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Julie VognarThe answer covered paper loss ON THE BACK, ROUNDED CORNERS, and what not.
Answer: On the front of a card, I MUCH prefer creases to paper loss. So do the grading companies. The Connor Old Judge in Smolin's auction, which i won, has a big crease that runs all the way across the card at his knees--which are bent, and his hands are on them. You can hardly see it! Nice card.
Square corners are nice, but INFINITELY less important than the picture! (I'm talking about 19th century stuff. I guess we all expect more or less square corners on 20th century stuff).
Paper loss ON THE BACK is only important if there's something ELSE on the back. Like printing, black (Mayos), a cartoon--Old Judges--well, it's nice to see an Old Judge with a clean back. But to make the fuss about clean backs on backless cards that grading companies do--that's just rediculous!