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Posted By: Max Weder

If I remember looking at comic grading, don't the comic grading companies offer slabbed comic in restored grades? As a person who has had many dust jackets restored for my own personal collection, there are many situations in which I would prefer to have a card or other ephemera restored for my own sense of personal aesthetics.

The problem is when the restoration is not disclosed to a subsequent purchaser. Wouldn't restored grading deal in part with this, and allow the marketplace to adjust to the taboo? I realize this wouldn't eliminate the problem for those who wish to use professional restoration services to deceive, but it might otherwise give the honest person some market value in their restored slabbed card? How have the grading companies reacted in the past to such a suggestion?

Max (preferring his books and his few cards to remain unslabbed)