Hi. I saw this
SGC A Shoeless Joe 1915 Cracker Jack card in the Heritage auction (I'm not the consignor and do not know who the consignor is) and it got me thinking...
The card is graded SGC A with impressive eye appeal. The description notes:
"Your first impression is that you are looking at a card at the near-mint level. What we have is a card that has experience professional restoration. It has ben cleaned, trimmed and a small segment of the right edge appears to have paper enhanced and possibly replaced."
Would anything stop the winner from cracking the case and submitting it to PSA or another grader in hopes that one of them will give it a numerical rating commensurate with its NM eye-appeal? Do the grading companies share reports/scans of cards that are not given numerical grades because they were restored/altered? Or are the grading companies all sophisticated enough to catch a restoration project on a card?
Would love to hear some views on this. Thanks.