't start disintegrating one day.
Until new technologies that can detect their work are discovered, I don't know what the grading companies can do
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