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davidcyclebackI'm against removing wrinkes, but won't say it's never okay.
I'm against trimming and other alteration to get a higher grade, but I find it interesting that most Pre-War collectors have an aesthetic view based on what a Pre-War card looks like in 1999 not 1909. The T206 with stains and worn corners and a crease is not the way it orignally looked. It originally looked closer to a PSA9 or well restored card. This aesthetic bias is probably because none of us collected the cards when they were new, and only ever remember them being the proverbial 1999 versions. I'm certain that our athestic views, including whether a worn stained card should be restored to new look, would be different if we collected T206s in 1909.