Is removing something that shouldn't have been there in the first place altering?? The card shouldn't have come with wax stain on it. Little Bobby shouldn't have drawn a fu-manchu mustache on Namath's rookie card way back in 1965. That gob of gunk that someone spilled on the card back in 1956 shouldn't have been on there. I know this is a gray area, and I know some people don't agree with Dick Towle, but he said it best. Removal of something that shouldn't have been there in the first place isn't really altering. Trimming an edge or corner, now that is altering.
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