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Originally Posted by MW1
Ted,
I usually agree with 99% of the things you write but on this issue, I think you're completely wrong. In the last 30 years, I have either heard of or seen in person a significant number of finds and original, untouched collections comprising significant quantities of ungraded NM-MT and even MINT condition T206s. I even encountered a collection that had about 50 T207s that were straight out of packs and, with the exception of centering, were Mint.
The assumption that 8s and 9s in PSA holders are frequently altered is mistaken.
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I am going to go out on a limb and say this could be the accurate assumption. At least for a fair percentage of the higher grade examples.
If you look at the number of tobacco cards in population it's quite a lot. So if you take a tiny fraction and assume they survived high grade status it's not such a stretch. Not every cards fell in the hands of kids I assume. Adults who were the tobacco users couldve just stored these away in a box.