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T206Collector"The fact that the line is there on the bottom third of the card suggests to me that the rest of it appearing to be missing is not a result of a bad scan."
This is not a high resolution scan. As I said, please look at the number "11" in the tab at the top of the grading slab. The two numbers were written by GAI in the same font, but yet one of them looks thinner than the other. Why is that? Did GAI suddenly swith to Arial Wide when making the second 11? No. It's obviously a scan distortion. And that scan distortion will mess with all of the rest of the image in ways which make it look like information is missing.
What I suspect happened is the card was scanned at a very very very slight angle, and the image posted was not of very high quality. Indeed, it had to be a relatively small file size to make it onto ebay. So, information is lost when reducing the file size. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising or strange or bizarre that a thin vertical black line would be missing at the top, but not at the bottom if the card was scanned at a slight angle. Did you ever draw with your computer pain program a diagonal line? Well, likely your line turned out to be a series of vertical and horizontal lines. It's like that. Only here, the image missed one of those vertical lines at the top of your diagonal line. Does that make sense? I'm not explaining myself very well...
Low quality scans are low quality because they reduce information like lines. I believe that's the issue here. Not that the card is missing a line half way down the left side.