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Originally Posted by benjulmag
What this highlights to me is that for items that are not eligible to receive numerical grades (which I assume is the case with this Kimball album page), grading companies should come up with a grade other than an "A". "A" grades have a stigma to them, because they are typically given to items that are either altered or suspected of being compromised in other significant ways. But for items where that is not the case, as with this Kimball page, an "A" grade gives one the false impression something important is wrong with the item.
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It is altered, it was removed from the book it was part of.
Sadly, the entire book including the ribbon used as a binding was in the framed piece this is from. So the book could have easily been reassembled.
But ... Grading.... :-(