Posted By:
JimCrandellPaul and Barry,
If I understand you arguments correctly, a large part of it is that people got away with restoring and altering cards in the past by soaking them, some or many of these have found there way into graded company holders, there is no way to detect if they have been soaked so we might as well continue on with the altering of cards in this manner.
Sorry but I don't buy it. Just because alteration by soaking or removing creases or whatever has occurred in the past is no reason it should go on today. I come back to my argument that it is just wrong to alter these historical treasures and they should always be maintained in the same condition in which they were found.
Jim