Slabbed and altered vintage cards

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Posted By: Dr.Koos

...and assessing of restoration. No doubt that whoever is doing the grading for the major slabbing companies knows their stuff when it comes to telling a 5 from a 6 but how many of them have the HANDS-ON EXPERTISE that someone like BRIAN DANIELS has in restoration techniques and what to look for since he IS a Master Restorer (not taking that away from him) and KNOWS HOW TO SLIDE THEM RIGHT BY THE BEST OF GRADING SERVICES. In Vegas, the guys they put in the rafters to watch all the players at the gaming tables are ex-cheats, well versed with practical hands-on expertise in the art of cheating the house in hundreds of ways..that's why they're hired. To watch for others that exhibit tendencies that THEY have used to cheat the house. SAME THING APPLIES: to grading services! If the grader can't stretch and whack a card and MAKE IT look NORMAL, how is he going to catch ALL of them that have had that done? Someone like Brian WOULD be able to catch 99.9 out of 100 because he CAN DO IT HIMSELF and knows ALL of the earmarks. The same goes for ANY type of alteration. A grader, who sits in solitary judgement on a card SHOULD be able to assign a grade AND rule out positively, any alteration whatsoever because there is every reason to believe that the card slabbed will remain housed for all time and in most cases won't be given a second thought having been "blessed" with the grading service's benediction.
Look at the autographed Ruth card in lot: 1854502614 . PASSED by PSA/DNA and a BLATANT ERROR in judgement. ASK RICHARD SIMON what he thinks of that signature that is literally SCREAMING, "FAKE..FAKE...I was signed less than a dozen years ago...FAKE!". If they make mistakes as obvious as this one, how many others have they made? An ink spectromity test on this signature wouldn't even read 20+, let alone 50+, and I'd bet BIG BIG money on it!