Do you feel the Gretzky party knew the card was sheet cut? Was that fairly common knowlege prior to the 2.8 million bid it realized? If the answer to both of these is "yes", then the market has deemed this type of alteration to be "market acceptable". However, I dont think it will ever be "market acceptable" to re-back a card....especially a card that may not have ever been printed in the first place!
So Jim...if it were your Cobb/RH, would you take all steps needed to validate/dismiss its authenticity? Or would you take the "head buried in the sand" approach?
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